MPX5093809: Play closes after one night. A new play that had its first night last night called "Thirteen for Dinner" at the Duke of York's Theatre last night received overwhelmingly bad notices from the critics this morning that Mr. Emile Littler decided to close the show immediately. Today at the Theatre two stars as seen in our photograph. (Left to right) Diana Decker and Miss Margareta Scott seen in their dressing room packing their bags. December 1953 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5093948: While most people today are trying to forget Christmas, workers at Napier Novelty Company Ltd in Rickmansworth, returned today and started to produce crackers for Christmas 1970. The firm produce about 4,000 dozen boxes per week and including paper hats. 49 year-old Mr. Leslie Seward from Hillingdon, surrounded by boxes of crackers, as he rolls samples for the trade. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5094029: The St. Mungo Community, a voluntary relief organisation among other things, operates a midnight soup run for vagrants, down and outs etc., around London. Two homeless on a bench, talking with hostel helper (kneeling) after receiving their soup on the Embankment Gardens. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images