MPX5086934: Humour: Pictures of set of "Nude" furniture designed and sculpted by painter and graphic artist Allen Jones, aged 32. This is his second excursion into sculpture. The set comprises a table composed of a crouching female figure, supporting a plate of glass. Another "Nude" stands there with her hands outstretched. If you hang a hat on it it becomes a hat-stand, and of course there is a chair consisting of a girl with a seat on top. Allen Jones is an internationally reputed artist. He makes these figures in fibre-glass and leather. The artist carrying the table base. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087427: For 4000 years craftsmen have beaten gold by hand, by the wielding of hammers. A gold beating machine is now used, but is only capable of doing the preliminary hammering of gold in the early stages of beating the gold then being passed to craftsmen who hammer to 1/200,000 of an inch. October 1926 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088384: In January 1974 a suitcase bomb containing around 10lb of explosives went off outside the home of Major General Philip Ward in Chelsea, wrecking the basement. His daughter Diana, a trainee nurse, and her boyfriend were the only people in the house at the time; both were unhurt.This was the second attempt by the IRA on the life of the Major General. Our Picture Shows; the scene outside Philip Ward Chelsea home, Police are examining the wreckage of a Rootes Brothers Chamois car damaged in the explosion. January 1974 / Bridgeman Images