MPX5099317: Return of SS 'Great Britain' 4th July 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099335: The new Tyne-Norway Liner, The Black Watch on the River Tyne at North Shields, c. 1930 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099344: Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, M.P., at the Press Conference on the E.E.C, May 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099359: Replica of The Golden Hind at Southend Pier. 27th May 1949 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099380: Ava Gardner at a press reception in London, December 1954 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099389: Ford Prefects and Fordson tractors seen here on a Dagenham quayside, awaiting loading on to the MV Cape Rodney, November 1949 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099392: Audrey Hepburn and her husband Mel, 1950 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099442: Under her own steam the new liner Empress of England ship (now called Ocean Monarch 1970) makes her way up the River Tyne, c. 1950 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099451: Prefab Sprout sign autographs for fans at the HMV music store in Newcastle. (Left to right) Martin McAloon, Wendy Smith, Neil Conti and Paddy McAloon. 15/03/1988 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099505: Youth Culture Teddy boy Tony Reuter leader of the Elephant Boys gang seen here playing dice 1955 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099514: Youth Culture Teddy boy Tony Reuter leader of the Elephant Boys gang 1955 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099520: Archers challenge darts players to a game of darts, with the Archers using their bows and arrows. Circa 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099410: A very high tide at The Thames, Blackfriars, London, 29th December 1931 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099557: A girls night out One of four friends enjoy a pint down the local pub. Circa 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099422: The sailing ship Christel Vinnen from Bremen on the River Wear, c. 1930 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099431: Spectators watch from the banks of the River Tyne as the hull of the Former Crack liner ship Olympic leaves Jarrow bound for Inverkeithing, where her breaking up will be completed, c. 1930 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099476: Ford Prefects and Fordson tractors seen here on a Dagenham quayside, awaiting loading on to the MV Cape Rodney, November 1949 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099494: Youth Culture Teddy boy Tony Reuter leader of the Elephant Boys gang seen here playing snooker 1955 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099509: Thames Tug 'Harbour Light' turns turtle outside Regent's canal, drowning 3 crew members, 20th February, 1928 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099524: The 11,250-ton cargo liner ship Duquesa, built by Hawthorn Leslie at Hebburn in the River Tyne, c.1940 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099597: The steam ship Caronia going all out in her speed trials off Arran in the winter sunshine in 1948 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099598: London views Carnaby Street, July 1967 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099622: The ship Hamilton Trader comes to Blyth Dry Docks and Shipbuilding Ltd, c. 1950 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099672: Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn making the film Love In the Afternoon 1956 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098245: Bob Geldof and the "Boomtown Rats" in Miami (Wandsworth). "Boomtown Rats" on a make believe Miami Beach in a Studio in Wandsworth, London. December 1980 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098407: 21 year old "Winkle" Colline Pellett of Forest Hill finished his 6 year apprenticeship as a compositor today. His workmates at Wilkinson Bros., a printing firm in Laystall Street, off the Clerkenwell Road, gave him a "passing out ceremony". At 12 o'clock lunchtime, Winkle was taken in to the street with everybody in the works banging hammers on benches. He was then tied to a trolley in the gutter outside the firm's front door, with everybody in the firm watching from a windows and the steps. Fire buckets were splashed over him then flour, eggs and paper streaners. Winkle was than pushed at runnings speed through the streets and Leather Lane market, to the front of Gamages store in Holborn where he was left, still tied to the trolley. After a few minute struggling, with the crowds watching, two policemen arrived and asked for an explanation. Winkle said he had just "passed out" and told them the story. The police then freed him and he had to push the firm's trolley back to the works still covered in the flour, water and eggs, July 1967 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098267: First All Women's War Agricultural Brains Trust held at the Bull's Head, Aylesbury, April 6th, 1943. Women's Land Army take great interest. May 1943 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098279: The Dornier Do X, the largest, heaviest and most powerful flying boat in the world when it was produced in 1929 by the Dornier company of Germany, 3rd November 1930 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098473: Miss World will wear a crown of steel with matching cape. Mecca Promotions had the idea of asking the British Steel Corporation to make a crown, cape and orb in stainless steel for this year's Miss World Contest, taking place at the Royal Albert Hall on December 1st. The designer was Ann Marie Shillito, 25, chosen by BSC, and who won a major prize for young designers two years ago, November 1972 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098485: School Dinners. General scenes of school dinner. Ladies serving meal to pupils in the school dining room, 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098318: The glass covered yard in which the Mauretania was built at Swan Hunter shipbuilders in Wallsend, c.1920 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098321: Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono left Heathrow Airport London this afternoon (Sat) to fly to the Bahomes for another "Bed-in" they took Yoko's daughter Kyoko 5, May 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098363: Prince Charles. Windson Polo, June 1977 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098366: Fisherwomen cleaning fish on North Shields Fish Quay in 1931 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098381: Lib - Mr. Jim Hooker, treasurer of the Tyne Cruising Club, out on the pack ice inspecting one of the club boats, at Bell's Close, Newburn in 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098387: Schools: Luxury caravan used by sixth farm at Hertford Girl's High School Hertfordshire, December 1967 / Bridgeman Images