MPX5132331: Miss UK and baby of the year 1967. Jennifer Lewis and other contestants. 21st August 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132340: Miss UK 1969. Sheena Drummond from Scotland with her mum.. 22nd October 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132358: Don Powell, drummer with Slade, was badly injured in a serious car crash in Wolverhampton, in which his girlfriend Angela Morris was killed, 4th July 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132370: A series of pictures taken 22 October 1972 depicting that the nightlife and a night out on the town has never changed in Newcastle, 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132397: Action from the England v USA Amateur Boxing contest at Wembley 2nd November 1961 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132403: Tom and Jack Bull, brothers whose partnership has produced thousands of valuable rings, at work. 20th January 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132409: Three of the Tremeloes pop group who are to be married - L/r Carol Dilworth with bass guitarist Chip Hawkes, Lyn Stevens with Alan Blakley, and Dave Munden and Andree Wittenberg. 11th September 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132412: Susan Shaw, model and actress, November 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132424: Cadbury's Sunshine factory nearing completion in Birmingham (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132436: The launching of the Cunard Line luxury ocean liner RMS Queen Elizabeth at John Brown shipyard on the River Clyde, being pulled by tug The Flying Eagle 27th September 1938 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132463: PC George William Allen 27 (left) and PC Harry Cautherley 28 (centre), pictured on a interlocked police motorcycle combination, c. 1930 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132478: London Bus in the fog, 20th November 1949 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132481: Day in the life of the Temple, May 4th 1948 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132493: Mr Philip Yorke takes a trip around the grounds of his house on a Penny Farthing. He has been trying to give away his family home for five years, and now the National Trust has decided to take the house, full of priceless treasures, including the Penny Farthing, Erdigg Hall, Wrexham, North Wales, 29th May 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132505: RAMC Stretcher bearers show how to camouflage themselves and their casualty with branches of trees evade capture October 1941 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132508: Members of a rescue squad giving treatment to a wounded dog who survived last nights air raid 23rd May 1941 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132514: Maureen Murphy, Kibblesworth in Tyne and Wear, 30th November 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132538: Scene at Croydon as French aviator Louis Bleriot arrives for twenty year commemoration ceremonies in England, after having again flown the Channel in one of his own planes, a Bleriot 127 bomber (pictured centre). Armstrong 27th July 1929 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132547: Army Women. A.T.S. Want More Drivers and mechanics. An appeal has been issued for another 600 drivers by the A.T.S. This Study shows woman busy on repairs at Dept. near Nottingham, March 1941 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132562: The Tornados pop group l-r Heinz Burt, George Bellamy, Roger Lavern, Alan Caddy and Clem Cattini with fans looking in through the window of the foyer at the Alpha Television Studios, Aston, Birmingham. 10th December 1962 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132565: The army fire service in training September 1943 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132586: Trodden by the feet of generations, The Black Gate, once a main entrance to the city of Newcastle, remains little changed by the passage of time. The Black Gate was the last addition to the medieval Castle defences. A gardener is pictured here, tending the fine display of yellow tulips in front of the building. 10th May, 1949 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132592: The five members of the Tornados pop group Heinz Burt, George Bellamy, Roger Lavern, Alan Caddy and Clem Cattini stand beside Clem Cattini's new Zodiac car. 7th November 1962 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5132601: Jaguar Cars entrance, Browns Lane, Coventry. 4th March 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133433: Beryl Swain waiting to weigh in for the 50cc race. 7th June 1962 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133445: Tommy Cooper, pictured at home, February 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133448: Millions of waxed cartons went up in flames in a spectacular blaze in Newcastle.16th October, 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133454: Choirboys of St. Andrew's parish Church chair, Corbridge, Nicholas Fearon (front), and (left to right) Edward Milner, Nolan Robson and Simon Milne call for volunteers on September 9, 1985 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133481: Millions of waxed cartons went up in flames in a spectacular blaze in Newcastle.16th October, 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133505: Hundreds of militant women, members of the Women's Liberation Movement marched through London on 6th March 1971 in the biggest all female demonstration since the days of the suffragettes, 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133508: Palmer's shipyard in Jarrow.. 19th September, 1935 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133526: Into the arena come some of the mighty steam giants at the steam traction engine rally near Chester-Le-Street on 10th July 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133547: Pop Group Dollar, David Van Day and Thereza Bazar, in Newcastle to launch the Fun to be Young event 1 May 1981 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133562: Re enactment of the storming of the Bastille at Pinewood Studios as part of the making of a cinematic version of Charles Dickens "A Tale of Two Cities", September 1957 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133571: John Tholen chief executive of the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority seen shortly after the naming ceremony for the £2.7 million dredger Heortnesse. 12th December 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5133598: The familiar figure of Frank Hewson, who has been a barrow boy in Newcastle all of his life, on 3rd August 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images