MPX5128705: Clement Freud interviewing with runner Gordon Pirie and Ann Smith, c. 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5128717: The Magnificent Sevens Jubilee Tour 1977 organised by the Austin Seven Car Club called in at Warwick Castle. After a short stop they carried on their journey to their final destination, Beaulieu, 1st July 1977 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5128730: The Coventry Lord Mayor, Alderman Leonard Lamb(second from right) with three of the guests at his banquet to mark the 50th anniversary of the R.A.F.'s foundation. With Mr Lamb are from left: Air Marshal Sir Peter Fletcher, Group Captain Douglas bader and Air Marshal Sir Andrew Humphrey. Group Captain Douglas Bader, the famous wartime pilot said: "The Royal Air Force in 1940 was very much dependent on what came out of Coventry for its well-being and indeed its fighting ability. "The few couldn't have flown at all if the people of Coventry hadn't stuck the bombing and gone on producing the things we needed." 25th October 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5128736: Author J G Ballard, who wrote famous novels Crash and Empire of the Sun, pictured at his home, 28th March 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5128738: Bill Dodgin, Southampton Football Club Manager from January 1946 to August 1949, pictured giving team talk on tactics January 1949 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5128744: Mosquitos attack Hauge Targer. By pin-pointing, attacking and destroying one particular building in the Hague RAF mosquitos of the 2nd tactical air force Carried out one of the most brilliant and spectacular attacks of low level precision bombings of the war, 4th May 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5128748: The Carlisle State Brewery ( Carlisle Brewery ). The government took over and run the brewing, distribution and sale of alcohol in three regions of the UK from 1916 until 1973 under the State Management Scheme 17/03/1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5128752: A BEA Hawker Siddeley Trident airliner, operating as a British European Airways (BEA) scheduled commercial passenger flight from London Heathrow Airport to Brussels, crashed near the town of Staines on Sunday, 18 June 1972, less than three minutes after take-off. All 118 persons on board were killed. The accident became known as the Staines disaster, and was the worst air disaster in Britain until the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. The Trident crash wreckage pictured at Farnborough. The Black Box, part of the flight data recorder equipment, The recording is made by the metal strip (centre) which is attached to the spring. December 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5128658: American singer songwriter Barry White performing in concert, December 1988 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5128660: Miss World, Belinda Green during a fashion shoot for the Evening Chronicle on a visit to Tyneside on 10th January, 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5128663: The Noble Street flats Housing Estate in Scotswood, Newcastle, which was built in the late in 1950s and demolished in the late 1970s after being blighted by social problems, vandalism, a high crime rate and was nicknamed Alcatraz by the local residents. The flooded gutters have become a playground for these young children 7 December 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5128674: The Queen during a visit to Coventry which took in a tour of Walsgrave Hospital where she officially opened the newly finished building. She chatted to nurses and patients and in her speech she said that Coventry had particular cause to take pride in the new hospital. "Today's ceremony marks another stage in the re-creation of your city after the destruction of the last war. "This long task at which so many people have worked so patiently over the years is one which which I have been very happy to be associated with in the past. "A great deal of original thinking has gone into the planning and building of this hospital - more can be done to cure and care for a patient than has ever been possible in the past. "However good its buildings and equipment must depend on the quality of its staff. Their work is more demanding than it has ever been. "Those of you who have been patients will remember the spirit of dedication which is the driving force among doctors and nurses and those who work with them." After the ceremony the Queen received a bouquet from 21-year-old student nurse Helen Ogilvie, Coventry-born, who has been at the hospital since it opened. The Queen was presented with a silver paperknife in a special casket as a memento of the occasion. As she was closing the lid of the casket she seemed to trap her fingers and said: "It would be fine if I lost the tip of my finger and had to stay here as a patient." At the maternity hospital she spoke to Dr. A. Burzaco and congratulated him on the recent successful delivery of Siamese twins, 30th June 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5128677: New robotic coal cutter seen here at work in the Bolsover Colliery Company Clipstone Colliery in Nottinghamshire 28th November 1946 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5128685: Ruskin Park House, Camberwell is where Jack Jones leader of the TGWU lives. Mr Jones had recently attacked high living and privileges amongst the top people in the Labour party and Trades Union Movement, 3rd October 1977 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5128686: Locomotive wheels seen here under going maintenance at the Southern Railways engine shed at Nine Elms July 1932 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5128690: Engelbert Humperdinck meets Miss World Contestants 15th November 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5128702: Mannequin seen here modelling the latest 1932 summer fashions, 1st July 1932 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130809: Members of the 222nd Birmingham Brownies at Kings Norton meet Mr Philip Ware.7th July 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130811: World War Two Air Raids, Birmingham, 10th April 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130813: World War Two Air Raids, Birmingham, 1st November 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130817: The glass tower entrance to the Lacarno Ballroom in Coventry. 29th December 1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130819: World War Two Air Raids, Birmingham, 9th April 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130822: Children Line up on a slide, c. 1949 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130827: H.V Morton the Birmingham Journalist who became famous for his books on travel. 19th June 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130831: Dolly Parton seen here at London Airport 16th April 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130856: Although British Railways officially finished with steam power on August 11, 1968, Alan Pegler's contract still allowed him to run Flying Scotsman on the mainline. As the sole steam locomotive on BR, a good crowd turn out to see it at Leamington Spa on September 30, 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130869: Weymouth boys play on coast with telescope in the Dorset seaside town. 1st July 1937 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130881: CID officers investigating a series of murders in London, commonly known as the Hammersmith Nude Murders, receive briefing from senior police officers at Shepherds Bush Police Station February 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130886: Samantha Fox finalist Miss Sunday People competition, aged 16 years old, pictured at home January 1983 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130891: Caribbean Festival, Alexandra Park, Manchester, 28th May 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130897: Samantha Fox contestant Miss Sunday People competition, aged 16 years old, pictured at home in kitchen January 1983 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130899: Salford, Manchester, 16th July 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130902: Salford, Manchester, 16th July 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130904: Salford, Manchester, 16th July 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130908: Salford, Manchester, 16th July 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5130912: Salford, Manchester, 16th July 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images