MPX5080112: Fred Mulley, Minister of Transport, steered the ferry across the Mersey from Liverpool to Birkenhead on his short trip yesterday (Fri). Meeting two of the passengers, attractive nurses Maura O'Owyer, of Tipperary and Deirdre McCann, of Dublin. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5080123: Blog, the mongrel, complete with Christmas-hat, is last to arrive at the party held at an RSPCA home and last to leave December 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5080137: Army band play for children of reopening of Island street. Playground - Belfast. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078135: 27 year old Diana Moore a stewardess with British Midland Airways, is flying on to Australia from Heathrow today taking part in a ten day quest for the super-stewardess of 1970. Diana Moore pictured prior to her flight at Heathrow Airport today. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078137: Ruby Bridges (18) gives the baby hippo her weekly brush up in Hilda's caravan tank at Chipperfield's Circus, Bolton. September 1948 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078147: Dogs animals humor religion: "Shadow" the Alsatian follows her master - parish priest Dom Edmund Jones - everywhere he goes, even when he says mass at the Church of Christ the king, Cockfosters, Shadow is right there behind him. She follows her master into the church and lies quietly at the foot of the sanctuary steps below the altar and is right behind him when the service is over. Dom Edmund has even had special requests that the dog be invited to wedding services, and the children go to church to see the dog. Shadow lying quietly at the steps below the altar. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078158: Reveille Fashions: Jacky Jackson seen here modelling tweed cape coat. December 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078168: Writer, Gavin Lyall pictured at his home at Provost Road, Chalk Farm, N.W.3. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078169: A striking halo hat by Jay, natural plaited straw giving heart effect with large satin bow behind brim. Circa 1950 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078193: Tony and Andy swing along: Two determined men, each at the top of his profession. On the left, Britain's Tony Jacklin, out in California to make another assault on America's big golfing prizes. On the right, singer Andy Williams, Tony's partner during a pro-am torunament near Hollywood. During the round Tony was heard to sing. Said Andy: "If I could play golf as well as Tony can sing I thing I'd give it up." But that didn't stop Tony giving his partner some good golfing advice. January 1973 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078194: Owzat for nerve! It's Andy Williams, a man who's never played cricket in his life swinging his bat in the shadow of the Oval's famous gasometer. Andy, who is on a concert tour of Britain is due to turn out for a showbiz side at the Surrey ground in London on Sunday (30-7-72). He doesn't expect to make many runs. After all, singing is really his game. July 1972 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078197: Jimmy Tarbuck will be playing "Buttons" in the pantomime Cinderella at the Odeon in Golders Green this Christmas. As Buttons does not have a beard Jimmy got to work in his dressing room and made some quick but painful strokes with his safety razor. Jimmy started growing the beard about five weeks ago will he was on holiday. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078206: Jimmy Tarbuck will be playing "Buttons" in the pantomime Cinderella at the Odeon in Golders Green this Christmas. As Buttons does not have a beard Jimmy got to work in his dressing room and made some quick but painful strokes with his safety razor. Jimmy started growing the beard about five weeks ago will he was on holiday. Jimmy Tarbuck before the shave. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078220: Seven year old boy playing songs on the piano which he has written himself. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078248: German prisoners of war riddling potatoes from the "grave" (clamp) in an Endeavour to salvage what are still useable - perhaps two or three tons out of a 70 ton clamp. Where ruined potatoes were Ministry of Food reserves (to ensure supplies at the end of the season) the farmer will be compensated for his loss - but not more than 25% of his crop are so reserved. June 1947 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078258: A woman posing for photographs wearing a striped mini dress. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078265: The first lady entrant in the Ladies section of the International Ploughing Championships organised by the Northern Ireland Ploughing Association and to be held 12 February 1947 at Saintfield Co Down is Miss Joy Phillips of The Temple, Boardmills Co Down. She is assistant club leader of the Boardmills Young Farmers Club. January 1947 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078288: Race against time to save Entombed Miners: A desperate battle against time was being fought on Wednesday night (21-3-73) by rescue workers trying to free seven miners entombed 750-ft underground. March 1973 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078293: Accidents - Air 1974: Dive to Disaster. An american gunship helicopter crashed and exploded in flames during a press preview of the farnborough air show, Hampshire on Sunday (1.9.74) One moment it was doing a spectacular Air Ballet, the next it plunged in a terrible dive of death. September 1974 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078295: A woman posing for photographs wearing a striped mini dress. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078334: Over 5,000 farmers attended a demonstration organised by the National Farmers' Action Committee held in support of the N.F.U. negotiations. The farmers were led by their new precident Mr. Henry Plumb and arrived at the Ministry of Agriculture to open talks. Farmers with their banners mass outside the Ministry of Agriculture today. February 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078347: Spike Milligan, during filming for his part in his new TV series as a Pakistani. The series, written by Johnny Speight, is called "Curry and Chips". November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078351: Paul Johnstone, 13, sets off in his 60mph midget sports car for a spin round the track at his father's farm. August 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078354: Animals Tigers: James Chipperfield. Kumar, the 410 1b., five year old Bengal Tiger, who delights children who visit the pets Corner at Scotland's Safari Park at Blairdrummond, by Stirling, is to take on a new roll. He is to appear in a starring part in a film about to be made in Uganda and Gt. Britain so before he faces the cameras, his Boss, James Chipperfield, gives Kumar a beauty bath. November 1971 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078357: Spike Milligan making up for his part in his new TV series as a Pakistani. The series, written by Johnny Speight, is called "Curry and Chips". November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078362: R38 memorial unveiled at Hull. 1. Mr. J.H. Grout, 2. Capt. Hussey, U.S.N., 3. Air Vice-Marshal Sir. Vyell Vyvyan. April 1924 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078371: A caravan being towed by a mini clubman car. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078372: World War II: Home Front. Dorothy Meadows (16) and Paela Gearing (14) arrange their toys for the exhibition. March 1944 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078376: Girls soon made tea for the rescue workers. Deptford. June 1944 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078410: Lovely Karin Dor, the young German born actress is in London for the opening of her latest film "Topaz" in which she plays a sensuous counter-spy in the sophisticated, but equally treacherous world of espionage. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078412: Lovely Karin Dor, the young German born actress is in London for the opening of her latest film "Topaz" in which she plays a sensuous counter-spy in the sophisticated, but equally treacherous world of espionage. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078425: Noel Redding who played in the Jimi Hendrix experience band with bride Susan Fonsby pictured after their wedding by a Rolls Royce Car. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078427: The Plane, The King And Queen Chose. A plane very much in production news, is the Vickers-Viking, chosen for the King and Queen to use during their South African tour. Vikings on the assembly line at Weybridge. February 1947 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078428: Farmers are 6 weeks behind time. Every hour counts, but the ground is not yet quite fit, for highly mechanised work, It is still heavy in parts. On Sir Peter Greenwell's estate at Caterham they are falling back to old time sowing by broadcasting. Bill Cowie, farm manager has got his men broadcasting spring wheat by hand as he learned it himself years ago. In two or three days time if this weather holds the machines will come into their own again, but there isn't an hour to lose. Bill says as long as he can get the corn in the ground he will gamble on a late summer to reap it. It's no use bemoaning the weather and if you don't put the corn in it won't grow and so he has 3 of his old hands sowing from early morning till late at night. Each man can sow 8 acres a day, and he says, who knows it may be wet in two or three days. April 1947 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078436: Hertfordshire Land Army Girls demonstrate how expert they are at the Press Review of the County War Agriculture Committee's week end Cultivation Demonstration near Barnet, Herts. March 1942 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5078440: Noel Redding who played in the Jimi Hendrix experience band with bride Susan Fonsby pictured after their wedding by a Rolls Royce Car. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images