MPX5080830: Variety club's fashion show: A fashion show was staged today at Danny La Rue's club in Mayfair to raise money for childrens charities. All the models (except one) were professional actresses at today's show, giving their services free. They were, Joyce Blair, Patricia Bredin, Julia Foster, Aimi Macdonald, Hayley Mills, and Sheila White and one professional model, Hazel Newby. All the dresses were designed by Hazel Graham, and the comperes were Irene Handel and Nicholas Parsons. (Left to right) Joyce Blair, Aimi Macdonald, Julia Foster, Hazel Newby (model) Hayley Mills, Sheila White, and Patricia Bredin. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080869: No wonder Hugh Walters, the man with the car in this picture is smiling. He's lucky to be alive Lucky that he was not still sitting at the driving wheel when tons of rubble came crashing down in Lisle-street, Soho, yesterday ( and crushed his old saloon car. School teacher Walters, 27, left his home in Beatrice-avenue, Norbury, and drove into London to keep an appointment at a hospital in Soho. Friends had warned him: Be careful where you park your car. The police are always towing cars away. Hugh looked around carefully when he reached Lisle-street. There was a nice clear space near a hoarding. He parked there, nipped out and went to the hospital. Fifteen minutes later he returned - to Chaos. There were fire engines, ambulances, crowds and a pall of dust. A four- storey building under demolition had collapsed and fifty tons of brickwork lay in the roadway. Police had seen the danger and cleared the street of people in time. No one was hurt. The only casualty was Hugh's car. Hours later it was towed out, dented, smashed and bent. July 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080875: In one appalling moment, a busy road, a typical just-round-the-corner shopping street, in the Clarkston area of Glasgow, Scotland, became a street of horror. The street was packed with wives doing the shopping. Everywhere there was laughter and chatter as happy children played. Then, at 2.52 in the afternoon, there was a deafening blast. Like a pack of cards, eleven shops collapsed into rubble. Cars on a rooftop car park above them plunged into the debris. There were screams and cries for help amid the confusion as rescuers tried to save the victims. At least eleven people died in the terror. Another fifty-two were injured. The explosion is thought to have been caused by a gas leak. October 1971 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080887: Atlantic Flight in Round-The-World Attempt The monoplane "Pride of Detroit", piloted by Mr. N. S. Brock, and bearing Mr. E. R. Schlee, a millionaire oil magnate as passenger, landed at Croydon aerodrome yesterday after crossing the Atlantic. Mr. Schlee (left), the passenger, and Mr. Brock (centre), the pilot, being welcomed on their arrival at Croydon. October 1927 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080896: The men on the herring drifter Kindred Star out in the North Sea from Lowestoft, haul in their nets on their last voyage before Christmas with another of the fine hauls they have been getting lately to help ease the food situation. The 136 drifters working from Lowestoft have landed 144,000 cans of herring during the ten-week season roughly 108,000,000 fish. During those ten weeks the men of the Kindred Star, like most of their comrades on the other drifters, have spent only nine nights ashore. December 1947 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5079560: Education. Industrial Disputes: Teachers Strike: All the schools in the Ealing area were closed for the day because of the teachers pay claim dispute. 7 year old Bily Fuller of Stanhope Junior School, Greenford, leads the demonstration down the Broadway with his sister Ann (12) OC Costain Senior Girls School, Greenford. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5079569: 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
MPX5079868: Ray Ward aged 16 who played the title role in the West-End Hit Musical "Oliver" has given up acting to become a Postman. Today he was at London's West End Central Post Office as a messenger. Ray Ward having had a good lunch in the canteen comes back to the Chef to ask for more. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5079877: On a murky foggy December day between five to seven thousand Muslims of many nationalities assembled at a Islamic Cultural Centre in Regents Park to celebrate the Id-Ul-Fitr. Many marquees were put up for people to play in while the overspill knelt outside on prayer carpets, blankets and newspapers. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080062: Forty-nine people died when the French oil tanker Betelgeuse was ripped in half by two explosions at Gulf Oil's Whiddy Island terminal off the south-west coast of Ireland. Fifty thousand tons of crude oil exploded in a huge fireball. The death blast rocked towns and villages for twenty miles. January 1979 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080302: The Bio-Chemistry Department at Birmingham University houses a very unusual school - The British School of Malting and Brewing. Albert Wadeson, a technical assistant at Birmingham University's Department of Bio-Chemistry takes a specific gravity reading from beer brewed by students; in the background is the school's miniature brewery. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5080347: Four miles west of Manchester, between Stretford and Worsley, is one of the wonders of the waterway world - the Barton Swing Aqueduct, carrying the Bridgewater Canal across the Manchester Ship Canal. It was opened in 1893 to replace Brindley's 1761 stone aqueduct crossing what was at that time the Mersey and Irwell Navigation. Barton Swing Aqueduct February 1949 / Bridgeman Images