MPX5081493: Individual leader was 19 year old Welshmen Mike Jones who after 15 hours in the Indian Tea Centre had drunk 87 cups of tea - one of 11 students from the same college attempting the world tea-drinking record - all in aid of Cancer Research. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079699: Joseph Nicephore Niepce, French inventor, c 1800 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079705: Joseph Nicephore Niepce, French inventor, c 1800 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079713: The bubble bath now standing at platform 7. The peace and tranquility of Sunday morning at Victoria Station was pleasantly disturbed by this delicious actress AVA Cadell, testing the HUG. 23 / 02 / 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079716: Demonstrations. Beauty contest. Women protest outside Miss World Contest. Parading outside the Albert Hall tonight. Members of the Womens' Liberation workshop carried banners proclaims their N principles. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079719: Beauty Contests: "Miss World", 20 year old Eva Reuber-Staler, awoke at the Waldorf Hotel this morning to her first day as "Miss World". Champagne started the day when she gave a press conference - then it was off to the Mansion House to meet the Lord Mayor... Then a round of shopping. "Miss World" pictured in her hotel room. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079724: The bubble bath now standing at platform 7. The peace and tranquility of Sunday morning at Victoria Station was pleasantly disturbed by this delicious actress AVA Cadell, testing the HUG. 23 / 02 / 1975 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079727: Every morning in the famous London Palladium, 30 charladies clean out the theatre. This morning there were 31 but the odd one was famous comedian Billy Dainty. Billy will appear in the Palladium's Christmas panto, "Dick Whittington", starring Tommy Steele and Mary Hopkin. Billy will play the Dame, and has to do domestic work, so he thought he would mix in with the ladies with their buckets and mops and try his hand at charing. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079732: Kodak' sandcastle on the beach, c 1910 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079735: Robert Hunt, British photography pioneer, mid-19th century / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079745: This little girl is enjoying her hot dog more than the occassion, Newcastle's West End Communities Festival, c. 1970 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079754: Two children by bathing machines, c 1895, A snapshot photograph of two children at the seaside, standing amongst a group of bathing machines on the beach / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079757: Entertainment Music Opera: Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom plays Melisande when she opens on Monday night at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in the opera "Pelleas et Melisande" by Debussy. The male lead in the opera - Pelleas is played by George Shirley the American tenor. Pictured back-stage having her wig combed by wig manufacturer, Albert Sargood, is Elisabeth Soderstrom. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079767: The singing sisters from the "Daughters of Jesus" Convent, Rickmansworth, November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079768: Girls paddling beside bathing machines, c 1900 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079772: Beach entertainer, Broadstairs, Kent, c 1910 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079773: Franz von Kobell, mid 19th century / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079779: Places London, England. A man eating fish and chips looking at a woman, standing on the bank of the river Thames near the Houses of Parliament. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079784: Seaside weighing chair, c 1900 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079787: Walter Bentley Woodbury, English photographic inventor, c 1870s / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079788: Places London, England. A man eating fish and chips looking at a woman, standing on the bank of the river Thames near the Houses of Parliament. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079794: Louis Bleriot at Dover on his 21st anniversary of his First Channel Flight. July 1929 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079795: Places London, England. A man eating fish and chips looking at a woman, standing on the bank of the river Thames near the Houses of Parliament. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079796: Paul Pretsch, c 1860 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079803: Man and woman looking through a rubber ring on beach, c 1935 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079807: Politics: Jack Straw, 23, The new President of the 400,000 Strong National Union of Students, speaking at the conference today. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079809: Jacob Husnik, Czechoslovakian printer, late 19th century / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079813: Politics: Jack Straw, 23, The new President of the 400,000 Strong National Union of Students, speaking at the conference today. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079819: Frederick Ives, American inventor, late 19th-early 20th century / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079829: Politics: Today the Home Secretary, Mr. Jim Calliaghan met Chief Constables at a conference to discuss plans for the future crowd control at the Springbok rugby tour. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079830: Workmen by a brazier, c 1925 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079831: Louis Ducos du Havron, French physicist and inventor, c 1900 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079843: Woman poses in the studio wearing a black mini dress. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079851: Corolyn Smith in see through dress. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images

UIS5079865: Albert Abraham Michelson, American physicist, 1878 / Bridgeman Images

MPX5079873: Mountain of Sugar Beet outside Brigg Sugar Factory: Great hills of sugar beet like this have been forming outside Lincolnshire sugar factories in the past few days - a result of the above average crop. Deliveries to factories are now to be regulated by a coupon system to prevent over- stocking. October 1949 / Bridgeman Images