MPX5100383: Womens: 1970's Fashions S/M: Jilly Johnson, January 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100420: American senator Edward Kennedy speaking to Doctor John Brotherson, Chief medical Officer for Scotland. Kennedy is on a 5 day visit to Britain as head of the Senate Health sub-committee, to study the National Health Service. 10th September 1971 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100187: The three-masted German barquentine Nauschutz lying at Newcastle Quayside discharging her cargo of china clay, c. 1930 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100426: "Hello" girl says goodbye at 79: Telephone operator Florrie Smith is saying goodbye to her job at the age of seventy-nine. The machines are taking over. Widow Florrie - pictured here at work on Monday (10-3-69) will sever her connection with the General Post Office when Newick exchange, Sussex, goes automatic on Wednesday (19-3-69). She will not be transferred to a different exchange because she doesn't want to travel to work. At Newick, where she has been on the switchboard since 1928, she has been living on the premises and doubling as the caretaker, too. Now she plans to move home. She plans to live nearby with her daughter. "I'd like to find an evening job, "she said, March 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100211: The Finnish sailing ship Killoran on the River Tyne, c. 1930 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100220: King Carl Gustav at Heathrow Airport today, January 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100238: The Norwegian training sailing ship Sorlandet leaving the River Tyne, c. 1920 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100286: Racehorse trainer Jenny Pitman with 1992 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner 'Garrison Savannah' (right) and hopeful 'Royal Athlete' at her stables in Lambourn, Berkshire, 29th March 1993 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100301: Cheltenham Gold Cup Winner 'Glencaraig Lady' ridden by Frank Berry is led in to the winner's enclosure, 16th March 1972 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100343: "The Shadows" for the Eurovision song contest with Lulu, January 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100416: American senator Edward Kennedy pictured with his wife Joan on arrival at Heathrow Airport in London. 17th April 1971 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100428: Wendy Richard seen here on the set of Carry on Girls at Pinewood studios April 1973 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100443: Mr. and Mrs. Gooder examine part of the structure they have discovered at the dig on the Arbury Estate, 2nd June 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100449: Unusual/Suit/Bowler Hat: Man Scraps Jaguar Car: On the other hand, Sales Director Mr. Graham Parkes, who says he can no longer afford to run his 15 mile per gallon Jaguar, and was disgusted at dealers' offers, decided to watch its destruction, February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100455: Gertrude Ederle, who became the first woman to swim the English Channel in 1926 with her father Henry Ederle, August 1926 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100458: Gertrude Ederle, who became the first woman to swim the English Channel, August 1926 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099896: 21 Year old Anne Rogers, The West End's youngest leading lady seen walking in Oxford Street, March 1954 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099905: Reveille Fashions. Mannequin modelling summer dress January 1961 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099950: London traffic in Knightsbridge looking towards Hyde Park Corner. 6th January 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099953: Werewolf Play: The hour of the Werewolf at the Unicorn children's theatre, January 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099962: Girl Guides (Janet Foreman), February 1965 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099971: Crowds celebration Victory in Japan Day in Albert Square, Manchester at the end of the Second World War. 15th August 1945 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5099998: The mobile operation section of the Wembley Civil Defence give a demonstration of how the job is done to crowds at Wembley stadium. 20th October 1942 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100016: Mr Mack, the Lighting Inspector for Hornsey Borough Council, with some of the hundreds of street gas lamps being maintained and overhauled at the Borough's depot, in readiness for the total lifting of the blackout. 19th September 1944 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100064: Actor: Telly Savalas (Kojack the Brooklyn cop on T.V.) is in London for a few days to film scenes in a Warner Brothers film called "Inside Out", February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100121: Elizabeth Taylor with Henry Wynberg seen here arriving at Heathrow Airport, February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100142: Linda Pierce and Bernard "Bernie" Cornfeld was a prominent businessman and international financier who sold investments in US mutual funds, January 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100163: Crew of a Royal Navy minesweeper seen here at action stations during coastal convoy duty off the south west coast of England, September 1942 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100169: A passing place - if you have a boat as flood waters cover the Bywell to Ovingham Road in 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100180: Geoff Hunt, sales manager of Airmaster Installations, Bensham Bank, Gateshead, does a King Canute impersonation in trying to stem the tide of floodwater at his factory in 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100186: Jean Wooler walking "Misty" the donkey, January 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100195: The grain ship Killoran at Tyne Dock on the River Tyne, c. 1930 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100201: The centre of Ovingham flooded after heavy overnight rain had forced up the level of the River Tyne in 1979 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100219: The four-masted Barque sailing ship Archibald Russell arrives on the River Tyne, c. 1940 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100246: Pop stars. A friendly gathering of the"Supersonic" stars. L/R Gilbert O'Sullivan, Gary Glitter, Alvin Stardust and Rod Stewart, January 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5100282: Retired racing legend 'Desert Orchid' out in his field with his new filly 'Gemini', 12th January 1992 / Bridgeman Images