MPX5127040: Morning after fire gutted Woolworths departent store in central Manchester on Tuesday 8th May 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127043: The Queen is presented with a record by singer Vera Lynn. 26th November 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127046: The Queen and Princess Anne walk barefoot through a Mosque in Kuala Lumpur. 28th Feb 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127079: The Queen pictured leaving Buckingham Palace before the birth of her third child. 12th February 1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127115: Mr. Ray Buckton, the ASLEF General Secretary tries the driver's seat in British Rail's new High Speed train just before it left King's Cross for Darlington on 2nd August 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127151: The last Riverside Line train waiting for passengers at Willington Station on 20th July 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127181: Elizabeth Sladen with Jon Pertwee standing in the courtyard of BBC Television Centre after it was announced that she will play Sarah Jane Smith, a bright young journalist on a woman's magazine who becomes the Doctor's assistant in the new Doctor Who series. 26th June 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127190: Light Brigade Fashions. 7th January 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127198: Queen Elizabeth II - Princess Elizabeth seen in the Royal Box at the Aldershot Tattoo in 1938 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127204: Eric Sykes with Alexandre Dane in Big Bad House at the Theatre Royal July 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127213: Comedian Harry Worth, with Debbie Arnold (left) in Newcastle's Grey Street, was appearing in Pardon Me, Prime Minister, at the Theatre Royal, pictured on 18 June 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127234: The cast of the production of Oliver at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle on September 2nd 1983 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127264: Valerie Churchill, 25, and her one year old daughter Sarah, born 16th March 1972, pictured at home in Barnet, Herts. January 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127270: Singer Dorothy Squires in Newcastle on May 25 1972, to launch an appeal for Action for the Crippled child. Dorothy was presented with 20,000 stamps towards the appeal by the North Eastern Co-op, May 25 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127279: Flooding in Berryscaur, Boreland, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire, 14th June 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127300: A evening in for a husband and wife watching a coin-operated television. These coin operated television were an alternative to buying a set. These days, renting a television set is a dying habit. Changing technology, huge advances in reliability and falling prices for equipment has severely reduced the rental market. November 1959 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127312: William Muncie Assistant Chief Constable for Strathclyde and former head of Lanarkshire CID April 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127327: Butcher standing in his shop window, showing off his various meat products currently on display, picture taken during Lamb Chop Week February 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127375: Eight-year-old twins, Shirley and Carol Barnett, of Coventry, open a chocolate Easter egg to find a real live chick. The egg was made by their mother, Mrs. Valerie Barnett, a full-time student in the Creative Studies department at Coventry Technical College where a seasonal class was held to produce Easter fare. 9th April 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127387: Ninety three year old General Sir Ian Hamilton returns to his London home following his participation in the march from Horseguards Parade to Westminster Abbey for a Church parade organised by the South African War Veterans Association, c. June 1946 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127402: Big Three Conference: Prime Minister tours ruins of Berlin. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, accompanied by his daughter Mary, and Mr. Anthony Eden, makes a tour of the ruined city of Berlin. Among the places they visited were the buildings of the Reichstag, and the Chancellery. Picture shows:- Prime Minister leaving the bunker where Hitler was alleged to have died. 16th July 1945 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127408: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill with American officers studying aerial surveillance photographs during the Second World War, c. 1942 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127423: Is there really a Basil Fawlty lurking deep within John Cleese? “Not at all,” says the star of Fawlty Towers, pictured in Newcastle, in November 1977 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127447: The cast of the production of Oliver at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle on September 2nd 1983 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127462: Petticoat Lane: Every year, it seems, still more thousands remember that Petticoat Lane, in East London, lays itself out on the Sunday before Christmas to sell toys and anything that anybody may want to give away. Here's the throng round a toy stall, interested in the sleeping doll which was is guaranteed to sleep. There was more of everything this year, and the cost of giving seemed to have gone down a bit. December 1948 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127465: Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales during his visit to the North East, 31 May 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127480: HRH Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Horse Show , Windsor July 1952 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127495: Buggynauts: Four young lads from Nottingham are pictured pedalling into London on their unusual six wheel, six gear buggy. The Bulwell Buggynauts from Nottingham arrive in London. Steering at the front is 18-year-old David Raynor. Providing the power at the back are (left to right) Gary Simmonds, 17 Peter Stevenson, 17, and Robert Smedley 19 19 October 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127254: Joe Gilmore top barman at the Savoy hotel in London seen here preparing Cocktails 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127257: Singer Dorothy Squires in Newcastle on May 25 1972, to launch an appeal for Action for the Crippled child. Dorothy was presented with 20,000 stamps towards the appeal by the North Eastern Co-op, May 25 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127278: Singer Dorothy Squires in Newcastle on May 25 1972, to launch an appeal for Action for the Crippled child. Dorothy was presented with 20,000 stamps towards the appeal by the North Eastern Co-op, May 25 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127311: Drummer Colin Peterson, who is suing the Bee Gees pop group, may be "cutting off his nose to spite his face," a judge suggested in London on Wednesday (24-9-69). Mr. Petersen, 23, who says he was sacked from the three -man group last month, seeks a temporary High Court order to stop the use of the Bee Gee name without his permission. He is seen here with his wife Joanne. September 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127350: Beating the bounds - Llantrisant - Freemen and residents pass through the borough to commence the custom of Beating the Bounds - 28th May 1947 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127368: Henry Cooper v Classius Clay Wembly Stadium 18th June 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127398: Battle of Trafalgar Commemoration Trafalgar day service. The Royal Navy holds it annual service in front of Nelson's Column. The Band of the Royal Marines band stand in the centre of the parade. The parade stands at ease, October 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127431: The band of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers led a parade through Newcastle to celebrate St Georges Day on 23rd April 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images