UIS5093995: Official notice to spectators at a balloon ascent, 1785 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094000: Rachel Roberts rehearsing for "The Three Musketeers Ride Again" which has its first premiere at the Royal Court tonight, and special Christmas performances on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5094004: Germany : One hundred thousand men gathered together at the 1936 Nuremberg Rally of Honour / Bridgeman Images

UIS5094005: Germany : Men of the Motor Corps at the 1936 Nuremberg Rally of Honour / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094007: Former art student Julia Canning, aged 20 of Seaford, Sussex, is now a successful model. Posing wearing a mini dress and knee high boots. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5094009: Germany : Adolf Hitler inspects the new standards at the 1936 Nuremberg Rally of Honour / Bridgeman Images

UIS5094020: Demonstration of ballooning, c 1784 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094025: Midwife May Guthrie-Lacy photographs the 287th baby which she has delivered at Lytham Hospital. Two day old Nicola Manton and her mother 23 year old Christine will join all the others happy snaps in May Lacy's albums. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5094041: Germany : NSKK Korpsfuhrer Adolf Huhnlein (1881-1942) visiting his fellow corp commanders at the 1936 Nuremberg Rally of Honour / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094054: Rachel Roberts, estranged wife of actor Rex Harrison with Alexis, one of the Russian dancers in the new Christmas show The Three Musketeers Ride Again at the Royal Court. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5094064: 'A View of the Balloon of Mr Sadler's Ascending', 12 August 1811 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5094083: Germany : Saluting the flags at the 1936 Nuremberg Rally of Honour / Bridgeman Images

UIS5094089: The ascent of Blanchard's 'Vaisseau Volant', 2 March 1784 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094093: Royal Party at Hook. Balloon Barrage with the King and Queen and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in attendance. April 1939 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094094: Alfieri. Army Training. No.30 Physical Development Centre. Barracks. 1942 1st May 1942 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094095: It's a dustbinman's dream... a bin-full of glamour girls! December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5094096: Germany : Anti-tank gun demonstration at the 1936 Nuremberg Rally of Honour / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094098: Alfieri. Civil Guard pours out drinking water during Invasion Exercises, Kingston, London. October 25th 1942 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094108: Frankie Howerd sailing into the sunshine for Christmas on Royal mail liner "Andes" from Southampton Frankie is to appear in caberet on the ship which is to be away 17 days, cruising to the Canary Island. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5094125: Blanchard and Jeffries crossing the English Channel, 1785 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5094126: Germany : Girls from the Labour Service at the 1937 Nuremberg Rally of Work / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094129: Boxer Alan Rudkin arriving at London Airport, back from his World Title bid against Ruben Olivares today. He tried to win the World Bantamweight Championship in Los Angeles A welcoming kiss from his wife Cathy and son Jeremy December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5094131: 'Blanchard's 28th Flight to Nuremberg', Germany, 12 November 1787 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5094134: 'Overpopulation', satirical ballooning sketch, 1851 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094135: Alfieri. Air Raid damage, Kingston, London. An overturned car rests at an unusual angle. August 25th 1940 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5094139: Boxer Alan Rudkin arriving at London Airport, back from his World Title bid against Ruben Olivares today. He tried to win the World Bantamweight Championship in Los Angeles A welcome home from his son Jeremy December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5093243: Reveille fashions 1961: Stella Grove. March 1961 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5093257: Fashion scene from Woolworth's. Woman wearing a bikini standing in the park with a little girl February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5093259: Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist, c 1810s / Bridgeman Images

MPX5093261: Divers while away some time reading their local newspaper on a charity dive, 1970 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5093267: Fashion scene from Woolworth's. Two old men sitting on a park bench distracted by models in bikini February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5093272: Richard Morton, British physician, late 17th century / Bridgeman Images

MPX5093274: Fashion scene from Woolworth's. An old man sitting on a park bench reading his newspaper next to a model in bikini February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5093275: William James, British railway pioneer, c 1800 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5093282: Fashion scene from Woolworth's. Woman wearing a bikini standing in the park with a little girl February 1975 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5093283: Poland : Poles read the first German announcements posted on the same board as a Polish mobilization poster / Bridgeman Images