MPX5126559: Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales during his visit to the North East, 31 May 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126562: Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales during his visit to the North East, 31 May 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126767: Pop group Procul Harum. Bobby Harrison, Gary Brooker, Matthew Fisher, Dave Knights and Ray Royer. 13th June 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126876: Dartmoor Prison January 1932 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126794: North End Spinning Company's Mill in Bolton, Greater Manchester, 16th March 1948 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126906: Bollywood Film Posters, Bombay, India, May 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126818: Children of pilots from 43 Squadron, the Fighting Cocks, pose for photographs on a phantom at Leuchars in Fife, August 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126857: The Hawker Siddley Hawk trainer / ground attack aircraft, was rolled out for the first time at the company's airfield at Dunsfld in Surrey. 12th August, 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126954: The opening of John Dobson street in Newcastle on Wednesday, May 6, 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126872: Street theatre came to Leamington in the shape of 10 amateur actors from Oxfam. The players are members of the Young Oxfam Round Britain Street Theatre who are spending their summer vacation touring a dozen towns and cities. They present two plays to show Oxfam's role in the Third World, the first depicts the results of drought and the second the effect of international trade on under-developed countries. The travelling group are accommodated at church halls while on tour and Leamington was about the half-way point of their tour. Their leader, John Fewtrell, said the group were set up to entertain and inform but had raised enough through contributions to cover their costs. 22nd August 1977 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126969: The opening of John Dobson street in Newcastle on Wednesday, May 6, 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126893: Mr. Dudley Smith, MP for Warwick and Leamington, opened a new junior school block at Arnold Lodge, a fee paying school in Leamington. 15th February 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126911: Seasonal goodwill and cheer began for hundreds of old age pensioners in Coventry today when the distribution of 8,500 parcels from the Lord Mayor's Christmas Fund started in the crypt of St. Mary's Hall in Bayley Lane. Each of the pensioners filed through the building to receive one of the parcels which contained 15 grocery items pakced in gay carrier bags. The bag included a Christmas pudding, tea, sugar, biscuits, tins of steak, chicken, sardines, salmon, cream and fruit. The Lord Mayor, Alderman W. Parfitt, was there to give a Christmas greeting to the first few hundred arrivals and to hand them personally an envelope containing a Christmas card and 2s. 6d. "to have a Christmas drink from me." The cost for this gesture was £6,000. The parcels were put together in a 10-hour marathon by 2 dozen volunteers from the Welfare and Town Clerk's departments in their own time. They worked for 2 and a half hours each evening fortified by a buffet tea supplied by the Lord Mayor. 17th December 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127602: The finals of the North of England Juvenile Jazz Band Championships at Brough Park Greyhound Stadium in Byker, Newcastle on 8th October 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127532: Pop star Barry Gibb's love of guns landed him in court when the lead singer with the Bee Gees pop group was fined £25 after he admitted having two pistols without a firearms certificate. Barry Gibb pictured after the hearing. December 1968 (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

MPX5127568: The five boys of the Bee Gees pop group began their basic training for the Army yesterday. As raw recruits, they will suffer the miseries of square bashing and the forthright remarks of the sergeant-major. The remarks are likely to be more forthright than usual, too. For the Bee Gees will do their soldiering as stars of a Boer War comedy film to be written by Johnny Speight. The Bee Gees line up left to right: Colin Peterson, Vince Melouney, Robin Gibb, Barry Gibb and Maurice Gibb March 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127577: The Sunday Sun's Junior Dance Festival at the Mayfair Ballroom in Newcastle, the competition ran over three Sundays in January 1974, c. 15 January 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127653: The Jack O'Clubs Sunday Sun Road Show at the Bedlington Social Club in Northumberland featuring North East comedian Bobby Thompson 28 April 1974 (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

MPX5127610: The finals of the North of England Juvenile Jazz Band Championships at Brough Park Greyhound Stadium in Byker, Newcastle on 8th October 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127658: The Sunday Sun's Junior Dance Festival at the Mayfair Ballroom in Newcastle, the competition ran over three Sundays in January 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

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

MPX5127672: Grand Prix motorcycle road racer Phil Read sits on an Norton Villiers Triumph Bonneville 750 cc motorbike with NVT chairman Dennis Johnson (right) looking on. 9th August 1975 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127703: Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger who plays the lead role in the film Ned Kelly, is surrounded by children in the street during a break in filming in Bugendore, Australia, July 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127690: A hearse being used in one of the funeral scenes in the film Ned Kelly, being filmed in Bugendore, Australia, 23rd May 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127754: Three RAF Westland Puma helicopters refuel during Operation Sky Warrier at Otterburn. 06/07/1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127702: The Rolling Stones led Mick Jagger arrive for the pop concert in Hyde Park. Behind Jagger is 21 year old Mick Taylor making his Stones debut following the death of former guitarist Brian Jones. 5th July 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127790: Wigs and false hair pieces are no longer considered a luxury. Most women can own one - but few would spend £1,500 on a complete "wig wardrobe." This is exactly what one customer at Owen Owen Ltd, hairdressing salon has done. "My client has bought wigs and pieces of all colours, shapes and lengths," said Mr Kenneth Lugg, manager of the salon. This photograph shows a customer at the Owen Owen wig boutique surrounded by samples of the wig-makers craft. At the Hotel Leofric in Coventry, this week more than 100 Coventry & District hairdressers attended a "wig forum," when two representatives from a wig firm gave hints on how to care for wigs, their cleaning, cutting, perming and setting. Wigs and hairpieces of all sizes and colours were on display including a special range of toupees for men. These toupees were priced from about £14 14s. 6th March 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127741: A RAF Westland Whirlwind search and rescue helicopter stands by as strike command Westland Wessex helicopters take off from RAF Boulmer, 16/09/1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127832: Every girl dreams of being a princess. That dream had a touch of reality today for these 16 Coventry girls, for they were treated like princesses. The girls, past and present pupils at Cardinal Wiseman School, went to Buckingham Palace and met the Duke of Edinburgh who presented them with the gold awards they gained under his scheme. Their mothers went too, and Sister Mary Colman, headmistress when the school first embarked on the Duke's award scheme 10 years ago, and Sister Agnes, whose responsibility it was at that time. At Cardinal Wiseman, there are now 100 girls taking the bronze award, 30 the silver and 25 the gold ' more than in any previous year. The girls receiving their "golds" today have covered a wide range of interests, including music, swimming, reading, dancing, cookery, needlework, typewriting, and badminton. The 16 are Josephine Fensom, Johanna Filipuik, Linda Hamilton, Monica Henry, Geraldine Igoe, Irene Krupa, Colleen Lissamer, Carmel Maguire, Mary Malone, Mary Maughan, Rose Meehan, Mary Naughton, Dawn O'Toole, Bernadette Thiedeman, Christine Union and Nora Wright. The present headmistress, Sister Frances Clare, is an enthusiastic supporter of the scheme, for which Sister Margaret has special responsibility. Sister Margaret said today: "The school has always considered the 'scheme to be of great value in the development of character, calling as it does for perseverance and determination." 13th July 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127810: Keith richards arrives at Coventry Theatre carrying a young King Charles Spaniel under his arm. He will be on stage along with other members of ther Rolling Stones band tonight. 6th March 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127874: Felix Dennis James Anderson and Richard Melville jumping in the street outside the offices of OZ magazine wearing prison suits with arrows before their court appearance, 21/12/1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127870: The occupiers of No 3 Court, Clayton Street, Liverpool, with their canary, 2nd March 1933 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127916: Peter Townsend arrives at Lydd Airport, Kent from Brussells. October 1955 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5127879: Scarlet Street off St Annes in Liverpool 2nd March, 1933 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images