MPX5103580: Durham born actress Wendy Craig was a special guest at a preview of a new Trust House Hotel at Washington 25th January, 1971 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5103625: The Moorgate tube crash, Friday 28 February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5103634: Coventry's Council House in Earl Street, looking towards Jordan Well and Gosford Street. 1935 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5103652: Northern Line Tube crash at Moorgate underground station, February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5103676: Fashion: Models: Lindsay and Lotte, February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5103688: The Zeppelin L71 seen here over flying London on her way to Pulham in Norfolk was from a new class of "super" Zeppelin with the intention of having the ability to bomb New York. The Germans had already proved that a lengthened Zeppelin could fly over 5,000 miles, as with the famed L59 and the flight over Africa. L 71 was handed over to the British Government as war reparations at the end of the first world war 29th June 1920 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5103700: Cook Street Gate, Coventry c. 1936 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5103706: King George VI meets members of the Auxiliary Fire Service, during the King and Queen's visit to Coventry and Nuneaton, 25th February 1942 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5097972: Donkey Derby held for charity at Festival Gardens. Bunny girls and Penthouse pets in a race which was declared as dead heat by the organisers. April 1972 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5097978: Karate Machine: Man/Machine/Unusual/Humour: Kung Fu man Baron Omidi tries out the new Karate machine at the distributors factory in North West London. February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098008: Rod Stewart and Faces. Concert in U.S.A. March 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098026: "Keeping Fit" with the Minister of Sport. The Minister of Sport, Mr Denis Howell, M.P. today visited the City Gymnasium to undertake a course of exercises directed by Al Murray, the proprietor of the Gym. February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098042: Fishwives in Newcastle in 1930 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098060: Ravages of the sea. Fishermen repairing crab pots on Tynemouth Haven. 12th September 1936 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098096: Fashion Shoot: Models: Paris - Spring/Summer 1975: Alison in a Shorts outfit from Torrente. January 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098123: Strange tales of London. Beauty Queens (who will be in the pancake race on Tuesday) and baby elephant Minoti - she is five, but for an elephant that is a baby. February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098141: 20 yr old Linda Thorson successor to Diana Rigg, in the Avengers T.V. series seen here with Patrick McNee. October 1967 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098186: Jogger-nauts: John Robinson sports writer with Colin Taylor jogging in Battersea Park. May 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098195: Patsy's kitchen, Frizzled Beef recipe, November 1948 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098201: Model Pauline Cunningham wearing trouser suit. August 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098240: A gun carriage flanked by columns of French war orphans during the funeral of an American unknown warrior at Havre 27th October 1921 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098246: USS Los Angeles (ZR3), a 2,472,000 cubic foot rigid airship, completed in August 1924 under the builder's number LZ-126, she departed Germany in mid-October, 1924 / Bridgeman Images

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

MPX5098264: Construction of a Vickers Viking aeroplane. 12th September 1946 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098307: Tall cranes are a symbol of South Shields and of Redheads shipyard. Here seen on their runways alongside the building berths, 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098313: The dry dock at Swan Hunter shipbuilders in Wallsend, c. 1950 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098322: Queen Elizabeth II watches the action at the Windsor Horse Show, circa 01/06/1976 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098370: A herring drifters nets go overboard in 1949 / 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

MPX5098403: Fishermen mend their nets in the calm of the North Shields Fish Quay while a storm rages out to sea in 1960 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5103730: Glamour: Model: Chekkie Maskell, Marylin Jewrey, February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5103815: Some of the cast of the play Arturo Ul on Grainger Street in Newcastle dressed as American gangsters in March 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5103839: Musician/Music/Rock: John Entwhistle Bass Guitarist of the who pictured at his Ealing, West London home, February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5103875: Musician/Music/Rock: John Entwhistle Bass Guitarist of the who pictured at his Ealing, West London home, February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5098501: British runner Mary Rand poses during a photoshoot on the race track, December 1969 / Bridgeman Images