MPX5165836: A group of children look to the distance using a pair of binoculars, 4th March 1948 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165839: Crufts Dog, London, February 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165845: Young girl with a snake wrapped around her pulling a funny face, c.1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165914: Waitresses from the Chelsea Drugstore share an ice cream and a pint with some Chelsea pensioners, 20th July 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165917: Prime Minister Harold MacMillan greets one time enemy Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus, 10th September 1962 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165926: Janet Brown plays Margaret Thatcher with Mike Yarwood as Edward Heath 12th December 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165944: British soldiers waving as troop ship sets sail for France during WW2 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165950: The Gunner getting the gun ready for firing, which is fired automatically by a nearby electric clock precisely at 1pm everyday at the royal scottish Observatory on Blackford Hill Overlooking Edinburgh, c. 1945 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165968: Unusual House March 1973 27 years old Graham Caine who is building the natural home at Street farm house Eltham Kent, is relying on natural resources for heat water and food, 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5166000: Billy Connolly on platform with Harold Wilson at the Scottish Labour Party Conference1974 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5166006: Harold Wilson with Lady Falkender (C) Ex-Secretary of Harold Wilson 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5166015: Edward Heath MP seen here at the Tory Party conference, c. 1972 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5166042: Snow covered trees in Hadley Common, Hertfordshire, c. 1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5166045: The new National Cabinet comprising of September 1931 Sir Samuel Hoare Neville Chamberlain Lord Reading J.H. Thomas Sir Phillip Cunliff Lister Lord Sankey Sir H. Samuel James Ramsay MacDonald Stanley Baldwin and Philip Snowden, 1931 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165765: Eriskay pony, July 1972 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165786: David Niven as Dracula, July 1979 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165789: The making of The Millionairess Film, July 1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165804: John Surtees racing driver, 1970 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165831: Actress Jane Birkin and Gainsbourg, August 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165837: This cat enjoys direct milk supply from a cow, 4th August 1959 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165840: Emma the hippie Pygmy Hippopotamus with flowers around her neck, 17th August 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165843: Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath and Minister of Education Margaret Thatcher, October 1970 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165849: Queen Elizabeth and Margaret Thatcher in Zambia on an official visit, August 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165858: Conservative Minister of Education Margaret Thatcher, October 1970 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165873: The joys of the open road, 19th November 1962 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165885: Congo chimpanzee on the television programme Zoo Time, c.1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165888: Dame Edith Sitwell talks to Marjorie Proops from her bed, 7th September 1962 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165891: Tyrannosaurus Rex scares an Irish Wolfhound, 2nd September 1977 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165897: Actress Evin Crowley, 28th January 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165903: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, October 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165906: Ingrid Pitt, January 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165921: Mining Disaster at Gresford Colliery, September 1934 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165927: Prime Minister Harold MacMillan standing outside the door of the Royal Lounge, November 1961 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165945: Queen Rock Pop Group left to right John Deacon Roger Taylor Brian May & Freddie Mercury, 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165966: Treehouse November 1948 - Eric Shield (13) of Dalton Piercy built a little tree house over looking his father's farm yard. The hut is about 20 feet from the ground, 1948 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5165978: Prime Minister James Callaghan leaves Downing Street to see the Queen during the 1979 General Election campaign, 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images