MPX5119034: Seona Dawkins is taking a crash course in shorthand and typing - because she wants to be a singing star. Seona, 19, from Enfield, Middlesex, has to brush up her secretarial work for a new job she has just landed in the office of a music-publishing firm. Her duties including making demonstration records. And Seona hopes that will lead to a breakthrough into showbusiness, March 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5118527: What started as just a routine August day at Middlesbrough station, 1942 ended in terror. A German dayliht raid scored a direct hit on the overall roof, causing it to partially collapse, trapping a train underneath, crushing the coaches and wrecking the tank engine, 3rd November 1942 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images