MPX5138066: Guinness Flats in Stamford Hill, London, have got their own war factory. In the little club room hut behind the estate housewives are busy all day long making torch batteries. They pop upstairs to get the kids dinner and then back to work again. October 1943 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5138077: Station Road, Hayes, London, which has been highlight as dangerous to pedestrians and prone to traffic congestion, c. 1931 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5138081: 117 Amersham High Street, Buckinghamshire, the former police station seen here in 1931 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5138091: One of the new Merchant Navy Class Engines having its front lamp cleaned by the engine driver at Waterloo Station May 1943 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5138095: Darlington Yard High Street Amersham, Buckinghamshire, c. 1931 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136907: Elderly woman rummages in a dustbin for food under the banner One State! One People! One Fuehrer! The caption reads and One Stomach Ache 15th January 1940 (b/w photo), Zec, Philip (1909-1983) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136908: Traffic jam on Malham Moor, North Yorkshire. September 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136915: British troops in Borneo. 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136921: N.A.T.O exercises in Norway. February 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136922: N.A.T.O exercises in Norway. February 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136924: Firebug, 22nd January 1940 (b/w illustration), Zec, Philip (1909-1983) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136925: Stevie Wonder musical prodigy who at the age of only 13 years old has packed the Olympic Theatre in Paris, France for the last 2 weeks, playing a variety of instruments & singing, pictured 27th December 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136929: John Cleese upon his election as Rector to St Andrews University. From 1970 to 1973, Cleese served as rector of the University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. 20th April 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136934: Vulcan Bomber taking off. 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136939: In the Sacred Name of Democracy, 24th January 1940 (b/w illustration), Zec, Philip (1909-1983) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136949: Savile Row in Mayfair, Central London, c. 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136956: Harold MacMillan talks with Andrei Gromyko and Mr Rashidov, chairman and deputy chairman of the Praesidium of the Uzbek Supreme Soviet. At the table in Moscow. 25th February 1959 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136959: You Poor Sap!, 12th February 1940 (b/w illustration), Zec, Philip (1909-1983) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136962: Prague, Czechoslovakia. End of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. A Russian tank patrols in Wenselas Square as locals walk by. August 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136965: York Minster General View. 3rd April 1961 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136969: Prague, Czechoslovakia. End of the Prague Spring, a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. Czech children playing on a burnt out Russian tank. August 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136974: Paul McCartney singer with The Beatles at his St John's Wood house with his pet dog June 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136977: York Minster Choir boys. 3rd April 1961 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136980: HMS Porpoise (S01), a Porpoise-class submarine of the Royal Navy. 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136981: Aerial views of Sheffield, 17th August 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136982: Views of Goathland, North Yorkshire. September 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136994: Actors David McCallum (left) and Anthony Valentine on the film set during filming of 'Colditz', the BBC TV series. David McCallum played the part of Flight Lieutenant Simon Carter and Anthony Valentine played Major Horst Mohn, 2nd in command. Ealing Studios, London, 7th September 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136995: Russian Echo II nuclear submarine seen here on the surface in the North Atlantic. The cruise missile carrying submarine was damage following a collision with another Soviet warship during a naval exercise in the Caribbean. 25th September 1975 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5136999: St Ethelburga-the-Virgin within Bishopsgate Church, London. 21st June 1933 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5137000: MiG-21PFL (Nato codename Fishbed) fighter bombers seen here at a undisclosed airbase on the Russian Steppes. Circa August 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5137001: Part of the history of Guisborough is being given new life. The old-fashioned cobbles, are being re-laid only a short distance from the towns market cross. Work was recently done by Langbaurgh Borough Council to raise a section of footpath near the town hall, with the sim of preventing vehicular access to Bakehouse Square, where there are now some new shops. Pictured working on the area between the town hall and the Seven Stars public house are Mr Kim Fredlich-Tinkler (left) and Mr Mike Willett. 7th February 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5137002: Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev the fourth First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, following the removal of Nikita Khrushchev in 1964. Comrade Leonid Ilyich led the Communist Party until his death in November 1982 . 1st August 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5137006: 1959 Jack Brabham wins the 'Kentish 100' from Graham Hill and Stirling Moss at Brands Hatch 29th August 1959 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5138107: Kansai Yamamoto, Fashion Designer, The Portobello Hotel, London, 28th May 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5138115: Kansai Yamamoto, Fashion Designer, The Portobello Hotel, London, 28th May 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5138117: Crash test dummies being examined at a Ford test plant 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images