MPX5086548: World War II: Battle of The Atlantic. Scene in the Admiralty Plotting Room showing the "old uns" plotting the positions of ships all over the world. In the picture can be seen Capt. A. Hawkes DSC. and Capt. T.T. Marden and watch officers of the Navy. January 1943 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086560: Marina Milton hard at work on the motorway. September 1971 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086587: Geoff proudly displays a handful of his first crop of tomatoes. February 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086596: Spike Milligan and actress Pat Ridgway at their wedding at the R.C. Chruch at Rawdon, near Leeds. May 1962 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086645: Reveille fashions. May 1962 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086666: Model seen here in a chef hats making pancake mix. Circa 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086681: Venice Film Festival 1953. Lenova Ruffo Italian film star. August 1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086693: Vic Coleman vs. Cab Cash Ford at the town hall Wimbledon. May 1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086714: The Royal Postman stands at the gates to Buckingham Palace before collecting Queen ElizabethÍs mail. 1957 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086758: Actress Diana Dors with her husband Dennis Gittins at Blackpool. July 1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086764: Actress Diana Dors with her husband Dennis Gittins (right) and Mr. J. Markall (left) at Blackpool. July 1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086444: The Spinners guild of Kent. Women using hand operated loom and spinning wheel to create cloth, July 1965 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086447: The Spinners guild of Kent. Women using hand operated loom and spinning wheel to create cloth, July 1965 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086528: Jeanie Galston, 18, of Blackley, Manchester, rests while the slimming machine gets to work. August 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086604: A scene on the road near Ledbury. These gypsies have pulled up by the roadside for their evening meal. February 1944 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086637: David meets Goliath - 2 years-old, David Edwards, of Park Street, Heaton Park, Manchester looks up in amazement at Jean Ferre, the European wrestling champion, a 23 year-old, 6ft 11ins, Frenchman, who arrived at Manchester Airport today (Sunday). June 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086658: Portly Peter, precariously perched, nibbles a slimming biscuit. Beside him is his wife Kate. She's trying to put weight on. May 1971 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086679: Venice Film Festival 1953. Italian film actress Aurora De Alba who is to dance at the festival. August 1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086682: Model seen here in a chef hats making pancake mix. Circa 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086715: The Royal Postman stands at the gates to Buckingham Palace before collecting Queen ElizabethÍs mail. 1957 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086728: Weather Hot: (Nice girl Sandra). Sandra Dorne has found an arctic region method of keeping cool while shooting her latest film "Marilyn". With the kindly help of the props department who are reputed to be able to produce anything, she takes her lunch in 1 cwt of ice, and that's not studio ice - it's Real - delivered every day to the location at Walton on Thames. "It take your breath away when you first get in," says Sandra, "but after a minute its wonderful." August 1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086493: Maureen Nolan mother of the Nolan sisters seen here with the girls during the girls tour of the U.K., Feburary 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086505: Henry Cooper and family at his Wembley home. May 1966 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086580: Horse dentist Gordon Holmes treating a patient at The Stables, Greystoke, near. Penrith. September 1974 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086592: Actress Angela Lansbury and Peter Shaw, c.1949 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086595: Fred Davis. February 1946 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086602: Gipsies in camp. View from inside a tent. A woman sits and thinks while a group of children play. November 1935 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086659: Venice Film Festival 1953. Italian actress Teresa Pellati. August 1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086754: Women members of the French Athletic team who are to meet British athletes at the white city on August 1st and 3rd arrived in London, 30/07/1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086763: Taxidermist Workshop. January 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086797: The Crapp Table in Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Kent Gavin, April 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086800: The lighthouse keepers and their families go about their daily duties around The Strathy Point Lighthouse. These include cleaning the lamp, maintaining the foghorn and looking after the garden. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086812: The lighthouse keepers and their families go about their daily duties around The Strathy Point Lighthouse. These include cleaning the lamp, maintaining the foghorn and looking after the garden. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086888: Two girls sitting on the steps pouring a drink during a Christmas party December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086915: The biggest national event in the world of young pianists for two years, the Final of the National Junior Piano Playing Competition 1969, sponsored by the British piano makers, was held at the Purcell Room of the Royal Festival Hall this morning. The winner in the Junior section, 9 year old Francis Rayner from Glamorgan pictured playing an encore after being awarded the first prize. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086918: Taxi and the taxidermist: A stuffed grizzly bear attempts to flag down a London Taxi, c.1960 / Bridgeman Images