MPX5133139: Children look longingly at toys into shop window at Christmas, 16th December 1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133151: The destroyer HMS Glasgow puts to sea from the River Tyne on her way to Portsmouth to be handed over to the Royal Navy. The Swan Hunter built HMS Glasgow was the fifth Type 42 destroyer to enter service. 8th March, 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133166: Michelle Lane model 16th August 1975 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133184: Pamela Stephenson, actress and comedienne, stars in the BBC comedy satire Not The Nine O'Clock News. 21st November 1980 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133187: The 20,000 ton BP tanker British Sportsman, built on the Tyne in 1951 by Swan Hunter, awaits her fate at Newcastle quayside. It was 99% certain at the time that she would be sold for scrap. 05/01/1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133190: Prince George and Princess Marina - The Duke and Duchess of Kent The Princess leaving 3 Belgrave Square, London, c. 1 June 1939 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133202: Another airport lounge? The DC 10s are (from left) Jamie Drake, Chris Sanderson, Kon Piergies and Colin Stacey 18 November 1980 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133211: King Edward VIII - Abdicated 10 December 1936 then became the Duke of Windsor Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, arriving at Southampton onboard the Queen Elizabeth 16 May 1947 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133217: Joseph Kennedy (R) with British PM Winston Churchill and Sumner Welles (L) at the Admiralty, 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133229: Babies born on Christmas Day 1973 appear in The Coventry Evening Telegraph with their mothers. 27th December 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133241: ABA middleweight champion Willie Stack, of Leamington Boys Club, during a fight, c. 1960s (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133250: English League Division One match at Maine Road. Manchester City 2 v Manchester United 0. Ray Wilkins of United. 10th November 1979 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133277: Rita Tobin (centre) seen here as a film extra re enacting the storming of the Bastille at Pinewood Studios as part of the making of a cinematic version of Charles Dickens "A Tale of Two Cities", September 1957 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133289: Musical Youth, British Jamaican pop / reggae group, at Capital Radio studios in London where they are helping to launch a road safety campaign involving glitter discs 8th October 1982 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133322: The signing of the pact of mutual assistance between the governments of USSR and Great Britain in the war against Germany. Sir Stafford-Cripps signing the document watched by l-r: Kozyrev, Russell, Potrubatch, Dunlop, Molotov, Stalin and trant. 1940s (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133349: North East band The Days (L to R) Mickey Deans, Bob Gorman, Bill Brown and Tommy Ross at the Manors Club in Newcastle 5 April 1975 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133364: Johnny marches The Bee Gees through London as he gives them a taste of what's to come, 29th March 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133068: Muhammad Ali visits the co-op and Birmingham New Street railway station during his promotional tour for Ovaltine before hosting a press conference at the Albany Hotel. 13th October 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133084: Children dance to the sound of a barrel organ in one of London's Bombed Streets 5th February 1941 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133089: Knole House, English country house in Sevenoaks, west Kent., c. 1920 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133102: Children playing Cricket 25th May 1955 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133108: Scottish crime boss Arthur Thompson (far right) with two policeman examining his Jaguar car, c. 1966 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133119: Children look longingly at toys into shop window at Christmas, 16th December 1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133168: Lieutenant Commander Peter Marshall of HMS Ark Royal pictured with his wife Carolyn, holding one of their new born baby twin boys accompanied by their other eight children Kathryn, Ginny, Richard, Melanie, Sally, Carl, Kirstie and Christopher. 24th August 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133180: Prince George and Princess Marina - The Duke and Duchess of Kent North East Royal Visits The Princess dressed to go underground on her way to the pit-head during her visit to Horden Colliery in Durham, c. 15 October 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133125: Former British European Heavyweight champion boxer Joe Bugner kisses his new born baby son Lajos James after his birth at Hill Road Maternity Hospital in Cambridge. 16th May 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133134: Hundreds of Methodists from Coventry came together in the city for a musical celebration of the 250th anniversary of their church. 24th May 1988 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133261: A Handley Page Halifax No 6 Group of RAF Bomber Command over the target during a daylight raid on the oil refinery at Wanne-Eickel in the Ruhr, 12 October 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133297: Musical Youth, British Jamaican pop / reggae group, return to school, Duddeston Manor School, and are greeted by deputy headmaster John Cook 2nd November 1983 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133182: The Desert City Six seen on their arrival in Newcastle, on August 25, 1986 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133318: WW2 - British tanks landed in the Dieppe area of France on 19th August 1942 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133185: Prince George and Princess Marina - The Duke and Duchess of Kent North East Royal Visits The Duke of Kent on his arrival at Cramlington (Newcastle Airport), on route to visiting the Royal Show in Newcastle, the Duke's dog which flew with him is seen in the centre 3 July 1935 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133345: The advance south of Le Beny Bocage continues. British infantry are seen here rushing past the burning remains of a farmhouse in pursuit of the enemy. The Germans had been using the buildings as their quarters. August 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133351: WW2 Belgian citizens welcome British troops to Brussels by jumping on a British tank and riding through the city. 3rd September 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133254: David Bowie at his home, Haddon Hall, at Beckenham, Kent, 20th April 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133272: Winston Churchill examining the "Dragon's Teeth", part of the Siegrfried line anti tank defences neat the German town of Aachen March 1945 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images