MPX5091023: Eva Haralsteed, ex girl friend of soccer star George Best is looking for work, but the Home Office want to know more about her future plans before they will consider her application for a work permit, December 1969 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5091032: Belgium. German invasion. Scene in Louvain after a German raid. 20th May 1940 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5091038: Eva Haralsteed, ex girl friend of soccer star George Best is looking for work, but the Home Office want to know more about her future plans before they will consider her application for a work permit, December 1969 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5091059: Smoke rises from the town of Brunei in British North Borneo after an attack by RAAF Beaufighters and Liberators as they give air support before the landings of Australian troops on the ground July 1945 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5091068: A woman fixes her matress and pillows on the top bunk of her bed as she prepares for a nights sleep in an air raid shelter during the blitz in London November 1940 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089280: Woman Model with pillows in the shape of man and child. January 1968 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089289: Woman Model with pillows in the shape of man and child. January 1968 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089424: The old dragon prepares for its greatest test. Dragon Rapide G-AJGS being prepared for its transatlantic journey. July 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089442: Good Morning Officer, Won't Be A Minute: A policeman keeps a careful watch as a helicopter hovers low over London's Belgravia. The helicopter dropped in to hoist three giant generators on to the roof of the Carlton Towers Hotel. With a mammoth crane the operation would have taken three days and caused chaotic traffic jams. The airlift on Sunday morning (30-9-73) took just twelve minutes and no one got a parking ticket. October 1973 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089463: Schneider Trophy Race 1931. The Supermarine Rolls-Royce Seaplane S.6.B. which obtained the Schneider trophy for Britain seen here during testing on The Solent. September 1931 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089604: Sport: Table Tennis Championship: Johny Leach of England. November 1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089697: Transport: Cars: A Hillman imperial estate car. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089727: Harry Secombe in the summer show "Secombe Here." withthe singer Ruby Murray. 20, from London. June 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089733: Singer Valerie Masters appearing at the Empire Theatre, Newcastle. June 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089745: Cadets in class - training to become police officers at the Northumberland Police Training School, Morpeth where Sergeant Alan Miller gets his point across, c.1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089755: Mrs. Connor of The Black Horse Inn, Barlow, County Durham with the chess set that is very popular in their pub, c.1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089782: Entertainment Pantomime: Appearing in their first show 'Robinson Crusoe' in Liverpool are identical twins Leila (left) and Valerie (right) Croft of Victoria, London. They are 16 years old. December 1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089801: The striking Mrs. Mopps, or cleaners, of Sunderland Civic Centre picketing outside the building while non union supervisors were hard at work inside cleaning it, c.1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089819: Police officer Ian Proud shows off his swimming cups, along with police team colleagues (from left) Robin Trounson, Ian Hall and Stewart Parkes, c.1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089822: British Ambassador to Italy arrives in Rome. Sir Henry Ashley Clarke. November 1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089845: Forming the shape of an arrow a group of police officers ready for duty, c.1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089860: The two and a half ton of Elephant, Patho to be precise, gets her behind legs in the air and balances, but four year old Hilary Yelding feels just a little above of that giant foot will help to steady a little - but then of course she is the daughter of the ringmaster of Bertram Mills Circus so no wonder she is trying to be helpful. Training at winter quarters of Bertram Mills Circus, Ascot, Berkshire. November 1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089034: Motor car racing at Goodwood, Cars on the starting grid before the race, June 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089046: Eton Celebrations. 19 year old Georgina Scott from Chelsea wearing tall hat with silk attached at back pictured at Eton this weekend during the College celebrations June 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089133: The Nutrai Ibex at the Thompson Zoo. June 1934 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089190: Yet another brave British attempt to influence mankind's onward march ended in a Watery Grave, marked by a sad circle of bubbles Nightclub "bouncer" Perry Whincup tried the impossible...and failed. Perry, 27, a non-swimmer, soon found that he was also a non-flyer as he attemped to soar across the River Nene to win a prize of £5 worth of groceries a week for life. March 1971 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089199: The Birdmen and women of Selsey: The big splashdown was taking place at the Sussex resort of Selsey. Officially known as the Birdman Rally, it is the day when man and,woman pit themselves against the laws of gravity. Salesman Philip Clarke was sponsored by Southern Gas. But "high speed gas" didn't do much for him. It just probelled him straight into the sea and his goose was cooked. August 1973 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089211: Today one of the pilots flying supplies to Berlin, Flt.Lt. J. Cornish of 242 Squadron, R.A.F. Transport, was presented with a bouquet of red roses by Fraulein Schoenrock of Wilmersdorf. The little ceremony took place at Gatow. July 1948 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089217: Janet Williams, 20, Liverpool's new Panto Queen. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089226: Lifted into the air by fellow actors. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5089247: The Graf Zeppelin D-LZ127 pictured here over London en-route to the Royal Airship Works Cardington, Bedfordshire, 04/04/1930 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5091994: Maggie Vickers wearing one of the costumes she will appear in on television. Maggie is playing the princess in the pantomime. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5092160: Rehearsing at the BBC TV studios in Manchester is Millie, who's pop hit My Boy Lollipop (which she is singing) is No.2 on the hit parade. She is keeping her fingers crossed that the song will go up to No.1. May 1964 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5083148: Derelict housing in an area of Walker, Newcastle, 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5092193: Singer, Petula Clark seen here with Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan. November 1974 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5092244: Finish of womens' 60 yards. L to R - M. Dew, C. Bailey, D. Arden, and M. Cobb, Anden came first, Cobb 2nd and Dew 3rd. March 1962 / Bridgeman Images