MPX5121087: Singer Jonathan King, July 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121043: Mike Yarwood outside Buckingham Palace after receiving the O.B.E, December 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121117: Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher, March 1979 with Airey Neave Tory spokesman on Northern Ireland who was murdered in a car bomb in the House of Commons Underground Car Park, March 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121067: George Burns, U.S. comedian, May 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121076: Knowing hat their output helps Britain's export drive, the workers of this big Birmingham bicycle factory completely filled the factory's store after their Bank Holiday rest. In the first half of 1948, 855,156 British cycles were sold abroad. Working Women August 1948 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121141: Hua Kuo Feng Chairman of the Chinese Peoples Republic greeting Margaret Thatcher British Prime Minister in London. 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121091: Open Tandem 30 Race near Bishops Stortford, May 1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121186: King George VI and Queen Elizabeth / Queen Mother visit bomb damaged London, 1940s (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121017: Disc. Jockey: Kenny Everett seen here in his home studio, February 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121148: Soldiers of the 8th Army receive a great welcome from local Sicilian girls as the port of Catania on the Eastern coast of Sicily, fell to the 8th army just four days after launching the Allied offensive August 1943 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121154: People gather late at night in Trafalgar Square to witness the first Moon landing on a giant tv screen erected for the event. people stand around the fountains and pools, Trafalgar Square London, July 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121237: Plymouth's team of women navvies completing their Blitz-time ambition - worked side by side with men before, but this time, with one of their team of six acting as supervisor, they've brought the house down, unaided. They love the work and will continue as an all-women gang in future, August 1947 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121160: Soldiers of the 8th Army receive a great welcome from local Sicilian girls as the port of Catania on the Eastern coast of Sicily fell to the 8th army just four days after launching the Allied offensive August 1943 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121077: Winston Churchill British Prime Minister shaking hands with people on the street during war time, c. 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121083: George Burns, U.S. comedian, May 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121193: Mr Winston Churchill made Chancellor of Bristol University 1929 with Adm. Sir R. Keyes Mr Winston Churchill Miss Margaret Bondfield Mr Philip Snowden, 14/12/1929 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121104: A Cambridge Student with his foot in bandages and sitting on his bike is towed by another pushbike. Sign on bike says Caution - On Tow, May 1949 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121229: Winston Churchill Home Secretary attends a meeting in Waltham Abbey to address a crowd of workers 1924 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121143: War shipping convoy in WW2 October 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121253: Defence of Malaya. Bren carriers manned by British troops advance through the Malayan jungle. 8th December 1941 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121161: Berlin Air Lift 1948, June 1948 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121182: Bringing the Pub up to date. On Sunday 20th July the first man landed on the Moon. On the same day the Public House "Man in the Moon", at West Heath, Birmingham was re-named "Man ON the Moon", and a new sign was erected depicting Armstrong and Aldrin on their historic voyage, 21st July 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121191: Basic training 1978 style - Police cadets learn how to deal with a riot situation - police cadets protect themselves against the bricks and rubble attack, 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121212: A British soldier helping the local villagers with the winepress after the Allied army invasion and liberation of Southern Italy and Sicily November 1943 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121218: Procter and Gamble staff at their staff canteen in 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121221: Wartime food rationing - people queuing up for their shopping - bread rationing. View from outside bakery, showing villagers taking loaves of bread. Hambrook, 25th May 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121224: First all Jewish army brigade in the British army, 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121227: A building in Grays Inn Road, London on fore after a night of bombing in the blitz during the Second World War, April 1941 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121245: Winston Churchill with his wife Clementine Churchill during the Abbey by election 1924 is handed a leaflet by a man, March 1924 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121266: Soldiers of the American Army choir singing during an Easter Sunday service at a bandstand in Hyde Park during the Second World War April 1943 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121291: Women residents of London making themselves a little fire for a morning cup of tea in the street, the day after an air raid May 1941 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121306: A Highland piper on duty one of the crusader's ancient battlements on the island of Cyprus during the Second World war June 1941 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121321: Fakir, Frank Pepper seen here eating fire, January 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121324: A picture of a nosy Beagle, 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121330: The odd couple an Afghan Hound and a Pekingese, 1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5121345: Combine harvesters at work in the fields of Kent 26th August 1954 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images