MPX5098715: The speedway in full swing, November 1952 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098716: Mrs. Annie Buck gets a demonstration, March 1959 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098721: This Fokker F.VIIA Princess Xenia, which had been used on the abortive transatlantic flight by Captain MacIntosh in 1927, is seen here landing at Croydon Airport on its return from a record-breaking flight from India to the UK in September, 1928 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098740: The Dornier Do X, the largest, heaviest and most powerful flying boat in the world when it was produced in 1929 by the Dornier company of Germany, 3rd November 1930 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098754: Orphan boy training to be a cobbler, December 1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098759: Young couples perform the new dance craze "The Creep" at the Royal Theatre of Dancing in Tottenham, November 1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098780: Rod Stewart and Faces. Concert in USA, April 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098789: Rod Stewart and Faces. Concert in USA, April 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098793: The wreckage of a fully-laden passenger Viscount aeroplane after it had overshot the runway at Rochford Airport and ended tail up on the railway line which runs alongside the airport. Firemen and emergency services clear the way for passengers to exit the plane. October 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098797: Ronnie Wood, guitarist with Rod Stewart and The Faces. Tuning his guitar before concert in USA, April 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098804: Ronnie Wood, guitarist with Rod Stewart and The Faces. Concert in USA, April 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098825: Rod Stewart and Faces. Concert in USA, April 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098835: Karate Machine: Man/Machine/Unusual/Humour: Kung Fu man Baron Omidi tries out the new Karate machine at the distributors factory in North West London, February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098859: Rod Stewart and Faces. Concert in U.S.A, March 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098861: Karate Machine: Man/Machine/Unusual/Humour: Kung Fu man Baron Omidi tries out the new Karate machine at the distributors factory in North West London, February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098863: The half scale model of the Golden Hind in Plymouth Harbour during a rehearsal for Navies week, 1st May 1945 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098876: Woolwich Ferry seen here crossing the River Thames. Circa 1925 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098901: Jogger-nauts: John Robinson sports writer with Colin Taylor jogging in Battersea Park, May 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099507: Mountain Rescue Dog Team seen here high on the Cumbrian hills. Circa 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099516: Youth Culture Teddy boy Tony Reuter leader of the Elephant Boys gang 1955 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099518: The ship 'Monarch of Bermuda' a magnificent luxury liner built by Vickers Armstrong Ltd, Walker on Tyne, England, UK, 24th May 1947 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099529: Mountain Rescue Dogs Two of the Cumbrian mountain rescue dogs seen here completing an exercise by finding a lost hiker on the high fells , Circa 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099541: The tanker British Builder has returned to her birthplace in Sunderland to have a new crankshaft fitted, c. 1950 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099546: The Ship Monarch of Bermuda now named Arkadia before her departure from the Tyne, c. 1930 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099551: The oil-tanker Esso Portsmouth undergoes surgery at Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson shipyard in Wallsend, River Tyne, c. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099575: Dominating the skyline over the River Wear is this crane, built as part of the modernisation scheme being carried out at J L Thompson's North Sands shipyard, Sunderland. It is more than 100ft high, c. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099711: The badly fire damaged San Demetrio after being re-boarded by a skeleton crew who then managed to sail the tanker across the rest of the Atlantic braving bad weather and the U-boats and after seven days reached the waters off Ireland from where they were escorted on to the mouth of the Clyde, docking on 16 November 1945 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099771: Dogs searching amongst the glass outside a bakers shop for buns in Elgin Terrace, Maida Vale, after an attack from a German V1 flying bomb. 23rd June 1944 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099775: Paul McCartney arrives with 6 year old Heather, daughter of Linda by her previous marriage, March 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099776: Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips escaped an apparent kidnap attempt in which four people were wounded, 23rd May 1974 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099783: Surrounded by pressmen, police and fans, the bride and groom, Paul and Linda leave Marylebone register office, March 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099786: Mother holding her baby outside her home on Bethnal Green, London following an enemy V2 rocket attack. 8th February 1945 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099791: Soldiers gathering potatoes from farmland in East Anglia, whilst one of the boys sits and keep a look out for German planes who try to interfere, armed with a machine gun. 27th August 1942 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099802: Pictured on their "honeymoon" bed newly weds. John Lennon and Yoko talking to Donald Zec about their seven day event at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel, March 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099626: The cable ship Edward Wilshaw which was officially handed over at Newcastle Quayside by shipbuilders Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson to Cable and Wireless Limited, c. 1940 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099650: Ford Prefects and Fordson tractors seen here on a Dagenham quayside, awaiting loading on to the MV Cape Rodney, November 1949 / Bridgeman Images