MPX5157979: James Hunt storms to a controversial win at the British Grand Prix. The win came after he was involved in a dramatic five-car pile up. Three rival teams claimed he should be disqualified and it took three hours for stewards to decide the outcome. 19th July 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157982: James Hunt puts his new car, the Marlborough-McLaren M.26, through its paces at Silverstone. It is hoped the car, designed by Concorde designer Gordon Coppenck, will be ready in time for the German Grand Prix this weekend. 23rd July 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5157991: Motor Races at Goodwood, 31st March 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158006: Mackeson Premier at the Crystal Palace race track. 9th August 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158009: Crowds await the arrival of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at St Peter Port in Guernsey on her royal visit to the Channel Islands with her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. 29th July 1957 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158042: The front page of the Coventry Evening Telegraph, featuring the headline 'Players fined in £300 bribery case'. Monday 29th July 1963 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158054: International Trophy race for Formula 1 Grand Prix cars at Silverstone. Winner of the race Keijo Erik "Keke" Rosberg who drove a Theodore T R I. 19th March 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158063: Skate City opens in London on the South Bank on 26th August 1977 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158072: Thrill seekers have found a new way of living dangerously - on the steep slopes of a seaside park. Hurtling down a bank at 40 m.p.h. is the latest craze to hit South Shields. And Sunday morning skateboarding sessions are becoming a regular feature for the town's fearless few. The high risk hobby was introduced to the South Marine Park by 30-year-old John Strachan, pictured on 7th November 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158077: Meet Charles - he could never be called the well-dressed man but he assumes a certain dignity when he takes charge of the biology class on 13th January 1961 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158107: Boys arriving at Barrs Hill School in Coventry for the first time since it changed from an all girls grammar to a mixed school, 28th August 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158122: A female butcher seen here at work in her shop. Yapton, West Sussex. 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158128: Beach Scenes, Eastbourne, East Sussex, 7th June 1975 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158131: Actor and comedian, Kenneth Williams 31st May, 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158137: The Westminster Morris men performing their dance, not on the village green but in a shopping centre in suburbia. 20th June 1955 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158140: British National Championship Ploughing Match, Tadcaster. Labouring under an effort to guide his plough into 2nd place in the Horse Ploughing Championship of Great Britain is Albert Battye of Penistone, Yorks. 14th November 1951 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158176: Photo-call for Thorns Sextuplets in Incubation Ward at Birmingham Maternity Hospital, 2nd October 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158188: Birmingham Maternity Hospital, 3rd October 1968. It was reported yesterday, that Sheila Thorns from Birmingham underwent a Caesarean section early this morning during which six children - four boys and two girls - were delivered., 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158194: News Press Conference at Birmingham Maternity Hospital, where It was reported earlier today, 2nd October 1968, that Sheila Thorns from Birmingham underwent a Caesarean section early this morning during which six children - four boys and two girls - were delivered., 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158197: Tourists in Piccadilly, London, 10th August 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158221: Tourists in Piccadilly, London, 10th August 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158233: The Hatton triplets from Manchester, Deborah, Sharon and Allison with the Quilty triplets, Anthony, Bernard and Frank, 29th October 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158236: Yorkshire County Cricket Club, players head to the practice shed with snow still on the ground, 5th April 1961 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158245: It Might come true! If, as the popular song says Wishing will make it so the dreams of these girls should come true in such a setting. The ancient Irish Wishing Seat has been transplanted in Primley, near Paignton, Devon, and for a few pence, you can sit in it and make your wish, but no money is refunded if results are not forthcoming. The girl on the left has a brother in Merchant Navy, and the girl on the right has her husband in the Middle East, so it's not difficult to imagine what their wishes are unless their wishes take in the world issues of today. August 1943 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158260: Brigitte Bardot in London, November 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158290: One of the bells at Stockton Parish Church, Cleveland. Two new bells will be hoisted into the belfry over the next week. 19th June 1984 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158317: Catalogue for the sale of Donald McGill original Postcards, Sotheby's, London, 18th July 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158323: Stuntman Evel Knievel arrives in London ahead of his jump at Wembley Stadium. 6th May 1975 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158338: Eustace Rogers builds coracles but the demand for this ancient form of transport has fallen in the past few hundred years. So 52 year old Eustace - the last of his kind in England - has switched from the very old to the very new and taken a job at the huge power station at Ironbridge in Shropshire. He commutes, of course, by coracle - three miles on the River Seven. Its ideal for reflective lunch breaks and there are no no parking problems either. March 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158084: Former 'Goon' Harry Secombe, led the singing of hymns and his brother Rev Frederick Secombe, of Machen, Newport, read one of the lessons at the Actors' Service held at St Martin-in-the-Fields. This service was one in series to mark the patronal festival of the actors' church union. Sir Ralph Richardson also read one of the lessons. Parson Secombe, 39, was two years older than his brother Harry. 14th November, 1958 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158099: Actor, comedian and writer, Eric Sykes, pictured as part of the cast of the play 'The Button' at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle. 25th November, 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158105: Joan Crawford portrait April 1966 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158108: Joan Crawford at the Premier of My Fair Lady film in New York October 1964 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158141: Actor, comedian and Carry On star, Charles Hawtrey who was appearing at the Empire Theatre, Sunderland, in the pantomine 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' which had returned for the second year. It was only eight months since his Carry On colleague Sid James had collapsed and died on the same stage. 8th November, 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158171: Firemen's Picket keep warn at London Road Fire Station, Manchester, 21st November 1977 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5158174: The Feathers Hotel, Ludlow, Shropshire. c.1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images