MPX5158245: It Might come true! If, as the popular song says Wishing will make it so the dreams of these girls should come true in such a setting. The ancient Irish Wishing Seat has been transplanted in Primley, near Paignton, Devon, and for a few pence, you can sit in it and make your wish, but no money is refunded if results are not forthcoming. The girl on the left has a brother in Merchant Navy, and the girl on the right has her husband in the Middle East, so it's not difficult to imagine what their wishes are unless their wishes take in the world issues of today. August 1943 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5158338: Eustace Rogers builds coracles but the demand for this ancient form of transport has fallen in the past few hundred years. So 52 year old Eustace - the last of his kind in England - has switched from the very old to the very new and taken a job at the huge power station at Ironbridge in Shropshire. He commutes, of course, by coracle - three miles on the River Seven. Its ideal for reflective lunch breaks and there are no no parking problems either. March 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5159742: Arthur Hutt VC, 1889- 1954, English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was the first person born in Coventry to be awarded the Victoria Cross. He was 28 years old, and a private in the 1/7th Battalion of The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, British Army during the First World War at the battle of Passchendaele when awarded the VC on 4th October 1917. Pictured, Corporal Arthur Hunt at Savings meeting, Circa 1920 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images