MPX5128558: Deep in the heart of Northumberland the 'Whisky Bottle MK.1' emerged on an unsuspecting world. Out of a hangar that doubles as a hayshed, onto the tarmacadam test runway - the road which skirts Bolam Lake, this prototype was jokingly hailed as a revolutionary concept in aviation. Its designers and builders, Daniel Whaley and Roland Johnson, don crash helmets for a 'test flight' , 09/08/1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127015: Before you ask what Greeg Harris is doing with a lump of four ply, prehaps we should mention that he is a champion weightlifter. He is illlustrating just how easy itis to knit yoiurself a Dooplegang for Christmas. Dopple as he's known to intimates is the latest cuddly toy from Patons and Baldwin. 22nd November 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127569: It was the end of six weeks' public dieting for the 12 Sunday Sun slimmers last Thursday. A packed audience came to Jopling's store, Sunderland, to see the final weigh-in of our brave contestants, and to watch two fast-moving fashion shows in which all the models were Sunday Sun readers 18 April 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127575: "Holidays with pay". The Ministry of Agriculture required 150,000 volunteers to help on the land; since April 14, 50,000 have applied. Surroundings, good food and plenty of fun. This series of pictures was taken at Oxenford Farm, an old monastery at Elstead, Surrey. Sheila Wells 19, typist, from Nottingham, is seen here being given the birthday bumps, 27th May 1947 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127417: Winston Churchill's visit to America; taken at the Port of Embarkation on board HMS Duke of York. At the Port of Embarkation. before the sailing of HMS Duke of York, the battleship in which he voyaged to America, Mr Churchill was seen off by his youngest daughter Mary, an N.C.O. in the A.T.S. Winston churchill returning his daughter Mary's salute as she wished her father "au revoir" and God-speed, before leaving the departing battleship. 27th January 1942 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5129573: The all-Merseyside edition of "Thank your lucky stars", Photographed at ABC's Alpha studios, Aston Cross, Birmingham. From Left- Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas, The Beatles, Cilla Black and The Searchers, Chris Curtis, Mike Pender, Tony Jackson and John McNally, 15th December 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images