MPX5079256: Preview to Santa Clause: Wherever there are toys, sure enough there are children. No matter where the playthings are hidden, a water diviner couldn't do better then a child for finding where they are. Here is a toy cargo from America ready for Christmas, and sure enough here's kiddy taking a peep at the things to come. November 1944 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5079338: Mill chimneys in Brook Yard, Hipperholme, near Halifax, were demolished. Susan Heviour, Josephine Woodhouse, Ruth Collins, and Patricia Fairbank, fifth form students at Brighouse Heathfield Secondary Modern School, hold their ears as the last crack goes to demolish the biggest chimney of them all. October 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080399: Following the spate of airliner hijackings by Arab guerillas on Sunday (6-9-70), airlines all over the world have been having another look at their security arrangements, and tightening up where possible. British Oversea Airways Corporation are no exception. British aircraft are particularly threatened with hijacking attempts as hijacker Leila Khaled is being held in custody in Britain following her abortive attempt to sieze an Israeli El Al Boeing 707. The British Government have been presented with an ultimatum by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, demanding Leila's release. BOAC have installed a new detection device at London's Heathrow Airport on Monday (7-9-70). The device sounds an alarm if a passenger is a carrying a metal object - like a bomb. BOAC passenger Sandra Hook tests the new anti-hijacking device at Heathrow. September 1970 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080442: Teachers in the Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne schools, if they were to casually walk near wayside Benwell, any afternoon after 4 p.m. would soon find the cause for that extra bit of unrest and anticipation towards the end of the days schooling... for "Uncle Andy" the toy man is at the kerbside displaying his Xmas fare. Andy Bell of Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, is "Uncle" to hundreds of kiddies in the area. Each afternoon his little black Van is packed to the roof with dolls, train sets , blackboards, modeling sets, mouth organs and everything the Toddlers could wish for. October 1949 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080526: Fashion Clothing Humour. Young male model David Kempton from East Croydon, started work today at the new Young male menswear boutique in Kensington Church Street. His presents there could make the pre-Christmas customers look more than once at him, in fact if they stay long enough they could see him wearing 288 different outfits, for David will be on a marothon clothes change untill Thursday, making six changes an hour, day and night, to set up a new world record for Clothes Changing. David Kempton at the 'Take 6' making a hurried change. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080551: "The Barber " (left) faces an opponent, Mr. T. Watson, of Bermondsey, across the four-by-four draught board. Mr. Watson seems to be having quite a problem plotting his next move, which isn't surprising, for in all the years the Barber has been playing the game he hasn't yet been beaten. July 1947 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080584: Ian Newman (19) a car salesman in Hounslow was getting worried as every time he got a new girlfriend and took her to dances other men who took a fancy to his girl would steal off with her and so Ian was left girl-less. But now he has the solution provided for him by hairdresser Len Pountney who has designed a long pigtail from Ian's hair that connects to Gloria Wootton (15) a florist, so that now everywhere the couple goes they are linked together. Ian Newman and Gloria Wootton linked in the high street today. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080701: The new NFS march was played in church for the first time on Wednesday when members of the Fire Service and representatives of all branches of the Civil Defence assembled to honour the memory of two firemen who died in the service of their King and country. The firemen, Edward Arthur Rosebridge and George Christain Cert, were killed when their station was partially demolished by a flying bomb. Rosebridge and Cert who had so often stood shoulder to shoulder while fire fighting lay side by side in coffins on top of which rested the axes and helmets that had belonged to them. The organist was Company Officer D.A. Ridley and NFS comrades formed a guard of honour. August 1944 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080707: Politics. Fred Mulley Minister of Transport outlined his plans for a Christmas safety drive to Sunday Mirror motoring correspondent Roy Spicer this afternoon. Amongst the literature was a large poster and a driving manual which Mr. Mulley suggested (the manual) would be an ideal Christmas present for every driver. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080746: Sadler's Wells Opera Company will make TV history on Thursday, 4th December when on that day two colour commercials advertising their new opera "Lucky Peter's Journey's" by Malcolm Williamson will be screened. The girl who is speaking the commercial and is on the screen is 28 year old Davina Taylor, and the principal tenor in "Lucky Peter's Journey" Francis Edgerton wearing the "Loki" mask he wears in the opera. Also pictured walking in the Euston Road. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images