MPX5120780: The birdmen of Selsey. Those magnificent men with their weird flying machines assembled at Selsey, Sussex to pit their skills against the forces of gravity in an attempt to win a £3,000 prize for making a 50-yard flight from the pier. Hang-glider David Cook takes off but he is being helped. August 1975 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120792: Farnborough Air Show The only completely new aircraft at the show - The Britten Norman Islander, September 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120801: Vet David Taylor with Ramu the killer whale at Windsor Safari Park, May 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120807: Prince and Princess Michael of Kent with baby son Lord Frederick Windsor, leaving St, Mary's Hospital in Paddington Newborn April 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120813: Queen Mother in 1923 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120846: Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire, Wales - Old Ruins Exterior of Building Church, c. 1930 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120891: A soldier hangs a pair of socks on a washing line outside his fox hole on a French beach during WW2 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120611: A Polar Bear performing at the circus, April 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120623: General Idi Amin of Uganda with his associate Bob Astles, a former British soldier, February 1977 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120629: Boxer Brian London seen here losing to Henry Cooper on points at the King's Hall, Belle Vue, Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom , February 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120659: Queen Elizabeth II shows Prince Charles the sign at a polo match at Windsor great park points finger, June 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120680: Princess Soraya of Iran with German actor Maximilian Schell, February 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120707: Mrs Satterthwaite competing in the 1924 Wimbledon tennis championship, 1924 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120746: Russia ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov in his debut with the Royal Ballet at Convent Garden dances with Merle Park in the title roles of "Romeo and Juliet", October 1975 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120761: Derek Gray and Barry Stacy attempt to get a man propelled plane off the ground at Southend Airport. The plane has a 90 foot wingspan and has taken five men of an engineering firm at Southend five years to make, July 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120776: Forth Road Bridge, 06/06/1962 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120779: Young girl models a dress by Paco Rabanne, March 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120788: St Marks Cathedral Sheffield after German air raid WW2 Statue of Last Supper is all that remains undamaged 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120791: RAF McDonald Douglas Phantom fighter planes flying in formation January 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120803: Dental surgeon William Dobbs and members of the police dog section, look at the unconscious Elk after he had had his new front fang fitted, December 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120827: The Brooklyn Bridge New York USA, 05/01/1976 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120845: The Hunt for the perfect shape: Thirteen shapes from which the Concorde was designed from. These wind tunnel models help engineers perfect the supersonic airliners design, May 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120854: They're off on a do-it-yourself Flip: Fasten those seat-belts - you're airborne! December 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120924: Edward Heath seen here with former Prime Minister Harold MacMillan, March 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120936: Young girl models a smartie dress by Paco Rabanne, March 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120939: L.S.E. Sit in demonstration: Students evicted from the L.S.E. carry out a sit down protest outside Bow Street police station. Some of the audience from Covent Garden got caught up in the protest, January 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120960: Enoch Powell former Government minister seen here making a speech at Reading University, October 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120975: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton at Heathrow Airport, April 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120981: A London double decker bus hit by the blast from a bomb dropped during an air raid leaning against number 34 Harrington Square Garden North London. The driver and passengers took cover in a shelter when the raid began unfortunately ten of the local residents in numbers 35 and 36 were killed 9th September 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120987: A party of Sikhs drive around the tarmac at Heathrow airport with Sikh, Kilburchan Singh holding sacred sword which he has brought back to England to baptise member of the Sikh Community, April 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5120990: A model seen here wearing a Rhona Roy coat at the Talk of the town fashion show, April 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121005: Models from the Rhona Roy fashion show at the Talk of the Town seen here outside the theatre modelling outfits based om military tunics , April 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121038: Boxer Carlos Palomino at London Airport, June 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121044: Harry Corbett and Sooty at investiture at Buckingham Palace, Jult 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121047: Queen Elizabeth and King George VI tour bomb sites during the Blitz of London Original Caption: The King and Queen visited, again, the bombed areas of London yesterday. They saw little homes blasted out of occupation. And once, while the King was being told how damage had been caused, the Queen wandered a few steps alone . . .to a spot where another woman and mother once had a home. . . .And there she stood, silent and sad 19th September 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121059: Tennis Stars: John and David Lloyd, August 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images