MPX5130649: Australian tour of Great Britain for the Ashes. Last day of the Fourth test at Headingly between England and Australia. England captain Ray Illingworth on the balcony after England had beaten Australia to retain the Ashes. 29th July 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130658: Australian cricket team tour of Great Britain for the Ashes. Australian bowlers Alec Hurwood, Clarrie Grimmett and Stan McCabe during the match against Leicestershire. May 1930 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130661: Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne (1915-55), c.1945 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130664: Paul McCartney of The Beatles backstage with two fans at the Liverpool Empire. 5th December 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130387: Supporters of Oxford and Cambridge Universities gather in the West Car Park at Twickenham for a traditional picnic lunch before the Varsity rugby match. 8th December 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130390: Ladies day at Royal Ascot. Mrs Gertrude Shilling stands out in feathers., c. 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130396: Spectator fashions at St ledger, 1949 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130408: Congestion in South London shot for 1964 traffic feature for Daily Herald. 31st August 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130438: Mill Reef was back on his feet again last night after undergoing a four-hour operation on a chipped cannon bone in his left foreleg yesterday afternoon. The successful operation was carried out by Edwin James Roberts, chief orthopaedic surgeon of the Newmarket Equine Research Station, and carried out in a specially-constructed theatre at Ian Balding's Kingslere stables September 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130450: Traffic on the Kingston By-pass 13th April 1958 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130471: Pre World War Two - Pre Second World War - The local girls of the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) , pictured at camp in Northumberland, sometime in the summer before that fateful September of 1939. Molly Henderson is pictured in the front row (left), c.: June 1939 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130498: Jack Simmons, Lancashire and Tasmania Cricket Player. 10th July 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130507: World War Two - Second World War - ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) Military Police, receive their orders prior to going on duty. March 1945 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130531: Helen Day from Harpenden with some of her collection of Ladybird books including the first she signed as a four year old, the collection spans from the 1960s up to 1984 and covers all the languages the books have been printed in, 30/01/2013 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130540: Margo Henderson, Singer Actress & Impressionist April 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130555: Filming of MGN film 'Grand Prix' at Brands Hatch in Kent July 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130558: People have fun and fill the coast in the summer time, at Ayr Beach in Scotland. June 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130564: US actress Farrah Fawcett Majors enters TWA Ambassador Club at London Heathrow Airport, to begin her journey back to Hollywood, pictured June 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130636: Australian tour of Great Britain for the Ashes. Last day of the Fifth test at the Oval, England v Australia. Aussie players drinking as they celebrate victory. 16th August 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130642: Australian tour of Great Britain for the Ashes. Final day of the Second test at Lords between England and Australia. Australia's record breaking bowler Bob Massie is clapped off the pitch by players after England's last wicket fell. 26th June 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130660: The Who appeared in concert at the Lanchester Polytechnic Students' Union building. 28th November 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131587: Evening Mail Front Page Published 11th May 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131593: Mrs Roosevelt seen here at the Mansion House where a dinner was given in her honour by the National Associations of Girls Clubs and Mixed Clubs of Great Britain. Mrs Roosevelt is seen here enjoying a joke with Sherman Douglas U S Ambassador and the Lord Mayor. 14th April 1946 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131611: Aerial view showing the Singer Manufacturing Company sewing machine factory in Kilbowie, Clydebank, c. 1935 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131635: Birmingham City football ground. St. Andrews football ground hit during a bombing raid in the Second World War. 21st January 1942 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131671: Mighty Riddles Standard class 9F No. 92203 pulls the last steam-hauled iron ore train from Bidston Docks, Birkenhead, to John Summer's Steelworks at Shotton, Deeside, with Sir Richard Summers on the footplate, in November, 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131692: Here it is! The car for the Op Art girl (optical art girl) who likes all her accessories to match, pictured 24th March 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131695: Here it is! The car for the Op Art girl (optical art girl) who likes all her accessories to match, pictured 24th March 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131609: Making a polling day tour of her Fulham constituency. Dr Edith Summerskill, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Food 23rd February 1950 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131746: Avis Scott, ex-BBC TV Announcer, who was sacked for being 'too glamorous' and went on to become an actress, 21st February 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131776: Caroline Coon, a regular on the punk scene, pictured March 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131714: Avis Scott, ex-BBC TV Announcer, who was sacked for being 'too glamorous' and went on to become an actress, 21st February 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131741: Yoko Ono singing in a charity concert in New York with her husband John Lennon. August 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131756: Lord Mayor's Show, Birmingham, Saturday 26th May 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131780: Avis Scott, ex-BBC TV Announcer, who was sacked for being 'too glamorous' and went on to become an actress, 18th January 1955 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131842: The National Miners Strike 1972 Miners parade with their banners 12 February 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images