MPX5103660: Smithford Street looking towards Fleet Street. St. John's church can just be made out on the top left of the photo. This postman is struggling to decide what to do with the mail for businesses that were raized to the ground during the Coventry blitz of 14th November 1940 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5103688: The Zeppelin L71 seen here over flying London on her way to Pulham in Norfolk was from a new class of "super" Zeppelin with the intention of having the ability to bomb New York. The Germans had already proved that a lengthened Zeppelin could fly over 5,000 miles, as with the famed L59 and the flight over Africa. L 71 was handed over to the British Government as war reparations at the end of the first world war 29th June 1920 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5103344: It was announced today that Cockney actress Barbara Windsor is to play the part of Marie Lloyd in a musical called "Sing a Rude Song". Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees, who is 20, will be playing her third husband, a jockey who won the 1910 Derby. The musical will open at the Greenwich Theatre in February. Maurice will have to shave off his beard and have a drastic haircut and take dancing lessons. January 1970 / Bridgeman Images