MPX5157476: North East Shipwrecks - The South Shields Volunteer Life Brigade battled to save the captain and the 22 man crew of the Lebanese steamer Adelfotis II by using breeches buoy. The ship had been blown aground next to the Groyne lighthouse in South Shields by gale force winds. 20th January, 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157500: Newspaper printing. Delivery vans of the London evening News wait for the paper to roll off the press in Fleet Street. 1961 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157515: Roy Castle hosted a special performance of the popular Record Breakers show at Gateshead Stadium. The two-hour show was being held to mark the opening of a new indoor training hall at the stadium but it was not to be televised. 9th January, 1980 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157518: Brian Johnson, lead singer of the rock group AC/DC, with John Craig at the Lynx Studios, Shieldfield, Newcastle. 26th Febraury, 1983 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157539: Keith Richards, and Anita Pallenberg, with baby son Marlon, born Sunday 10th August, leaving King's College Hospital, London, 18th August 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157563: Musician Rick Wakeman before his concert at Newcastle City Hall 18 September 1980 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157566: Cecil King, Chairman of Daily Mirror Newspapers, Sunday Pictorial Newspapers and the International Publishing Corporation (1963-68), attends Prime Minister's Dinner for Mr Kosygin, at No. 10 Downing Street, London, 7th February 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157587: Musician Rick Wakeman before his concert at Newcastle City Hall 18 September 1980 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157590: Farmer Tony Mence with the dried up problems he faces on his land at Pershore during the summer heatwave and drought of 1976. 20th August 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157641: The Hatton triplets from Manchester, Deborah, Sharon and Allison with their baby sister Helen. 3rd December 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157167: David Bowie performing at Roker Park, Sunderland on 23rd June 1987 in his Glass Spider Tour, 1987 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157656: Santa Claus, makes time for Laundry, ahead of Christmas, 10th December 1977 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157266: Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh sporting a "ten gallon hat" watching the rodeo at Calgary during their tour of Canada, c. 15/10/1951 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157269: The Queen chats with Capt. A.C. Farquharson of Invercauld whilst the Marquess of Aberdeen speaks to the Duke of Edinburgh. The Marquess is Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire and Chief of the Braemar Games. Left to right : The Marquis of Aberdeen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duchess of Cloucester, H.L. The Queen, H.R.H. Princess Margaret, the Royal children and Capt. A.C. Farquharson of Invercauld. September 1956 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157278: The Bermondsey dockers frequenting their felmongers arms got upset about this anti-prince Philip press report and decided to do something for him in respect of his polo playing. After all he founded a playing field in their area and arranged cheap holidays for them, so they are collecting to buy him a present. Which according to the sum they reach they may vary between a polo pony or a polo stick. (Left to right) Peter Kelly (28) Bossy Cadman (27) George Walker with subscription pist, Barmaid rosehoy (27) and holding beer mug with collected money is Dennis Mulligah. November 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157281: Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on the bridge of the liner Gothic as it arrves at the Miraflores Locks in the Panama Canal during the Royal Tour of the Commonwealth. 30th November 1953 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157290: The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh in Venice on a Gondola. 8th May 1961 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157302: Queen Elizabeth II wearing the Scarlet Tunic of the Irish Guards, leaves Buckingham Palace on police horse, Doctor, with Prince Philip riding, Neill during the trooping of the colour ceremony to mark her official birthday. 11th June 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157315: Actor Bill Maynard, sporting a shaven head for his role as Daddy Warbucks in the musical Annie at the Sunderland Empire, gave the signal for a computerised switch-on of the Christmas Lights in Eldon Square Shopping Centre in Newcastle, 13 November 1986 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157318: David McCallum, actor who plays the role of secret agent Illya Kuryakin in NBC show The Man from U.N.C.L.E., pictured arriving at London Heathrow Airport, 16th March 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157321: Robert Vaughn, actor who plays the role of secret agent Napoleon Solo in NBC show The Man from U.N.C.L.E., pictured enjoying a quiet drink in a pub on The Strand, London, 22nd March 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157348: Marilyn Monroe and her husband Arthur Miller, London, 1956 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157351: Jazz Club, January 1955 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157360: Rover Engine Works, Hay Hall Road, Tyesley, Birmingham, 29th April, 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157363: Louis Armstrong Jazz Musician - May 1956 during his first concert in Great Britain / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157366: Ray Charles blues singer with writer Raina Johnson in 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157697: Armoured Tractor, ploughing fields littered with shells and bombs, 31st August 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157715: The visit of American President John F Kennedy to Vienna, Austria for talks with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. 3rd June 1961 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157739: Memorial to President John F. Kennedy is unveiled in Runnymede Berkshire May 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157769: Candida 20 year old daughter of poet John Betjeman seen here on her wedding day with groom Rupert Lycett Green son of Lady Grimthorpe. 25th May 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157793: The Darlwyne pleasure cruiser which went missing along the Cornish coast with 31 people on board. The 45 foot long boat sailed from Mylor near Falmouth and was last seen of Fowey heading home. August 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157805: David Attenborough (centre), controller of BBC2, was the principal guest oat the Radio Industries Dinner held at the County Hotel, Newcastle, on 9th February 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157817: Preperations for the play 'The Connection', by Jack Gelber, it was a controversial play due to it's depiction of heroin addiction. London, 23rd February 1961 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157823: A group of people, including Jack Gelber and Peter Daubeny, involved with the play 'The Connection', by Jack Gelber. It was a controversial play due to it's depiction of heroin addiction. London, 23rd February 1961 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157826: Pete Townshend of British rock group The Who, poses in the studio wearing suit and tie. 14th December 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157832: Marshal Voroshilov takes the sword over to show it to President Roosevelt, while Churchill and Marshal Stalin look on., Sir Winston Churchill - December 1943 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images