MPX5133443: Tommy Cooper, pictured at home, February 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133168: Lieutenant Commander Peter Marshall of HMS Ark Royal pictured with his wife Carolyn, holding one of their new born baby twin boys accompanied by their other eight children Kathryn, Ginny, Richard, Melanie, Sally, Carl, Kirstie and Christopher. 24th August 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133180: Prince George and Princess Marina - The Duke and Duchess of Kent North East Royal Visits The Princess dressed to go underground on her way to the pit-head during her visit to Horden Colliery in Durham, c. 15 October 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133204: Museum technician Richard Miller was to knock out the dents in this giant auxetophone which was built by Parsons to aid musical instruments in big concert halls. After being treated at Shipley Art Gallery it will be returned to its stand at the Municipal Museum of Science and Industry, Newcastle in October 1975 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133210: Robert Kennedy (right) watches his younger brother Edward Kennedy cut the tape to open the Children's Zoo in Regents Park, London. They are the two youngest sons of the American Ambassador to London, Joseph Kennedy, June 1938 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133261: A Handley Page Halifax No 6 Group of RAF Bomber Command over the target during a daylight raid on the oil refinery at Wanne-Eickel in the Ruhr, 12 October 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133297: Musical Youth, British Jamaican pop / reggae group, return to school, Duddeston Manor School, and are greeted by deputy headmaster John Cook 2nd November 1983 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133306: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill with Soviet leader Josef Stalin in Moscow, August 1942 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133318: WW2 - British tanks landed in the Dieppe area of France on 19th August 1942 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133330: WW2 The White Patrol, British Recce Party in Germany very much on the alert in the Ardennes, January 1945 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133345: The advance south of Le Beny Bocage continues. British infantry are seen here rushing past the burning remains of a farmhouse in pursuit of the enemy. The Germans had been using the buildings as their quarters. August 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133351: WW2 Belgian citizens welcome British troops to Brussels by jumping on a British tank and riding through the city. 3rd September 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133363: The Liberation of France. Paris, US Anti-aircraft guns guard the bridges over the Seine with the Eiffel Tower in the background. September 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133396: North East schoolboy band Dependable Bodies (l to r) Allan Dryden, Paul Riley, Neil Finlay and Dave Preston, 1980 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133405: Scenes on the edge of the River Tyne.at Newcastle Quayside's Sunday Market 11th March, 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133411: The Pasadena Roof Orchestra in August 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133438: Millions of waxed cartons went up in flames in a spectacular blaze in Newcastle. 16th October, 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133447: Mr. James Crowe with the renovated Verbeck organ at Whitley Bay fairground in August 1976. 06/08/1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131063: American country singer Johnny Cash with his wife June Carter arriving at Heathrow Airport from New York. 2nd May 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131090: The Mayor of Warwick's Charity Fund received a £300 boost from the town's traditional Mop Fair ox roast. 14th October 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131111: Children of all ages and backgrounds line the route of the 1973 Hillfields Carnival. 8th June 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131123: Scenes from inside the shop window at Peter Robinson's Department Store, London. The Peter Robinson store was at 200-236 Oxford Street, c. 1946 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131147: Diana, Princess of Wales during a visit which took in Southfields, a group of sheltered homes for the elderly in Leamington, lunch at the Judges' House followed by a visit to the castle in Warwick. She is seen here during the Leamington part of the tour. 8th July 1986 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131073: The Lord Mayor of Coventry, Alderman Tom Meffen, helps the carnival queen, Miss Heather Kinnie on to her float to head the Coventry Carnival procession out of Memorial Park. 14th June 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131082: Diana, Princess of Wales during a visit which took in Southfields, a group of sheltered homes for the elderly in Leamington, lunch at the Judges' House followed by a visit to the castle in Warwick. She is seen here during a walkabout in Leamington. 8th July 1986 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131162: American rock and roll singer Bill Haley with his band The Comets in London shortly before their appearance at the Royal Albert Hall. 28th April 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131112: Norwich East Anglia England Riverside View, c. 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131198: Open air Sunday market at Pallion, Sunderland, 23rd, March 1975 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131222: Phil (left) and Don Everly, American singing duo The Everly Brothers, pictured in their suite at the Hilton Hotel in London. 13th September 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131208: The Aylesbury housing Estate tower blocks in South London, built in 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131237: Labour Party Leader Ramsay MacDonald seen here with leading women's trade unionist Mary Quaile entering the TUC building in London on the eve of the general strike. 3rd May 1926 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131214: World War Two - Second World War - British paratroopers, faces blackened and wearing camouflaged helmets, boarding their plane for their drop behind the German defence in Normandy at the start of D-Day. 6th June, 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131300: Mike Oldfield, musician and composer, pictured with new-born baby daughter Molly and partner Sally Cooper, 3rd December 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131223: Heavy metal group R & B Spitfires perform at the Newcastle Mayfair during the Sunday Sun "Night of Rock" in aid of the Charlie Bear Scanner Appeal 6 November 1981 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131247: American country singer and musician Johnny Cash poses for photographers at the Savoy Hotel in London. 17th September 1959 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5131336: St Patrick's Day Service, Birmingham, 17th March 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images