MPX5100039: Men of the Local Defence Volunteers, before the name was changed to the Home Guard. 26th May 1940 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100042: Rolls Royce Merlin engines being made at a factory in the Northwest of England. / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100078: Miners celebrate their pay rise with a drink., February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100084: Children watch an open air cinema performance of Ralph Reader's "Gang Show" in Deptford Park at the end of the Second World War. 25th July 1945 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100087: Miss Vera Pearson helping in the rigging loft of the Royal National Lifeboat Institutions Stores. 28th December 1944 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100144: Bernard "Bernie" Cornfeld was a prominent businessman and international financier who sold investments in US mutual funds and Girls: January 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100150: Marlene Dietrich, January 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100177: At the Nautical College, Pangbourne, Berks for the training of Cadets to become officers in the Royal and Merchant Navy . Cadets are seen here having instruction on the rules of road and recognition of men of war. 7th October 1942 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100252: D.J's Tony Blackburn and Johnny Walker, January 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094628: Bruce Reynolds one of the Great Train Robbers after his arrest, 29/10/1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094640: A horse tanker leaves Vaux Brewery, Sunderland on deliveries in 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094673: The Wellington Floating Dock seen passing through the Tyne's piers, on its way to New Zealand, a journey that will take seven months in 1931 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094718: Actor and comedian Tony Hancock leaving Marylebone Register Office after his marriage to Miss Freddie Ross, his second wife, 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094754: Reveille Fashions. Merriel Weston. February 1962 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094868: Bernard Alfieri Jnr. Corn field in Bookham, Leatherhead, UK. 20th July 1934 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098202: Patsy's Reflections, Learn to Cook by Pictures, c. 1948 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098208: Reveille Fashions. Model wearing beach dress April 1967 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098272: Lionel Jaffries with guitar and Edward Judd relax between takes. May 1963 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098275: The An-24 passenger airliners are assembled here. The An-24 first flew in April 1960 with first production versions entering Aeroflot service in September 1963. Aeroflot was the largest An-24 operator, with others going to Soviet client nations. Circa 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098278: Beatles in the USA. John Lennon, February 1964 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098287: It's mine-all mine! And the Centre court crowd wildly acclaim Bjorn Borg's feat of retaining his Wimbledon title while the Viking King looks to the heavens, July 1977 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098290: Ringo Starr in his new film 'Cavemen'.Ringo with Shelly Long, March 1980 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098311: Beatle John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono left Heathrow Airport London this afternoon (Sat) to fly to the Bahomes for another "Bed-in" they took Yoko's daughter Kyoko 5, May 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098377: The 1960 Standard Ensign Saloon, October 1959 / 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

MPX5098455: Sport Motorcycling: Isle of Man TT Racing 750 CC Sidecar Class. Siegfried Schauzu celebrates victory, June 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098473: Miss World will wear a crown of steel with matching cape. Mecca Promotions had the idea of asking the British Steel Corporation to make a crown, cape and orb in stainless steel for this year's Miss World Contest, taking place at the Royal Albert Hall on December 1st. The designer was Ann Marie Shillito, 25, chosen by BSC, and who won a major prize for young designers two years ago, November 1972 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100384: Blue Peter appeal for blind smashes through target. Lesley Judd. "Blue Peter" and Puppies, January 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100393: New Year babies at St. Teresa's Wimbledon. The new baby girls born within two hours of each other. Lucinda Rink 61bs 14 ozs and Nicole Leila Margossian 81bs 12ozs. They are held by Nursery Nurse Mary Harris. (Left Nicole Leila and right Lucinda), January 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100405: Cheltenham Gold Cup, 16th March 1972 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100414: Edward Heath arrives at Tory H.Q. in Smith Square to the cheers of his supporters, June 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5091268: Fred Wycherley of Wolverhampton is a "Smeller" the official smeller and his job is to smell out the stinkers at a Wolverhampton brewery He spends his working life shifting ground Barrels, hogsheads and firkins. Each year he sniffs at 300,000 of them. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5091289: Cobbler John Winter is the only made to measure clog maker in the North East at his workshop in Middleton-in-Teesdale, c.1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5091304: A firefighter checks the classroom is safe / Bridgeman Images

MPX5091316: Firefighters wearing protective suits fought a blaze in an asbestos unit at Poter Limited in Newburn - firemen called for a decontamination unite to be sent to deal with asbestos on their clothing, 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5091363: Fire fighters demonstrate the latest in fire engine equipment - Simon Snorkel the cherry picker which enables the firemen to reach high buildings, 1970 / Bridgeman Images