MPX5097598: American President Mr. Richard Nixon culminated his lightning round-the-world trip with a visit to Britain on Sunday that lasted just two hours twenty-one minutes. Before the arrival of President Nixon at Mildenhall, a broom squad of American airmen march out to sweep the spot where he will alight from his aircraft. August 1969 / 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
FLO5893936: Dolls of ballet dancers Mlle. Sylvie Leconte, Mlle. Brocard and Mlle. Zephyrine Galebstie. Wooden dolls dressed by the young Princess Victoria. Color plate after an illustration by Alan Wright from Frances H. Low’s Queen Victoria’s Dolls, George Newness, London, 1894., Wright, Alan (1864-1959) / Bridgeman Images