MPX5092408: Strip Freeze. Models Verna Clarke and Thelma Drabble were happy to find this warm spot yesterday (14-1-59) at London's White House swimming pool. While everyone else was wrapping up against the icy weather Verna and Thelma had to strip off to parade at a swimsuit fashion show. Verena's bikini is in printed cotton lastex with a built - in bra and Thelma's is in cotton poplin. January 1959 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5090835: Clothing. John and Shirley are ready to go in Jersey. His beige Swedish stretch jump suit, in zipped-up battledress style, costs 20 guineas, from Just Men, London, SW3 Her bright canary-yellow pants suit has a flare-line button-through top which can be worn as a mini coat-dress. Price £10 at Mates, Oxford Street, London. January 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5093647: Scotland Yard today started a massive hunt for Mrs. Muriel McKay wife of Mr. Alex McKay a director of the News of the World. She vanished from her home in Arthur Road, Wimbledon (Monday night). There were signs of a forced entry. Today police combed Wimbledon Common and were led by Chief Supt. William Smith who was in charge of the case, and Det. Insp. Johnny Mynors. A picture of Mrs. McKay is stuck on the wall outside her house for photographers to copy. December 1969 / 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