MPX5155932: The RAF's new pilot training scheme known as the Provost - Vampire Sequence, under which pilots qualify for their wings on jet aircraft, is now in operation and the first course of pilots has just been passed out at No. 5 Flying Training School at Oakington, Cambridgeshire. Pictured is Flying Officer W S Burrows, an instructor at the Vampire Traing School, putting Auxiliary Pilot Officer W F Gough of Cranbrook, Kent, through his blindfold training. This training is to accustom pilots to finding their instruments quickly in the dark as they might have to in the event of a fire which filled the cockpit with smoke. 24/08/1954 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5156354: Members of The Who rock group sent their managers to purchase a guard dog at Battersea Dogs home to guard their van and equipment. But while they were there the van and instruments valued at £5000 were stolen outside the home. The group outside the Home left to right: Pete Townshend, Keith Moon, John Entwistle and Roger Daltrey. 1st September 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5156363: Pop stars meet in Carnaby Street, London to become founder members of an anti bowler hat group to be known as the bowler hat brigade. Among the groups were The Animals, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Walker Brothers, The Merseybeats and The Who 1st September 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5156531: The Pendennis Castle steam locomotive which was sold to Australian iron ore producers Hamersley Iron in 197 . On 29 May 1977, she made her farewell run in the UK, at the head of the Great Western Envoy from Birmingham to Didcot and return. The following day, she headed to Avonmouth, the port for Bristol, where she was loaded aboard the cargo vessel Mishref, and departed for Sydney, Australia, on 2 June 1977 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5156549: Liverpool manager Bill Shankly called in Mr John Flood of Queensferry, an expert on ground construction, to get the ground ready for Wednesday's cup tie replay match against Burnley. Here he is pictured alongside the tractor drawn disc harrower cutting through the ice covered pitch at Anfield. This will loosen the ice before it is lifted by a bulldozer. 27th January 1963 (photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5154618: Pop singer Rory Storm (real name Alan Caldwell) leader of the Liverpudlian group Rory Storm and the Hurricanes who were contemporaries of The Beatles in the 1950s and 1960s and were the band for who Ringo Starr used to drum before moving to the Beatles in 1962. Picture taken: 15th November 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images