MPX5127575: "Holidays with pay". The Ministry of Agriculture required 150,000 volunteers to help on the land; since April 14, 50,000 have applied. Surroundings, good food and plenty of fun. This series of pictures was taken at Oxenford Farm, an old monastery at Elstead, Surrey. Sheila Wells 19, typist, from Nottingham, is seen here being given the birthday bumps, 27th May 1947 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127535: Fans of the Bee Gees pop group march along Carnby-street, collecting signatures for a petition to protest against the Home Office's refusal to let the group's two Australian-born musicians stay on in Britain after September 17. The placard-carrying fans also collected an order from the policeman in the picture. Move on, he told them. August 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images