MPX5139170: When Vera Robinson started raising funds for Redcar lifeboats, they were still powered by oars and launched by horses. And as the former teacher turned 100 yesterday, she said she had no plans to stop her efforts. Vera is one of the RNLIs longest-serving fundraisers and her birthday was marked with a special ceremony hosted by the Mayor of Redcar and Cleveland. Speaking at the event, Vera said: Although Ive given up a lot of activities, I wont give up the Remembrance and lifeboat work. Today will make no difference to my activities. Im not just going to sit at home because Im 100. I like to be out and meeting people. Im very fond of fresh air. I like to get out and about. I do my own shopping. Vera has been raising funds for the Redcar RNLI lifeboat station since the age of 16. Vera Robinson MBE when she was in the girl guides in the 1930s (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5139209: The huddled rooftops, the sprawling streets, green trees and multi-storey flats, long roads and wide open parks. They all add up to a panorama of Thornaby with the old village green and parish church in the foreground and the tree-bordered Village Park across Thornaby Road. Over to the right is the old airfield, now an industrial estate with Hinton's huge warehouse at the edge of the picture, In the centre are the new town's shopping precincts, the Golden Eagle Hotel, and the Thornaby Sports Pavilion, with behind them the high-rise blocks of flats, Hudson House and Anson House, standing like big brothers above their neighbours. 25th June 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5137407: Some of the crew of the R101 airship seen here at Cardington before embarking on a test flight of the airship. Left to right F Kemp (rigger), G Taylor (rigger), H Rowe (rigger), F Noble (engineer), Hector Ford (rigger) Charle Arthur Burton (engineer), Maurice Frank Littlekitt (engineer) J Binks (engineer), A Cook (engineer) and Wilfred Moule (engineer), 24th October 1929 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5137434: The sad and impressive scene at historic Westminster Hall when the coffins of the forty-eight men killed in the R101 disaster lay in honoured state. As officer and men of the R.A.F., the latter with arms reversed, kept motionless guard beside the biers, around which were hundreds of beautiful wreaths, with that sent by the King and Queen at the head. An endless stream of people, numbering many thousands, passed in silent homage through the dimly-lit hall and paused reverently around the coffins, each of which was covered with the Union Jack., 10th October 1930 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images