MPX5158344: Traction Engines in race at Rally. A race between 10-ton traction engines, with policemen at the wheel, over a half-mile course, was one of the main attractions at a steam traction engine dally at Paris Hall Farm, Epping, the rally organized by the Epping police sports club in conjuction with the national traction engine club, was opened by the former light-heavyweight boxing champion of the world, Freddie mills. 1st October 1955 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5158497: Alpha Tower is a commercial building in Birmingham, England. It was built to a design by George Marsh of Richard Seifert & Partners as the headquarters of the commercial television company ATV and part of the companies' production studio complex known as ATV Centre. Now operated by the developers GVA Grimley, it provides office space for a number of companies and organisations, including Network Rail, Birmingham Arts Marketing, Jacobs Engineering, Glide Utilities, ORB and the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Birmingham City Council vacated the building in 2010. (Picture) New homes for the BBC and ATV network will be cable of full-scale production of programmes in colour. Rapid progress has been made in the erection of the new headquarters. 9th October 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5158627: The Christmas lights at Charing Cross, Birkenhead are tested before the offical switch on, Liverpool, Merseyside. The central tableau on the roundabout carries the figures of the Flintstones cartoon characters. The image, taken on a time exposure, shows the track of various car lights 23rd November 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images