MPX5088245: The City Literary Institute marked its 50th anniversary with an 'open day' today. As well as displaying students 'arts and crafts' the Drama class gave a lively panto which would have been a credit to the West-end stage. 'Bunny-girls' Noreen Murphy (24) and Janet Hewlett-Davies (23) provided some light entertainment in the chorus. Both are in the City Lit Drama group. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088219: What do you wear when the sun really shines as though it means it, and you mean to enjoy it? From St. Tropez to Southend, the girls are covering up in long, drifting skirts in the prettiest possible prints. The newest are made on dirndl lines, gathered into a tight waist that is often shirred. Then they add the barest little tee-shirt tops they can find and top the lot with a demure straw hat dripping with flowers. If you prefer something briefer, there are some great new sundresses and playsuits. Cut on real glamour girl lines with halter necklines and bare backs, they are in complete contrast to the almost Victorian look of long skirts. July 1973 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088277: Humour: Pictures of set of "Nude" furniture designed and sculpted by painter and graphic artist Allen Jones, aged 32. This is his second excursion into sculpture. The set comprises a table composed of a crouching female figure, supporting a plate of glass. Another "Nude" stands there with her hands outstretched. If you hang a hat on it it becomes a hat-stand, and of course there is a chair consisting of a girl with a seat on top. Allen Jones is an internationally reputed artist. He makes these figures in fibre-glass and leather. The artist's wife laying the table. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5089162: Five sick biafran children who have fled their war torn home arrived in London Yesterday (Fri) on a Mercy Flight from ULI. Their aircraft left the airstrip only minutes after a bombing raid on Wednesday. The two teenaged girls, two boys aged 10 and five and an 18 months old baby girl will be cared for in hospitals in England and Ireland. Veronica Ido (on stretcher). December 1969 / Bridgeman Images