RM2J1BPXN–File photo dated 25/11/1953 of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh drive down the lines of 20,000 youngsters drawn up to greet them in Sabina Park, Kingston, during their visit to Jamaica. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge used the same Land Rover while attending the inaugural Commissioning Parade for service personnel from across the Caribbean who have recently completed the Caribbean Military Academy's Officer Training Programme, in Kingston, Jamaica, as part of their tour pf the Caribbean. Issue date: Thursday March 24, 2022.
RM2J1BYC8–RETRANSMITTED AMENDING CAPTION SAYING THAT THIS IS A SIMILAR LAND ROVER AND NOT THE SAME ONE File photo dated 25/11/1953 of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh drive down the lines of 20,000 youngsters drawn up to greet them in Sabina Park, Kingston, during their visit to Jamaica. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge used a similar Land Rover while attending the inaugural Commissioning Parade for service personnel from across the Caribbean who have recently completed the Caribbean Military Academy's Officer Training Programme, in Kingston, Jamaica, as part of their tour of the Caribbean. Issue date:
RM2J1C0MR–RETRANSMITTED AMENDING CAPTION SAYING THAT THIS IS A SIMILAR LAND ROVER AND NOT THE SAME ONE File photo dated 25/11/1953 of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh drive down the lines of 20,000 youngsters drawn up to greet them in Sabina Park, Kingston, during their visit to Jamaica. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge used a similar Land Rover while attending the inaugural Commissioning Parade for service personnel from across the Caribbean who have recently completed the Caribbean Military Academy's Officer Training Programme, in Kingston, Jamaica, as part of their tour of the Caribbean. Issue date:
RM2R5YRP7–File photo dated 16-04-1948 of the Australian test team, under their captain Don Bradman. It may not have been a close contest, but it does go down as a high watermark due to the irrepressible performance of an Australia side captained by the great Donald Bradman. 'The Don' led an unprecedented unbeaten tour, comprising 31 first-class matches as they travelled up and down the country taking on all-comers. They won four of the five Test matches by heavy margins but narrowly missed out on a whitewash as England fought out a draw at Old Trafford. The series cemented their status as one of the gre
RM2JYXMTA–File photo dated 19/12/1977 of Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, accompanied by her dog trainer and gamekeeper, Bill Meldrum and three of her dogs, Sandringham Sherry (Sandringham Sydney's mother) Sandringham Dipper and royal favourite Lugwardine Jade, who belonged to Mr Meldrum's father. The Queen faced the prospect of becoming Elizabeth I of Scotland or even Elizabeth, Queen of Scots, had the Scottish people voted in 2019 in favour of independence. But Elizabeth II will go down in history as the monarch whose reign escaped the break-up of the 307-year-old Union of which she
RMG4N2HW–Queen Elizabeth II walks onto the field to tread down divots kicked up by the ponies during a polo match in which the Duke of Edinburgh was playing, at Windsor Great park.
RMG53D6X–Library file picture dated 30/01/65 of the coffin of Sir Winston Churchill making it's way up the River Thames to Festival Pier on board the Havengore. The vessel that carried the coffin of Sir Winston Churchill down the River Thames on the day of his funeral is to become a floating memorial to the great statesman, it has been revealed August 13th 2000. The Havengore, an 87ft-long former Port of London Authority (PLA) survey vessel, is undergoing a complete restoration. By next Easter, she will be equipped to travel around Britain and continental Europe carrying students studying modern
RMG88F04–50. Looking on are runners-up Sylvia Wendy Packer (left), of Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, and Jacqueline Sylvia Riley, of Edgware, Middlesex.
RMG8JK29–Police clear up missiles thrown at them by demonstrators during a night of violence in the dispute between print unions and Rupert Murdoch's News International at Wapping in London. *UK Provs Only
RMG8B8RG–Farmer's daughter Barbara Hadfield, 18, who has decided to spend less time in the saddle with the Barlow Hunt in order to give herself a better chance in beauty contests. She says hunting was adding inches where they were not wanted. At her home in Bowshaw Farm, Dronfield, near Sheffield, she said: 'This season I'm rationing myself to only three appearances with the Hunt. It is common sense, really, that bouncing up and down in the saddle can play havoc with a girl's figure.' Barbara models for a Manchester agency, and feels that a few beauty titles would help her career.
RMG5BPXJ–750,000 radio telescope under construction for the General Post Office at Goonhilly Down, near the Lizard. With him are P. Goodall (left, the resident engineer, and H.C Husband, designer of the telescope (he also designed the instrument at Jodrell Bank). The Goonhilly Down radio telescope is to be used in transatlantic television experiments.
RMR5ATGB–Dr David Owen weighs up the ballot result at the SDP merger conference in Sheffield.
RMG4PPK8–Queen Elizabeth II joining members of the public on a polo ground at Smith's Lawn, Windsor Great Park, to tread down pieces of turf torn up by the ponies.
RMG6F90R–Gulls swoop down as the plough churns up the soil, bringing worms and insects to the surface. Only the leafless trees of early spring mark the boundaries of this low lying island off the coast of Essex.
RMG4PPKW–Queen Elizabeth II, second right, joining members of the public on a polo ground at Smith's Lawn, Windsor Great Park, to tread down pieces of turf torn up by the ponies.
RMG7XKK6–Former motor racing world champion James Hunt with models Gloria Brittain (left) and Linzi Drew. They were helping to launch the Photographer Club, a new group for amateurs, and the first outing was a boat trip up and down the Thames.
RMG64CEM–Trevor Brooking (white shorts) goes down to beat the Arsenal defence and put West Ham United one-up in the FA Cup Final at Wembley. A diving Pat Jennings, the Arsenal keeper, fails to keep out the ball.
RMG73PDK–Denis Law (left) throws up his arms in jubilation at Manchester United's first goal - scored by Bobby Charlton - in the European Cup semi-final (second leg) against AC Milan at Old Trafford. Milan goalkeeper Cudicini is seen upside down.
RMG6AB1H–Crew of the Australian aircraft carrier Sydney line up on the ship's flight deck to give three cheers for the Queen during the Coronation Naval Review at Spithead. The Queen, aboard the Royal yacht, the dispatch vessel Surprise, passed down the lines of British, Commonwealth and Foreign warships.
RMGCE49Y–The Shadow Transport Secretary John Prescott holds up a letter for the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as part of a protest against the government's policy of dumping nuclear waste. He had swum two miles down the Thames from Chelsea to Westminster Bridge as part of the protest.
RMG4HBBW–Surrounded by rescue workers and sorrowing villagers, blanket-covered bodies of children are lined up on stretchers outside Pantglas Junior School, Aberfan, Glamorganshire. Many of the school's pupils died when the village was struck by thousands of tons of coal dust and earth which avalanched down from a colliery tip.
RMG5132K–Face blackened, one of the people involved the tube crash at Moorgate station, is helped from the station to a waiting ambulance. Forty-three people were killed and over 50 injured when a tube train failed to stop at a platform and ended up hurtling down a blind tunnel and crashing into a brick wall.
RMG4MXT9–The military funeral of Baron Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen,the 'Red Baron', shot down on the 21st of April, 1918. At his burial at the village of Bertangles, near Amiens, riflemen from No.3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps fired three volleys over the grave in tribute to the airman who had chalked up 80 kills.
RMGCTM4A–Fast disappearing is the squalid area of narrow cobbled streets, called locally 'Hanky Park', in Salford, Lancashire, which provided the background for the famous novel, 'Love on the Dole' by Walter Greenwood, who lived there. The tiny two-up, two-down houses have been bulldozed to make way for new blocks of skyscraper flats like those shown here towering above the remnants of the past.
RMG4R77Y–Stars of BBC comedy 'Last of the Summer Wine', Robert Fyfe (l), Peter Sallis (r) and Kathy Staff in London to launch the Royal Mail's new guide to it's postbus network. The service, operated by post-drivers, combine deliveries and collections of mail in country areas with stops on route to pick up and put down passengers
RMG4GDFJ–Members of the RAF Sub-Aqua Club in Malta see part of a wartime Spitfire being raised from the sea bed off Gozo, a small island to the north. It took six days, clearing sand and weed, to bring the plane up. A witness was found who saw the plane go down, 31 years ago, and picked the pilot up
RMG4YHCC–Fitness expert Eileen Fowler with the insignia of the MBE she received from the Queen, at Buckingham Palace. * 10/3/00 Legendary TV and radio fitness guru Fowler has died at the age of 93 in a care home in Essex, it emerged today. Fowler, famous for her schoolmarm-like manner and the catchphrase down with a bounce - with a bounce come up , died on Tuesday 7th March 2000 at Colonia Court in Colchester.
RMG5TXB5–Heart transplant Keith Castle, 52, of Latchmere Road, Battersea, London, enjoying a cuppa at his daughter's farm at Hackleton. He had just returned from a regular check-up at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, where he saw Andrew Barlow, 29, who is recovering from his own heart transplant operation of 12 days ago. Mr Castle has lived longer than any other Briton after receiving a new heart - 108 days - but his playing down this milestone.
RMG748PW–Wolves outside right, Deeley hangs jubilantly on the netting after chasing an 'own goal' over the line while outside the goal Blackburn keeper Leyland (centre) and left half McGrath, the scorer, seem to be holding a sit down enquiry. Disconsolate Blackburn left back Dave Whelen goes in to pick up the ball. He later broke his leg and was taken to hospital. This incident opened the scoring for Wolves and they went on to win 3-0.
RMG470D1–Housewives of Dudley, Worcestershire, take part in a scramble for coal that was dug up by workmen making a trench for a new gas main in Priory Road. The trench is only six-feet deep, but that was far enough down to find the coal and start the rush. An official of the National Coal Board said officially the coal belonged to the board, but so far no one has hindered the amateur miners who have been using sacks, buckets and prams to clear the coal away.
RMG8GNP1–There was great danger that the towering centre-piece of this building under demolition should fall the wrong way, into Shirland Road, Maida Vale, so two daring demolition workers Harry Shailey and Cyril Bere climbed up the jib of the crane and fixed a hawser so it could be brought down as planned. The reason for the sudden danger was that a fire broke out in the old building, the former Transcription Department of the British Broadcasting Corporation, during earlier progress with the demolition task last wee, causing the tower to lean over the wrong way. In this picture, the men are seen
RMG4CDGK–Library file dated 29/6/66 of former England full-back George Cohen during his days at Fulham Football Club. Cohen was still in posession of his 1966 World Cup winner's medal today (Saturday) after it failed to reach its reserve price at Christie's Auction House in Scotland. The gold medal from England's famous game against West Germany at Wembley had been expected to sell for up to 80,000. But bids from the floor of Christie's Glasgow auction rooms reached only 55,000 when the hammer went down. See PA story SALE Soccer. PA picture *b/w only* GEORGE COHEN OF FULHAM F.C.
RMGCGFHM–The Troubles - Bomb - RUC Building - Moira, County Down, Northern Ireland
RMG5N99D–London Bridge is Falling Down
RMG4RWC2–SCOTLAND FANS TEAR DOWN GOALPOSTS
RMG4GPJM–Earl Mountbatten of Burma of shakes hands with English footballer Johnny Haynes as he goes down the line of the English team which includes Stanley Matthews .
RMGA908B–The Minnesota Vikings and the St. Louis Cardinals training at Wembley Stadium the day before the American Bowl Exhibition Match. A crowd of around 30,000 people turned up to watch the two NFL teams in action.
RMGA908A–The Minnesota Vikings and the St. Louis Cardinals training at Wembley Stadium the day before the American Bowl Exhibition Match. A crowd of around 30,000 people turned up to watch the two NFL teams in action.
RMGA9087–Action from the American Bowl Exhibition Match at Wembley stadium between the Minnesota Vikings and the St. Louis Cardinals. A crowd of around 30,000 people turned up to watch the two NFL teams in action
RMG8T9CN–Police, ambulance men and other helpers encircle an injured jockey lying on the course after seven horses had fallen in a pile up near Tattenham Corner during the Derby at Epsom.
RMG8T9CH–Police, ambulance men and other helpers encircle an injured jockey lying on the course after seven horses had fallen in a pile up near Tattenham Corner during the Derby at Epsom.
RMG8T9CK–Helpers tend to injured jockeys lying on the turf, watched by race-goers crowding the rail, after seven horses had fallen in a pile up near Tattenham Corner during the Derby at Epsom.
RMG8T9CJ–Helpers tend to injured jockey, Harry Carr, after crashing Hethersett in the Derby at Epsom. Hethersett was one of seven horses that had fallen in a pile up near Tattenham Corner during the Derby.
RMGA9084–Three members of the Minnesota Vikings in front of Wembley Stadium the day before the American Bowl Exhibition Match between the Minnesota Vikings and the St. Louis Cardinals. A crowd of around 30,000 people turned up to watch the two NFL teams in action
RMG6PKB1–A policeman stands on duty as the work of clearing up the rubble continues outside an Acton house that was badly damaged by the whirlwind. In the road is a car battered by falling brickwork. Daylight revealed to Londoners the full extent of the damage caused during the night as the country was lashed by storms.
RMG8FAX6–Staffordshire County Police girl cadets are given beauty lessons, including instruction on make-up, from professional beautician Eileen Fuggle, of Stafford. She is pictured making-up Sandra Bywater, 18-year-old cadet from Lichfield, Staffordshire, as other members of her class look on.
RMG8EEEK–A 7-inch gauge two cylinder 4-6-2 locomotive and tender 'Duchess of Buccleuch' - one of the 30 steam locomotives that will be put up for sale at Christie's in King Street, London, when they open their bi-centenary season. Seated on the model is Carolyn Neilson, of Chelsea, London.
RMG6TTE2–During the interval of comedy 'Rock-a-Bye Sailor', actors Ian MacNaughton (l) and Ian Curry visit a special nursery to entertain children and the nannie, 20-year-old Annette Miller, at the Phoenix Theatre in Charing Cross Road, London. The youngsters are (from l-r) Katie McKenzie, Simon Bentley and Janie Karen Mills, all two years old. The nursery has been set up to enable mothers to attend the matinees performance of the comedy show.
RMG4T42A–An unidentified technician employed in the Experimental Establishment at Porton, Whiltshire is shown during today's open day, using stirred culture vessels ranging in size up to 400 litres. Full supporting services requiring chemical and microbiological equipment are available. A good deal of automation is in evidence. The plant is a self contained unit which produces culyures of microbes on a much larger scale than is possible in a laboratory although by industrial standards the scale of the operation is very small. The primary products inc. a wide range of species of bacteria, bacterial
RMG45FM2–A close up of the right hand of Queen Victoria, showing the Emerald Snake Ring (second finger down), which was her engagement ring from Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
RMG4N81J–A close-up of a Martin-Baker ejection seat, supplied to the air forces of 68 nations by the firm of Higher Denham, near Uxbridge. Five thousand lives have been saved by this method. After ejection the airman is let down by parachute. Since the first emergency ejection on May 30th 1949, ejections have occurred under all conditions of flight from zero speed and zero altitude to speeds as high as 7000 knots IAS and altitudes as high as 57,000 ft. Successful ejections have been performed under water.
RMHFA1KJ–Richard Adams, 62, author of Watership Down, has today resigned as president of the RSPCA.
RM2AB87XR–Flanked by gendarmes and followed by the crowd, competitors - covered by a thick layer of grease - walk down to the sea off Cap Gris-Nez, France, with Dover - and a £1,000 first prize - as their aim in the Cross-Channel swimming race.
RMGADMHD–Soccer - League Division One - West Ham United v Coventry City - Upton Park
RMG4P0Y9–Health - Common Cold Research Unit - Salisbury
RMG4WE9F–Motoring - 1962 London Motor Show - Earl's Court, London
RMGB1N9Y–Cricket - International test Match - The Oval - London - 1930
RMG8BHKD–Health - Pocket-Size Two-Way Radio - Sister Norma Bentley - Manchester
RMG7K04F–Tourism - New Butlins Group Chairman - Robert Butlin - Oxford Street, London
RMGA9088–American Football - American Bowl Exhibition Match - Minnesota Vikings V St. Louis Cardinals - Wembley Stadium
RMG6WG3P–Cricket - Australian Tour Of England 1918 - Clergy v Australians - Lord's
RMG4K5MF–Royalty - Queen Elizabeth II Commonwealth Tour - Jamaica
RMGA9086–American Football - American Bowl Exhibition Match - Minnesota Vikings V St. Louis Cardinals - Wembley Stadium
RMG4WHRR–Japan Oxygen
RMG72XAA–Soccer - English League Division One - Wolverhampton Wanderers v Tottenham Hotspur - Molineux
RMGCD0JB–Transport - SS Great Britain - Bristol Channel
RMG80K9N–Politics - European Referendum - Keep Britain in Europe Press Conference - Len Murray - London
RMG6P62C–Music - Phil Everly - London
RMG58X3W–Soccer - World Cup Qualifier and Home Nations International Championship - Wales v England - Ninian Park, Cardiff
RMG8PK92–Royal Visit to South Africa - English Channel
RMG7JKY9–Entertainment - Anita Ekberg - Dorchester Hotel, London
RMG7J8HX–Marion King, 20, of Highbury, North London, a survivor of the Moorgate tube train disaster, in The London Hospital, Whitechapel. Marion, who has leg and rib injuries, was in the first carriage of the train.
RMG6WA4A–Theatre - The Knickers - Malcolm Tierney and Rosemary Croft - Lyric - Hammersmith, London
RMG4EMP6–Royalty - Princess Anne and Prince Charles - Windsor Great Park
RMG8EWMB–Viviane Ventura, the actress who recently completed a co-starring role with Cliff Richard in the film 'Finders Keepers', passes the time while waiting for her plane at London Airport.
RMG7F713–News - Acker Bilk - London Airport
RMG7J8J1–Disasters and Accidents - Moorgate Tube Crash - London - 1975
RMG6WG3N–The England XI team to play a one-day charity match against the Dominions at Lord's. The match was played in aid of HM King George's Fund for Sailors.
RMG61DFN–Brighton pavillion storm damage.
RMG8FG5H–Charlie Chaplin - Savoy Hotel, London
RMG7XAX2–Athletics - Training Session - June Foulds - Parliament Hill Fields, London
RMG68NA8–Film - Camden Town Boy - Mel Smith, Rowan Atkinson and Emma Thompson - London
RMG7FTXJ–Royalty - Industry Year, 1986 Seminar - Duke of Edinburgh - London
RMG6A1YA–Science - Chairman of the Science Research Council - Professor Brian Flowers - State House, London
RMGC5H0D–Musical comedy star John Hanson and his co-star Lynn Wynter during rehearsals in London for the musical 'When You're Young'.
RMG4FXB0–London Scenes - River Thames
RMG6K8FB–Crowned with rollers is Miss United Kingdom, Marilyn Ann Ward, 22, at a West End hairdressing salon where the Miss World contestants attended in preparation for the final.
RMG4M6BF–Motoring - M1 Congestion - Northampton
RMG731XK–1964 Grand National
RMG7HRW6–The Lord of Mayor of London, Sir Murray Fox, at the bedside of Audrey Beard, 42, of Riversdale Road, Highbury, North London, when he visited injured survivors of the Moorgate Tube train disaster in The London Hospital, Whitechapel. Mrs Beard was trapped by her legs and one arm in the third carriage of the train.
RMG55W86–Military - HMS Amethyst - Hong Kong
RMG6TB30–(Back row, l-r) Sam Tucker, Harold Day, Arthur Blakiston, Tom Voyce, Geoffrey Conway, Reg Edwards and Barry Cumberlege. (Middle row, l-r) Ernest Gardner, Wavell Wakefield, Cyril Lowe, Bruno Brown, Edward Myers and Ernest Hammett. (Front row, l-r) Cecil Kershaw and Vivian Davies.
RMG4GDFH–Aviation - Spitfire Wreckage - Malta
RMG5F9P5–Education - Eton Wall Game - 1969
RMG86DT3–Rugby Union - Wales Team Photocall - Murrayfield
RMG6KTHM–Theatre - Charity Play Cast Members - Look Back In Anger - London
RMG49KG8–Crime - Detective Sergeant Raymond Purdy Murder - Claremont House Hotel, Queen's Gate Kensington
RMG4MAB2–Joan Collins & Peter Holm
RMG6YMDH–Soccer - Division Two - Wrexham Team Photocall - Racecourse Ground
RMG5DD0N–Maxwell Reed & Joan Collins wedding
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