MPX5071083: You get there quicker by Tube, they say. August 1971 P012646 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5071095: 3 yr old makes his bow and takes the prize. Richard Hollows aged 3 competed in a children's entertainment competition at Parliament Hill Fields and by his clever rendering of nursery rhymes won the prize. He came up alone and took his turn with 16 other competitors, and insisted on the mike being held in the correct position by the L.C.C. Uncle Jingles. He was by far the youngest and least perturbed competitor. August 1947 P012165 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5071097: Santa Claus comes early for 14 month old Patrick Flood, as he plays with the dumped games, while his mother Mrs. Juddy Flood, recovers some of the games from the back entrance to her home in Catford. November 1969 Z10520 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5071121: Free Palestine demonstration in London. Police arrest one demonstrator after a scuffle in Kensington High Street as the "Free Palestine" march passed towards its finish in Queens Gate. November 1969 Z10558 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5071122: Miss World the beauty championship of the world is approaching fast. Among the preparations, is the necessity to select chaperones who will look after the gorgeous girls of "Miss World". Line-up from left to right of six of the thirteen chaperones, Miss Carol Foster (22), Miss Susan Dixon (22), Miss Annette Middleton (27), Mrs. Vivienne Webb (27) Miss Diane McLeod (22) and Miss Diane Lewis (26). November 1969 Z10577-001 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5071127: John Pulman in play while Albert Brown watches. December 1949 P012449 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5071136: A young girl stroking a donkey / Bridgeman Images

MPX5071159: Scottish singer Moira Anderson at the London Palladium during the Royal Variety show rehearsals / Bridgeman Images

MPX5071167: World War II: Normandy Invasion. Madeleine Lowel seen here sewing a button on to a soldiers trousers. August 1944 P012301 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5071180: North East Coast Trawlermen heave up the nets in North Sea and all hands go to this in hope that that it will be a record catchfishi. May 1942 P012254 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070402: Stalin a young gelding who is one of the Queen's unwanted horses, has been given a reprieve and an attempt to re-train him is about to begin. November 1969 Z11167 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070403: World War II: Shipping. The Newcastle Collier Sheaf Crest Struck a mine and sunk off the East Coast today. February 1942 P012335 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070431: Fishing Fleet helps the Navy.. One good turn deserves another and here is seen small boat leaving minesweeper in North Sea on way the fishing trawler to accept some baskets of fish for the crew. Just a little appreciation for the men who sweep away the drifting mines and make the North Sea safer for their Fishing colleagues. May 1942 P012256 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070454: The shoot at Camberley, Surrey, started early today to exterminate all wild life on the common where the rabied dog is thought to have been before it was caught. A member of the shoot carries on his back a plastic bag containing the dead wildlife. October 1969 Z10422-015 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070466: World War II: Normandy Invasion. A British soldier helps a French girl to mend a puncture. August 1944 P012300 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070474: The "Three Degrees" who will tpp the bill at a Mountbatten Gold Evening to Drury Lane seen here aboard HMS Belfast. Circa 1979 P012510 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070478: The "Miss World" contestants arriving at Heathrow Airport to take part in the "Miss World" competition . Miss Malta, Mary Brincat at the airport (white fur coat). November 1969 Z11163-014 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070503: Costa business. For every British ex-patriate that has descended on the Spanish Mainland to seek their fortune in business and succeeded, at least a dozen have failed.These are some of the lucky ones. The "Rabbie Burns" bar in the full swing in Llorret De Mar. June 1974 P012647 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070510: The "Miss World" contestants are arriving at Heathrow Airport to take part in the "Miss World" competition. Pictured at the airport, "Miss France" Suzanne Angly (boots). November 1969 Z11163-008 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070530: A British Millitary Hospital being handed over to the American Forces. January 1944 P012286 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070543: The "Miss World" contestants arriving at Heathrow Airport to take part in the "Miss World" competition. Miss Malta, Mary Brincat at the airport (white fur coat). November 1969 Z11163-005 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070555: The "Miss World" contestants arriving at Heathrow Airport to take part in the "Miss World" competition. (left to right) Miss Sweden, Miss Denmark, and Miss Finland pictured at Heathrow. November 1969 Z11163-002 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070579: Helping to wash the smalls. Ann Dowling aged 4 and Pauline Carey aged 2 1/2, have found a job they really like. They have seen the maid washing the bibs, knickers and overalls at the Hampstead Day Nursery where they attend, and they have been allowed to try their hand with the bibs as a play game. So keen and efficient have they become that these little washerwomen are allowed to do all the bibs, and now they want to do more knickers, but Matron limits their work to 1 hour daily. They are economical with the soap and need no machine to do the wringing out. August 1947 P012147 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070326: Children at play on Bridlington sands are thrilld at the sight of the RAF helicopter swooping over the beach, and a man is swiftly lowered to the beach. They little realise that what they are seeing is a practise for a rescue which might save one of their lives. This is a rare sight, for rescue helicopters do not normally land survivors on the beach except in emergency. July 1960 P012688 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070382: Rugby League Championship Final. Dewsbury v. Wigan at Maine road, Manchester. Egan the Wigan captain with the cup is carried in triumph by his cheering team mates after their victory over Dewsbury. June 1947 P012549 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070386: The shoot at Camberley, Surrey, started early today to exterminate all wild life on the common where the rabied dog is thought to have been before it was caught. Two dead foxes lie together on the ground. October 1969 Z10422-007 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070389: Entertainment Television Cartoons Humour. Walt Disney characters who are travelling round the country, today left their van at Watford Junction and travelled to Euston by train. As Winnie the Pooh was too fat to enter the normal passenger carriage, they has to make the journey in the guards van. On arrival at Euston they were met by the station manager's shorthand typists, 19 year old twins, Diana and her sister Susan Wheatley, (left to right) Winnie the Pooh, Susan in the arms of Heffalump Tigger, and Diana Wheatley. November 1969 Z11187 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070803: Lucky the Orphan foal. "Lucky", the Tiny orphan foal nearly died when he lost his mother, but a baby's bottle and the company of a friendly little donkey, saved his life during the Whitsun Holiday. June 1960 M4351-005 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070809: The happy Daily Mirror family: The Fry's have lived in their own home at Woodlands Park, Bexley, Kent. For four and a half years. They have done all the contemporary decorating inside themselves. Mr. Richard Fry aged 37, a commercial artist, and his wife 27 year old Marion, take the Mirror every day. They have two children, Tony aged 3 1/2 and Beverly aged 7 1/2 months. May 1960 M4346-001 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070815: Southend beach (crowds). June 1960 M4333 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070820: The happy Daily Mirror family: The Fry's have lived in their own home at Woodlands Park, Bexley, Kent. For four and a half years. They have done all the contemporary decorating inside themselves. Mr. Richard Fry aged 37, a commercial artist, and his wife 27 year old Marion, take the Mirror every day. They have two children, Tony aged 3 1/2 and Beverly aged 7 1/2 months. May 1960 M4346-009 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070829: Woman outdoors posing wearing a mini dress. November 1969 Z10756-004 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070849: Car Park: Renault Cars: Pictures show some of the 3 to 4 thousand Renault Cars, parked in Southampton Docks. June 1960 M4354-002 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070855: Islington North By Election Micheal O'Hallorah with his wife Stella after the election. October 1969 Z10457 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070856: Matthew Ives, timed by his sister Sally, 11, eating his way to a world record by consuming 12 oranges weighing 33/4 lbs in 4 Minutes 52 Seconds. / Bridgeman Images

MPX5070869: Whitsun British Games at White City, London. Athletics. June 1960 M4306-009 / Bridgeman Images