MPX5078060: Cabaret artist and Britain's top singing coach Bob Anthony is performing a non-stop singing marathon in aid of charity. After training for 10 years, 18 hours a day, Bob realises his life's ambition and will show the world his modern singing and breathing techniques which hitherto have not been practised by any singer. Bob Anthony pictured during one of the 5-minute breaks at the Lyceum. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078075: Cabaret artist and Britain's top singing coach Bob Anthony is performing a non-stop singing marathon in aid of charity. After training for 10 years, 18 hours a day, Bob realises his life's ambition and will show the world his modern singing and breathing techniques which hitherto have not been practised by any singer. With over 15 hours on his feat. Bob Anthony relaxes with his feet in a bowl of water on stage at the Lyceum - still singing. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077861: At Temple Primary school in Keynsham, Somerset, Jackie the jackdaw, a few months old, dropped into school when he fell down the chimney. He was retrieved by headmistress Mrs. Dorothy Rudderham and he now joins in with school activities. Jackie the jackdaw pictured in the classroom with the pupils. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077864: Cabaret artist and Britain's top singing coach Bob Anthony is performing a non-stop singing marathon in aid of charity. After training for 10 years, 18 hours a day, Bob realises his life's ambition and will show the world his modern singing and breathing techniques which hitherto have not been practised by any singer. With over 15 hours on his feat. Bob Anthony relaxes with his feet in a bowl of water on stage at the Lyceum - still singing. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077882: Anne Howells (28) from Sale, Cheshire who is a member of the Royal Covent Garden Opera Company is to make her debut in the leading role of Rosina in the Barber of Seville. The conductor David Atherton (25) is conducting the opera, this being his first Rosini Opera. Anne Howells in the bride's costume as seen in the Barber of Seville. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077963: Tommy Steele who rode on the top of a stage coach as Dick Whittington in the Lord Mayors show changed, after travelling through City of London in the procession, in a police cell in Wood Street Police Station. Tommy changed out of the Dick Whittington costume into normal clothes. But not before throwing off his long wooly underwear that he wore to keep out the cold! November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5076137: Entertainment. Music: Margaret Savage who is making her debut as leading lady singer in "The Marriage of the Minsters" at London's Victoria Palace , meets the Scots Guards at Chelsea Barracks before they mount the Queen's Guards. Watched by Piper Iain Rodgers, Drummer Malcolm MacKenzie and L/Cpl David MacLeod, Margaret attempts to play the 'pipes'. They are all from Glasgow. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5076218: Entertainment television programs. Softly, Softly BBC 1's popular and long-running police series will be seen in colour for the first time starting 20th November 1969 . Susan Tebbs, plays police woman detective constable Donald in the series, who is one of the four new faces seen in the series. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5076224: World War II Women. In order to see the life and work which they themselves may one day have to undertake, members of a N.W. (Liverpool) company of the Girls' Training Corps recently paid a visit to a gun site manned by Ack-Ack girls. Pix shows the visitors learning how to use various instruments and apparatus on the site. September 1942 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078096: Jimmy Tarbuck will be playing "Buttons" in the pantomime Cinderella at the Odeon in Golders Green this Christmas. As Buttons does not have a beard Jimmy got to work in his dressing room and made some quick but painful strokes with his safety razor. Jimmy started growing the beard about five weeks ago will he was on holiday. Jimmy Tarbuck after the shave. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078108: Five big British warships for Scrapheap. Five of the most famous ships in the British Navy are to be broken up for scrap because they are no longer any use as fighting ships. They are the battleships, Queen Elizabeth (built 1915), Valient (1916), Nelson and Rodney (1927) and the battle cruiser Renown (1916). Even after expensive refits, the First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Hall, told a Press conference, they could not hope to have the speed needed for a modern fleet. "They would be of little value in any future war," he said. Seven cruisers unnamed, and a number of destroyers are also to be scrapped. Our picture shows HMS Nelson. Circa 1945 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078181: Clothing: It is called wow power. An outfit that says: "Look at me ãI'm terrific!" Big, bright bands of red, white and blue. A shape that is super. It gives you three different looksãa bikini, trousers and a long, flared skirt (not shown here) all matching. From Polly Peck, the set comes in cotton/Avril, sizes 10 to 14, and will be available in other colour combinations. The bikini costs £3.90, the trousers £6.85, and the swingy skirt (which goes up to size 16) £9.20. May 1973 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078236: The pick of the holidays: Men and women volunteer farm workers at the Herne, Kent, Ministy of agriculture camp all agree they've picked a grand holiday for themselves- and their picking is helping the country, too. This group is gathering gooseberries on a Kentish farm-twenty volunteers can pick 300 stone between 9 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. They get paid for their work, of course; and recreation provided for them includes coach trips, P.T. and the usual camp sports. July 1947 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078348: Aviation/Air/Accidents: An R.A.F. Transport Command Dakota aircraft got into difficulties after leaving Croydon today and crashed in the garden of a house in Mitchley Avenue, Purley, this evening. Two of the crew were killed and the rest injured. The wreckage of the aircraft. October 1945 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5076282: Entertainment: Television Programmes: Filming the "Man Hunt" series for London Weekend Television, actress Cyd Hayman is one of a trio of French resistance people escaping from occupied France. Cyd plays Anne-Marie Poitiers (code name Nina) and today she underwent a cold and wet day's filming as escape sequences were shot at Thames Weir near Marlow, Bucks. Cyd Hayman in the river during Fliming. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5076330: Clothing: By Maryse Usher. This is the gear for showing off a little leg here, a shoulder there. And if you feel like covering up, this super skirt and gypsy blouse to match does that very well, too. In black and chocolate brown printed cotton, by Spectrum, it costs £11 and comes in sizes 10-14. From The Gallery, 234 King's Road, London, S.W.3 (Mail order 20p extra). November 1973 / Bridgeman Images