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

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

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

MPX5086753: Medical: Polio vaccine laboratory. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086756: Film Star Mara Lane with Brigadier Soden. June 1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5086852: Condemned dogs at the Manchester dogs home Collyhurst, Manchester, waiting for owners to claim them. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087159: Out on the wild Welsh moors, members of X Company the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (T.A.) unload a transport vehicle and prepare hand grenades for an exercise in open country, 22 September 1967 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087273: Pet lamb seen here living in the house of her owner. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087291: Cat playing in bath. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087241: Model Dawn Chapman. January 1962 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087391: Woman having her hair washed at the John London Hair and Beauty Saloon. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087427: For 4000 years craftsmen have beaten gold by hand, by the wielding of hammers. A gold beating machine is now used, but is only capable of doing the preliminary hammering of gold in the early stages of beating the gold then being passed to craftsmen who hammer to 1/200,000 of an inch. October 1926 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088098: Factory where model aircraft for the travel agents are made. Men making model planes. Circa 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088139: Timelord: Clock repairer Bill Marshall seen here repairing the movement to a mantle clock. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088158: The District Nurse: General scenes of District Nurse Muggeride out on her rounds visit her elderly patients. Seen here bathing a patients feet. Circa 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088184: The District Nurse: General scenes of District Nurse Muggeride out on her rounds visit her elderly patients. Seen here bathing a patients feet. Circa 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088187: 22 year old Miles Anderson, son of Major General John Anderson CBE, is the most promising actor of the year, and Hitchin girl, Judith Ann Blake the most promising actress of the year, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088164: The District Nurse: General scenes of District Nurse Muggeride out on her rounds visit her elderly patients. Seen here bathing a patients feet. Circa 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088277: Humour: Pictures of set of "Nude" furniture designed and sculpted by painter and graphic artist Allen Jones, aged 32. This is his second excursion into sculpture. The set comprises a table composed of a crouching female figure, supporting a plate of glass. Another "Nude" stands there with her hands outstretched. If you hang a hat on it it becomes a hat-stand, and of course there is a chair consisting of a girl with a seat on top. Allen Jones is an internationally reputed artist. He makes these figures in fibre-glass and leather. The artist's wife laying the table. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088392: Steve Harley (3rd left) and Cockney Rebel. Seen here at London Airport arriving back from New York, 26/02/1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088430: Bruce Forsyth as a teenager playing a ukulele circa 1945 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088451: Teenager Penny Vancliff, a factory girl who wants to be a London model. Penny at work on her sewing machine at the Blyth factory. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088513: Police officers of the Gateshead police force were today complimented on their smartness at the annual inspection by her Majesty's Mr A U R Scroggie, c.1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088537: Mrs. Margaret Thatcher with Vince Hill and Lulu seen here sing at a Conservative General Election gathering. April 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088481: Hit song writer Graham Gouldman who has produced top ten numbers for The Hollies, Herman's Hermits and the Yardbirds, was married yesterday to Miss Susan Gottlieb, a jeweller's daughter, in Mancherster. The couple are seen leaving the Holy Law Synogogue at Prestwich after the ceremony. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088484: 77-year-old Mrs Alice Baker taking her "keep Fit" class at Sutton Hill Community Centre, Telford New Town. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images