MPX5127658: The Sunday Sun's Junior Dance Festival at the Mayfair Ballroom in Newcastle, the competition ran over three Sundays in January 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127660: Disc Jockey Jimmy Saville pictured with Liverpool pop group The Beatles at Finsbury Park Astoria in London. The Beatles and Saville appeared together on the first ever Top Of The Pops programme on New Year's Day, 1964. left to right are Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Jimmy Saville, John Lennon and George Harrison, 11th January 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127664: The Jack O'Clubs Sunday Sun Road Show at the Bedlington Social Club in Northumberland featuring North East comedian Bobby Thompson 28 April 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127667: The finals of the North of England Juvenile Jazz Band Championships at Brough Park Greyhound Stadium in Byker, Newcastle on 8th October 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127670: The finals of the North of England Juvenile Jazz Band Championships at Brough Park Greyhound Stadium in Byker, Newcastle on 8th October 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127672: Grand Prix motorcycle road racer Phil Read sits on an Norton Villiers Triumph Bonneville 750 cc motorbike with NVT chairman Dennis Johnson (right) looking on. 9th August 1975 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127674: The finals of the North of England Juvenile Jazz Band Championships at Brough Park Greyhound Stadium in Byker, Newcastle on 8th October 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127675: The finals of the North of England Juvenile Jazz Band Championships at Brough Park Greyhound Stadium in Byker, Newcastle on 8th October 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127677: The finals of the North of England Juvenile Jazz Band Championships at Brough Park Greyhound Stadium in Byker, Newcastle on 8th October 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127679: The finals of the North of England Juvenile Jazz Band Championships at Brough Park Greyhound Stadium in Byker, Newcastle on 8th October 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127690: A hearse being used in one of the funeral scenes in the film Ned Kelly, being filmed in Bugendore, Australia, 23rd May 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127007: Former firefighter, Kieran McCoy, right, and Carl Miller, one of the people he helps, 16th June 2011 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127026: Pop singers Chad & Jeremy. 26th October 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127028: A unique way to darn socks by using a light bulb to help illuminated the hole that needs darning. 3rd March 1948 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127031: Aerial view of fire at Woolworths departent store in central Manchester, Tuesday 8th May 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127033: Coal - Miners - Miners in the lamp room at Merthyr Vale Colliery - 20th February 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127040: Morning after fire gutted Woolworths departent store in central Manchester on Tuesday 8th May 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127043: The Queen is presented with a record by singer Vera Lynn. 26th November 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127044: Tommy Cooper and wife Gwen, pictured together at home, February 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127046: The Queen and Princess Anne walk barefoot through a Mosque in Kuala Lumpur. 28th Feb 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127048: Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the British Communist Party, speaking to large crowds gathered below the podium. September 1941 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127072: A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II with the artist Joe King. 25th January 1972 (b/w photo), King, Joseph Wallace (Vinciata) (1911-96) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127079: The Queen pictured leaving Buckingham Palace before the birth of her third child. 12th February 1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127081: Princess Elizabeth launching HMS Eagle at Belfast 19th March 1946 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127093: A North American Harvard dual control training aircraft passes over a Supermarine Spitfire XIV on the ground at RAF Ouston. 31/05/1947 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127104: Royal Tour of Canada. Ceremony to cut the first sod of turf for a new Cathedral at Frobisher Bay. 7th July 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127115: Mr. Ray Buckton, the ASLEF General Secretary tries the driver's seat in British Rail's new High Speed train just before it left King's Cross for Darlington on 2nd August 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127125: The supertanker Esso Hibernia being fitted out after her launch on the River Tyne at Swan Hunter on November 19 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127129: On Tuesday, August 13 1974 the Evening Chronicle ran a story from North Shields which highlighted the dreadful conditions of the Gardner Street area of the town, 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127131: Pictue show two different pop groups both named 'The Fortunes' meeting at the Bull Ring Centre in Birmingham to come to an agreement over their names. Left is the Fortunes led by Rod Allen and righ The fortunes who are to be called 'Danny King and the Jesters' 24th October 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127132: Pop group 'The Move' outside the law courts. 6th September 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127140: Shop named ' I was Kitchener's Valet '. 21st July 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127151: The last Riverside Line train waiting for passengers at Willington Station on 20th July 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127165: Joanna Dunham and Alan Bates in Cafe de Artistes in Chelsea getting the feel of a Beatnik's lifestyle for the ABC play, 'Three on a gas ring' in which they are starring. 14th December 1957 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127176: Elisabeth Sladen with Jon Pertwee standing in the courtyard of BBC Television Centre after it was announced that she will play Sarah Jane Smith, a bright young journalist on a woman's magazine who becomes the Doctor's assistant in the new Doctor Who series. 26th June 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127699: Adam Faith greets Eurovision Song Contest Winner Sandie Shaw, who won the 1967 contest with her UK Entree 'Puppet on a String', pictured arriving at London Heathrow Airport April 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images