MPX5154023: A couple of nice xany characters are Ray Galton (beard) and Alan Simpson. They do the Tony Hancock script from a sumptuous expansive office in Orme Court W.1. 27th September 1961 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5154026: Ansells Brewery at Aston Cross, Birmingham. 8th May, 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5154038: Iberian Airlines Aviation Caravelle crash, 1967 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5154065: The scene at Rothbury after a RAF search and rescue Westland Whirlwind helicopter made a forced landing in the River Coquet. 16/10/1968 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5154074: Aircraft crash on Whitby Moors, 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5154086: A BEA Vickers Vanguard airliner crashed, 1965 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5154104: Northern premier of The Beatles film "A Hard Day's Night". Police try to control the fans in the streets of Liverpool, pictured here 2 police men carry an injured fan. 10th July 1964. / Bridgeman Images

MPX5154110: The Queens Coronation at Westminster Abbey, 2nd June 1953 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5154119: The Beatles in Liverpool for the Premier of a Hard Day's Night. Paul McCartney is presented with flowers as he walks down the stairs of the plane into a Liverpool airport. 10th July 1964. / Bridgeman Images

MPX5154125: The Beatles arrive in liverpool for the Northern Premier of "A Hard Day's Night". John, Paul George and Ringo pictured on the stairs of the plane. 10th July 1964. / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156547: Liverpool manager Bill Shankly inspecting the Anfield pitch with chairman T V Williams and head groundsman Arthur Riley after referee George McCabe called off the upcoming FA Cup fourth round replay match against Burnley at Anfield, only three hours before kick off, with Shankly having been assured the game was on. He criticised Harry Potts and claimed the Burnley manager "seemed to be making it clear that he didn't want the game on" and added that he resented Potts appearance at Anfield for the pitch inspection. 11th February 1963 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156556: Mecca Lyceum, The Strand, London. 21st March 1962 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156574: Liverpool manager Bill Shankly wearing a new tracksuit and hand knitted woolly hat directs his team during a training session at Melwood. 15th February 1967 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156592: Casualties of Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Nigerian Biafran War. July 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156619: Photographs of Tony Hancock by Bela Zola, during his interview with Kenneth Eastaugh. 16th June 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156622: Funeral of Sergeant Brian Dawson, Leicester, 9th September 1975 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156625: Photographs of Tony Hancock by Bela Zola, during his interview with Kenneth Eastaugh. 16th June 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156631: Tony Hancock, 1962 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156664: English League Division One match at the City Ground. Nottingham Forest 4 v Manchester United 1. First goal for Forest hat-trick hero Chris Crowe as he goes down to head home a cross from colleague Joe Baker past United keeper Alex Stepney. 1st October 1966 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156667: Prince & Princess of Wales, attend barbeque at Edmonton Park, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 30th June 1983 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156673: English League Division One match at White Hart Lane. Tottenham Hotspur 4 v Nottingham Forest 1. Forest striker Colin Addison is sandwiched by a pair of Spurs, John Smith (left) and Peter Baker. 31st August 1963 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156691: Nottingham Forest players pose for team group photographs and portraits. Left to right: Dennis Mochan and Peter Hindley. August 1963 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156709: Jim Clark, racing driver at Meeting, 12th June 1962 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156742: Tony Hancock rehearsing for a show in Blackpool. 29th June 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156748: An Express train ran into a stationary Electric train between Lewisham and St John's stations, London on 4th December 1957 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156754: Brian Clough manager of Nottingham Forest Football Club and Stuart Pearce greet Princess Diana before the start of the FA Cup final at Wembley. Forest lost the match 2-1 to Spurs. 18th May 1991 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156757: Ronald Waldman, BBC Head of Light Entertainment, wife, actress Lana Morris, and newborn baby son (born 21st December 1956), pictured at home, 3rd January 1957 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156760: Ronald Waldman, BBC Head of Light Entertainment, wife, actress Lana Morris, and newborn baby son (born 21st December 1956), pictured at home, 3rd January 1957 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156769: Jacqueline Hill, Actress & Model, October 1953 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156781: Behind the Scenes, on the set of BBC TV Programme, Six-Five Special, Saturday 22nd February 1958 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5156802: Novelist Virginia Woolf, c. 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5151135: A winter snow scene, 28th March 1977. / Bridgeman Images

MPX5151159: British speed record breaker Donald Campbell at Motor Panels, Holbrooks, Coventry with the Bluebird-Proteus CN7 vehicle, which was built at the Coventry firm's factory. 30th October 1962 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5151211: Actor Michael Caine on Westgate Road, Newcastle on 27th July 1970, taking time out from filming Get Carter. / Bridgeman Images

MPX5151214: Actor Michael Caine on Westgate Road, Newcastle on 27th July 1970, taking time out from filming Get Carter. / Bridgeman Images

MPX5151253: Neil Diamond pictured at his office in Hollywood with his film chair. 5th December 1980. / Bridgeman Images