MPX5089811: Arthur Mason is 23 years old he can box, wrestle, swim dive, ride horses, fence, dance (ballroom beep-bop and good at every sport) and has won 3 perfect Man competitions. He has a girl friend, Vera Day who played with him in "Fit as a Fiddle" and she soon learned that despite his figure, she had one just as good and so Arthur cannot lord it over Vera in the matter of torsos. Arthur is an East End boy and a part in his new film will be an East End boy, it is about boxing. And it is called Dangerous Return". Me once stowed away to America and served in Germany and Holland in the amry and won several boxing competitions. Of course Vera admits that Arthur's keep fit exercises has helped her a lot. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5090018: The Good Samaritans stand on parade in a hospital ward. They are some of the volunteers who stopped a small hospital from shutting down. They came to the rescue of matron Miss Queenie Graham after only two nurses turned up for duty. Most of her staff of 31 were victims of the flu epidemic which has hit Merseyside. But willing hands were ready when the call went out for helpers. Nearly 50 offers flooded the switchboard at the 50 bed Sir Alfred Jones Memorial Hospital, at Garston, Liverpool. December 1969 / 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