MPX5087926: David Smith, a bright three year old from Pattingham, Staffordshire as you can see Santa arrived early this year for David bring a shining new Go Kart. However it is no ordinary Kart but Davids only method of transport for he is a victim of Spina Bifida and has no real use in his legs. The Kart has been specially designed and made by apprentices at a large Wolverhampton, Engineering Factory and was presented to David this week. The Kart which is used by David inside and outside his home is even fitted with a reverse gear. Now Home Office Officials are interested in producing the Kart in Prisons and Borstal Institution and it should sell for approximately £20. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5087958: It Looks like rain, deer! Paddy the rhino may not be everyones idea of babysitter. But there's no danger of her sitting on her little playmate. The rhino looks after the calf in a wildlife park at Burford, Oxfordshire, when its mother goes off for food. And Paddy makes sure the little dear leads a sheltered life. Under Cover: The calf, in the safe care of Paddy, its rhino babysitter. July 1979 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088202: East meets West under a traditional oiled paper umbrella. Willow (right) wears a glowing red silk kimono with a brilliant splash of embroidery on the back, price .50. NinaÍs kimono is Pacific blue patterned with flowers, price .50. Umbrella, .50. All are available from Mitsukiku, 73a Lower Sloane Street, London, S.W.1, and 18 Brighton Square, Brighton. Postage and packing 20p extra for kimonos, 30p for parasol. January 1973 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088229: By Maryse Usher. Take a gorgeous girl, pour her into some turquoise satin, and what have you got? Someone you canÍt take home to mother! Still, she could go anywhere else in this super-slinky set. The smock top has a V-neckline, and the long Bermuda shorts are so tight youÍll have trouble sitting down in them. Wow! In assorted colourways, sizes 10-14. Top costs .99, pants .99 from The Gallery, 234 KingÍs Road, London, S.W.3 and Marbles Arcade in Oxford St., London, W.1. Mail order, 20p extra. October 1973 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088244: When will we ever Learn? A seal lies dead on a bright blustery beach not for fro families enjoying their summer holiday. It is a seaside sna from Norfolk that should shame the Government. Experts say our seals are being killed off by a deadl distemper virus. And their immunity is being lowered by the millions of tons of chemical waste being poured into the North Sea every year. The pollution crisis is highlighted by the case of the poison-packed ship karin B, which was turned back from Britis ports yesterday. Each tide brings more victims to the shores where seals used the delight children as they splashed and played. Their brigh eyes are dimmed and their shiny coats dull in death. Paul Vodden of Greenpeach forecast, "We are talking about a ecological disaster, perhaps the biggest ever to hit Europe wildlife." Carried away...Another dead seal. September 1988 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5088289: Humour: Pictures of set of "Nude" furniture designed and sculpted by painter and graphic artist Allen Jones, aged 32. This is his second excursion into sculpture. The set comprises a table composed of a crouching female figure, supporting a plate of glass. Another "Nude" stands there with her hands outstretched. If you hang a hat on it it becomes a hat-stand, and of course there is a chair consisting of a girl with a seat on top. Allen Jones is an internationally reputed artist. He makes these figures in fibre-glass and leather. The artist's wife sits on the chair. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images