MPX5087952: As part of Liverpool's keep death off the roads campaign this Christmas a low loader is touring the city with a smashed up car aboard. To give the campaign a send-off, two beauty queens and a personality girl drank a toast in milk to wish the campaign success. The beauties were the National Dairy Queen, Miss Gaynor Lacey, 20, the National Railway Queen of British Rail, Miss Marilyn Pope, 18, and Miss Littlewood, Miss Ida Bailey, 24. 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
MPX5080442: Teachers in the Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne schools, if they were to casually walk near wayside Benwell, any afternoon after 4 p.m. would soon find the cause for that extra bit of unrest and anticipation towards the end of the days schooling... for "Uncle Andy" the toy man is at the kerbside displaying his Xmas fare. Andy Bell of Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, is "Uncle" to hundreds of kiddies in the area. Each afternoon his little black Van is packed to the roof with dolls, train sets , blackboards, modeling sets, mouth organs and everything the Toddlers could wish for. October 1949 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080526: Fashion Clothing Humour. Young male model David Kempton from East Croydon, started work today at the new Young male menswear boutique in Kensington Church Street. His presents there could make the pre-Christmas customers look more than once at him, in fact if they stay long enough they could see him wearing 288 different outfits, for David will be on a marothon clothes change untill Thursday, making six changes an hour, day and night, to set up a new world record for Clothes Changing. David Kempton at the 'Take 6' making a hurried change. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080551: "The Barber " (left) faces an opponent, Mr. T. Watson, of Bermondsey, across the four-by-four draught board. Mr. Watson seems to be having quite a problem plotting his next move, which isn't surprising, for in all the years the Barber has been playing the game he hasn't yet been beaten. July 1947 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080584: Ian Newman (19) a car salesman in Hounslow was getting worried as every time he got a new girlfriend and took her to dances other men who took a fancy to his girl would steal off with her and so Ian was left girl-less. But now he has the solution provided for him by hairdresser Len Pountney who has designed a long pigtail from Ian's hair that connects to Gloria Wootton (15) a florist, so that now everywhere the couple goes they are linked together. Ian Newman and Gloria Wootton linked in the high street today. November 1969 / 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