MPX5077846: Old English Twelfth Night Customs: Twelfth Night Festivities will take place at the Grosvenor House tonight in aid of the United Charities. A Badderley Cake will be cut as it has been for the past generations. Miss. Jean Elden, aged five years will act as the Spirit of Twelfth night and is to be seen mounted on the huge Cake, around which children are seen during the rehearsal. January 1944 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077900: Entertainment: Music: Anne Howells (28) from sale, Cheshire who is a member of the Royal Covent Garden Opera Company is to make her debut in the leading role of Rosina in the Barbar of Seville. The conductor David Atherton (25) is conducting the opera, this being his first Rosini Opera. Conductor David Atherton goes through the score with Anne Howells. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077950: Tommy Steele who rode on the top of a stage coach as Dick Whittington in the Lord Mayors show changed, after travelling through City of London in the procession, in a police cell in Wood Street Police Station. Tommy changed out of the Dick Whittington costume into normal clothes. But not before throwing off his long wooly underwear that he wore to keep out the cold! November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077986: War salvage: Pictures taken in a German smelting yard at Hamburg which shows the shortage of German metal for Munitions. Here are Bronze statues and Church Bells collected from occupied countries piled in a heap ready for smelting irrespective of there value the end of the war may save some of the more valuable ones. June 1945. June 1945 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077099: Actors, make-up girls and technicians have never worked in such conditions before. Granada TV had set the location for filming Spanish Civil War scenes for a series " Family at War". Because of the heavy snow fall, the script had to altered, the date of the incident and the location too. For three hours they all worked it thick snow at Millstone Edge, near Hatharsage. Make-up girls (L to R): - Glenda Trail, Lois Richardson (glasses) and Julie Bunting at work on leading actor, John Ronane. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images