MPX5067846: A 19 yr. old Austrian girl said today that she was not paid after working three weeks as a housemaid for Lady Violet Bonham Carter. She is Gertraude Astlbauer and she said at Marylebone County Court that she left because she did not get enough time off. Miss Astlbauer is claiming £13.10s. and costs from Lady Violet which she claims represents wages which were not paid to her. Lady Bonham Carter with her entourage at the lunch break today. / Bridgeman Images
MPX5067981: Three-years-old Dawn Millican was among the many visitors who visited the Northern Optical Congress at Harrogate, Yorks, this week. Whilst there she decided to find out about this weird looking apparatus. It turned out to be an automatic sight testing unit. Costing between £600 and £700 this unit is made jointly by a Japanese and British firm and is named Eyco. Even twelve-month-old babies can be tested on this unit. May 1963 P018625 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5068011: Boogie to the brief beat. Musical knickers are all the rage in the US. Two hundred pairs costing £11 each were sold in minutes in New York when inventor David Lloyd put them on the market. The briefs have a small pocket sown into them where you can slip a speaker connected to your portable stereo equipment. "The girls say they feel every note through their bottoms." said David, 39. "I wear similar underwear all the time, like most of my pals, I really rate Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture now." David is working on musical Y-fronts for men, but in the meantime those girls who've tried the trendy knickers say that the feeling is great. Switched on.... Model Lindy Benson could feel it doing things to her. September 1981 P018792 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5068019: Lizzie clears a path to a life in the sun. Sweeping the streets, as you might expect, poses rather special problems for a girl. People, for example, tend to stop and stare. And in a place like the Royal Borough of Kensington, old ladies say reprovingly: "I'm sure you could get a better job than that." With three A-levels behind her, Lizzie Heffernan has certainly not been restricted in her choice of jobs. But this happens to be the one she likes. Lizzie, 18, and Irish, say: "It suits me, I don't like working indoor - and it's slimming. July 1966 P018790 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5068077: Joan Capon, 21, on the left, didn't want to join the Bunny class. She works in the club's membership office and has turned down offers. "Working at night would put out my routine," she says. Thalia Vickers, in costume was persuaded to become a Bunny by her husband. May 1968 P018581 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5070048: Petula Clark star of "Goodbye Mr. Chips" today visited the salon of Christian Dior-London in Conduit street for her last fitting of the dress she will wear for the Royal Premiere of her film. The dress is a dream of white chiffon emboridered all over with pearls, silver beads, silver thread, a tunic over chiffon trousers. November 1969 Z11314 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5070058: Petula Clark star of "Goodbye Mr. Chips" today visited the salon of Christian Dior in Conduit street, London for her last fitting of the dress she will wear for the Royal Premiere of her film. The dress is a dream of white chiffon embroidered all over with pearls, silver beads, silver thread, a tunic over chiffon trousers. / Bridgeman Images
MPX5070067: Petula Clark star of "Goodbye Mr. Chips" today visited the salon of Christian Dior in Conduit street, London for her last fitting of the dress she will wear for the Royal Premiere of her film. The dress is a dream of white chiffon embroidered all over with pearls, silver beads, silver thread, a tunic over chiffon trousers. / Bridgeman Images