Seventies Collection (page 21)

Little girl cools off in bath with ice lolly
A little girl cools off in a bath of water on her front doorstep with an ice lolly during the hot summer of 1976. Date: 1976

Horse waiting by public phone box, Sale, Manchester
A horse apparently waiting to use a public phone box in Sale, Greater Manchester. Date: circa 1979

Bus stop outside Manchester Piccadilly Train Station
A bus stop outside Manchester Piccadilly Train Station, with an old poster promoting 21 Express Trains a day to London. Date: circa 1978

First National Firemens Strike, 1977
The first ever National Firemens Strike in 1977 was supported by Firemen from Eccles Fire Station, Manchester. Date: 1977

Man under iconic sweep of Centenary House, Eccles
A man walking under the iconic sweep of Centenary House - now demolished, but then a flagship Co-Op department store in Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1977

Eccles Bus Station, now the site of a giant supermarket. Date: circa 1976

Young man on a fruit stall in outdoor market, Eccles
A young man works on a fruit stall in the Eccles outdoor market. Date: circa 1977

Joe Twigg, hardware store owner, Eccles, Manchester
Joe Twigg, a well-known hardware store owner, sitting outside his shop on Liverpool Road in Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1977

Children in Jane Street, Weaste, Salford
Children running up Jane Street, in Weaste, Salford. In the background is a Union flag mural, painted for the Queens Silver Jubilee in 1977. Date: circa 1977

Drayman lowers crate of beer into pub cellar, Eccles
A drayman lowers a crate of beer into the cellar of The Grapes public house in Peel Green, Eccles, Manchester. Date: circa 1977

Twenty Embassy. Stockton on Tees 1970s 1970s

Football Action. Ayresome Park Middlesbrough. March 1973 1973

Boy scout on Tuvalu, Gilbert Islands, Pacific
Boy scout plaiting palm leaves on Tuvalu, Gilbert Islands, Pacific. Date: 1979

Government rest house, Tuvalu, Gilbert Islands, Pacific. Date: 1977

Butaritari airfield, Gilbert Islands, Pacific
Aircraft and hut on Butaritari airfield, Gilbert Islands, Pacific. Date: 1977

Scout headquarters, Tuvalu, Gilbert Islands, Pacific. Date: 1977

Traditional welcome dance, Tuvalu, Gilbert Islands, Pacific
Girls and women performing a traditional welcome dance, Tuvalu, Gilbert Islands, Pacific. Date: 1977

Scouts in Tuvalu, Gilbert Islands, Pacific
Scouts taking part in an indoor activity, Tuvalu, Gilbert Islands, Pacific Date: 1977

German boy scouts from West Berlin, Germany, on an outdoor activity at Martlet. Date: 1979

British coin, Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee crown
British coin, an Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee commemorative crown. Its face value is 25 pence. Date: 1977

Helmut Schmidts random number generator, used in psychokinetic tests at the Rhine Research Center Institute for Parapsychology, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Date: 1960s-1970s

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Lambeth Pier
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip standing outside Lambeth Pier during their visit to the headquarters of the London Fire Brigade, Lambeth

GLC-LFB Damaged compressed air BA sets
The compressed air set of a firefighter caught in a flashover during a fire, showing the heat and smoke damage caused to the set and the obscuring of the face mask by the heat damage

GLC-LFB Aftermath of fatal fire in care home, NE London
Aftermath of a fatal fire at an elderly peoples care home in Billet Road, Walthamstow, NE London. Showing the seat of the fire, with heat damage and smoke staining to the upper areas of the walls

GLC-LFB Chemical Incident Unit (CIU)
The mid 1970s saw a number of innovative appliance designs come into play as the London Fire Brigade adapted to an ever changing and more Health and Safety conscious working environment

The aftermath of a fire at Sleaford Street, Battersea, SW London

GLC-LFB Fifty pump fire, Tooley Street, Southwark
The biggest blaze of the decade was fought at Wilsons Wharf, near Tooley Street, Southwark, in the summer of 1971. It was the same location that cost the life of Londons Fire Chief

GLC-LFB Park Royal fire station, Middlesex
Park Royal fire station in West London was one of the later fire stations to be built for the former Middlesex Fire Brigade. Opening in 1958 it was transferred to the Greater London Council in 1965

Graduation ceremony, University of Essex
A Graduation Ceremony at the University of Essex Date: 1978

Gipsy man and three boys with their horse
A gipsy man and three boys with their horse. The man is leading the horse across a frosty field. Two boys are riding on the horses back, and a third boy is walking alongside

Gipsy family inside a bender tent, Surrey
A roadside gipsy family inside a bender (a tent like a wigwam, made out of sack and other materials), in the Newdigate area of Surrey

Wendy Craig, English actress, with butterflies
Wendy Craig (b 1934), BAFTA award-winning English actress, seen here posing with butterflies, a reference to the popular sitcom Butterflies in which she starred between 1978

Met Police officer at Piccadilly Circus, London
A Metropolitan Police officer on duty at Piccadilly Circus in Central London, speaking on his walkie talkie radio. There are neon advertisements for Coca Cola, Cinzano, Skol, Volkswagen

Patients playing bar billiards, Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing three patients, two in dressing gown and pyjamas, one in shirt and trousers, playing bar billiards in a rest room

Family running across sand dunes
A family of four -- mother, father and two children -- running happily across the sand dunes on a beach in Cornwall

Public information notice, Decimal Money
Public information advertisement preparing for the introduction of decimal money in the UK on 15 February 1971. 1971

Two boys on a bridge, feeding ducks, Bibury, Gloucestershire
Two boys on a bridge, feeding ducks on the river below, in Bibury, Gloucestershire. Date: circa 1970s

Stooking corn, Exmoor, near Porlock, Somerset
Two men and a boy stooking corn on Exmoor, near Porlock, Somerset. Date: 1971

Family of four holding hands on a beach, West Country. Date: circa 1970s

French fishing boat on rocks, Dollar Cove, Cornwall
French fishing boat wrecked on the rocks at Dollar Cove, near Lands End, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Danger notice on beach, Penhale Sands, Cornwall
Danger notice on the beach at Penhale Sands, Cornwall -- due to wind direction, strictly no inflatables allowed in the sea today. Date: circa 1970s

Cover design, Womancraft magazine, February 1974 - A do-it-yourself magazine for women. 1974

Anti-nuclear power demonstration, Cornwall
Anti-nuclear power protest in Cornwall, with one protester wearing a gas mask and white protective suit. Date: 1970s

Palm Sunday parade with donkey, St Ives, Cornwall
Palm Sunday parade around a local housing estate with Father John Harper of St Johns in the Fields, donkey and brass band, Halsetown, St Ives, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Palm Sunday service with donkey, St Ives, Cornwall
Palm Sunday service at St Johns in the Fields, Halsetown, St Ives, Cornwall, with Father John Harper, donkey and children. Date: circa 1970s

Labrador dog cuddling up to baby guinea pigs
A labrador dog cuddling up to three baby guinea pigs -- their mother had died when they were born, so they were being kept warm in a nice padded bra. (2 of 3) Date: circa 1970s

Three baby guinea pigs held in someones hand -- their mother had died when they were born, so they were being looked after by a woman and her labrador dog. (3 of 3) Date: circa 1970s

Woman with labrador dog and bra full of guinea pigs
Woman with labrador dog and bra full of three baby guinea pigs -- their mother had died when they were born, so the woman and her dog devised this ingenious way of taking care of them

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