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
MPX5087935: Whoês a Messy Polly? Crusading MP Tam Dalyell stretched out a hand to help the world's parrots yesterday. And what did he get for his trouble? A mucky suit, thatês what. This cockatoo sat on his arm in London and left a mark that didnêt match the pinstripes. Labour's talkative Tam, launching a parrot conservation campaign, glared at the squawking bird as though at Margaret Thatcher, and asked: Doesn't it remind you of someone? Who's a Messy Polly? October 1989 / Bridgeman Images
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
MPX5087718: Drink Public Houses Interiors, "The Admiral Napier" a Ramsgate pub is the home of the Ancient Order of tie chewers. A stranger who enters he pub is liable to have the end of his tie chewed off by a member. The frayed remains are then put on a piece of cardboard and added to the growing collection of tie ends on the walls of the bar. Two navel men have a go; Charles Page tears a strip off Leslie Mensh's neckwear. October 1945 / Bridgeman Images