MPX5098249: The R.101 Airship after making two unexpected dives over Beauvais, near Paris, hits the ground with only six survivors from the 54 passengers. 5th October 1930 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099597: The steam ship Caronia going all out in her speed trials off Arran in the winter sunshine in 1948 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098397: He may owe the taxman £44,000 but it's Churchill type cigars for American singer P.J. Proby pictured at the BBC studios in Manchester prior to going on the Simon Dee show. The kingsize cigars arrived as a gift from a fan at the studios, August 1967 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098400: 21 year old "Winkle" Colline Pellett of Forest Hill finished his 6 year apprenticeship as a compsitor today. His workmates at Wilkinson Bros., a printing firm in Laystall Street, off the Clerkenwell Road, gave him a "passing out ceremony". At 12 o'clock lunchtime, Winkle was taken in to the street with everybody in the works banging hammers on benches. He was then tied to a trolley in the gutter outside the firm's front door, with everybody in the firm watching from a windows and the steps. Fire buckets were splashed over him then flour, eggs and paper streaners. Winkle was than pushed at runnings speed through the streets and Leather Lane market, to the front of Gamages store in Holborn where he was left, still tied to the trolley. After a few minute struggling, with the crowds watching, two policemen arrived and asked for an explanation. Winkle said he had just "passed out" and told them the story. The police then freed him and he had to push the firm's trolley back to the works still covered in the flour, water and eggs, July 1967 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087456: Reveille Fashions. Delia Truman. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087528: Giraffe at London Zoo with baby. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087540: The start of an event at the Northern National Karting Championship at Catterick. May 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087552: Miss. Gwen Robyns raises a glass of wine. December 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087582: Keep-Fit: Woman exercising with dumb bells. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087607: People - elderly. An old man searching through a pile of bricks. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087616: Model John Handy wearing cardigan in Reveille Studio . 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087619: General Street scenes of Mexico City. OPS people, traffic, architecture. January 1968 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087628: Model John Handy wearing cardigan in Reveille Studio . 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087661: Sport: Rugby Union South African visit to Sauna baths: Managers face to face at a Sauna Bath in Fennell Street, Manchester, Corrie Bornman, of the Springboks, and Joe Mercer, of Manchester City. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087102: Tamsina from Ilford, Essex sitting on chair during the Mini Miss world competition, 1972 / 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

MPX5087171: Margaret Thatcher visits the offices of the Newcastle Evening Chronicle and Journal, 2 July 1977 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087241: Model Dawn Chapman. January 1962 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087271: Cat playing in bath. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088294: Actress: Gloria Grahame the Hollywood Star has arrived in this country to make a film called "The Good Die Young" at Shepperton Studios seen here at the Dorchester immediately on arrival from Plymouth where she left the Ile De France. September 1953 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088411: Jim Callaghan and his wife arrived at Heathrow Airport from Tel Aviv. They have been on a tour of the Middle East. February 1974 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5088569: Fairground Steam traction engine. May 1973 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087697: Authoress Janet Green seen here with her cat. 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087706: George Brown and his wife arrive at LAP from Rome after talks.January 1968 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087739: Police using early cctv to combat crime. OPS Cameras positioned around Croydon. Officers in the viewing room at Croydon Police station. January 1968 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087794: Speedway at stoke, motorsport. June 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087815: Inventions: "The Rain Gun": A farmer seen here testing a new kind of irrigation process called "The Rain Gun" turns the device on three of his female farm workers who watch on in fascination. Circa 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087839: Factory where model aircraft for the travel agents are made. Men making model planes. Model maker painting tailplane of model Circa 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087851: Dave Charnley v Jummy Croll. Jimmy Croll's cut eye is covered as he poses with Dave Charnley, after their fight at Liverpool, was stopped after the fourth round. Charnley won. September 1958 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087860: Inventions: "The Rain Gun": A farmer seen here testing a new kind of irrigation process called "The Rain Gun" turns the device on three of his female farm workers who watch on in fascination. Circa 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087872: Singer Valerie Masters appearing at the Empire Theatre, Newcastle. June 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087930: Harlequins v Newport. No. 9 of Harlequins (Gronow) gets away with the ball. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087948: Girls of the Womens' Land Army (Pests Department) are emplyed in S. Wales as rat catchers. Girls counting the days "bag". March 1944 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5087969: Romantic couple take a stroll in the country side. Richard Camp and Diane Ford, c.1950 / 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