MPX5103756: Demand for Triumph motor cycles in Coventry is booming despite the blockade at the firm's Meriden plant where 2,500 completed machines are being held back. Dealers report that demand has rocketed in Coventry ever since Norton Villiers Triumph announced they were to close the Meriden works. This photo shows some of the hundreds of Triumph motor cycles - many of them ready for the road - held up inside the blockaded Meriden plant. 19th October 1973 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5103953: The source of the attraction was the Radio One disc jockey, Emperor Rosko, who opened the fashion shop. More than 500 girls turned up within minutes of Roskos arrival. The crowd was swelled by the one-day closure of South Shields schools by the council workers strike, October 23 1970 / Bridgeman Images