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Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Party candidate for Finchley.
The Preston by-pass which is undergoing repairs after suffering frost damage in the recent cold weather. The by-pass, Britain's first motor-road, has been temporarily closed to traffic
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Mr Aristotle Onassis waves from a DC 6B plane of his Olympic Airline before leaving London with Sir Winston and Lady Churchill for Marrakesh, Morocco.
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CP2STO49824 | 1959-01 
Singer Frankie Vaughan is presented to HRH Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, before the Royal film performance of 'The Horse's Mouth' at the Empire Cinema in London's Leicester Square. Actress Kay Walsh can be seen in the foreground on the left.
Canadian Pacific Airlines stewardess Helen Phillips of Vancouver tries out a hula hoop, accompanied by hula girl Jackie Akeo of Honolulu. Helen, who regularly flies CPA's South Pacific route says the hula hoop craze has even invaded the land of the original hula dance.
** Newly engaged Lord Montagu of Beaulieu and Belinda Crossley view the interior of Queen Victoria's railway coach, which is on show at the Furniture Exhibition at Earl's Court, London.
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CP2STO49821 | 1959-02 
British professional couple Harry Smith-Hampshire and Doreen Casey are seen competing at the World Ballroom Dancing Championships 1959 at the Lyceum in London.
Ballet dancer Antoinette Sibley, 20, who stars as the principal female role as Columbine, rides on The Unicorn - Gary Burne and Ronald Hynd - during rehearsal at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for the Royal Ballet's Harlequin in April. In the right foreground is David Blair as the leading male role of Harlequin. The production has its first performance tomorrow night.
Campaigners who believe they are helping to save the world from a modern form of crucifixion, gather on Good Friday outside the gates of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston, Berkshire.
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CP2STO49820 | 1959-03 
Queen Elizabeth II visiting a new home during her visit of Stevenage New Town, Hertfordshire.
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 Brigitte Bardot at a London Hotel during a photocall for her latest movie "Babette Goes to War"
Queen Elizabeth II smiles as she walks to the dressage ring for the British Horse Society's three day trials which opened at Badminton.
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CP2STO49818 | 1959-04 
The Duke of Edinburgh waves to the crowd waiting for him as he leaves the Harrow Club in Bard Road, Notting Hill, London. The club, entirely supported by the Harrow School, was one of those visited by the Duke, who is patron of the London Federation of Boy's Clubs.
Queen Elizabeth II points to a landscape feature that caught her eye when touring the Chelsea Flower Show in the grounds of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea, London.
Maria Teresa de Filippis has a quick smoke in her Maserati
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CP2STO49815 | 1959-05 
American actor Ben Gazzara who will appear in the TV play from ABC called "You'll Never See Me Again," arriving at London Airport.
Racing driver , Les Leston , pictured at London Airport as he set off to drive a Sunbeam Rapier in the Alpine Rally .
Oxford University's David Green (second l) pulls
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CP2STO49814 | 1959-06 
Three spectators watch the beginning of the 245th Doggett's Coat and Badge Race at London Bridge. Doggett's Coat and Badge is the prize and name for the oldest rowing race in the world
Lieutenant-Commander Peter Lamb disembarks the Saunders Roe Hovercraft after bringing it ashore at Dover after piloting the machine across the English Channel from Calais in 2 hours 3 minutes
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip use an old car which was used by the Queen Mother and King George VI during their tour in 1939
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CP2STO49811 | 1959-07 
Sir Leonard Lord, Chairman of the British Motor Corporation, at the Longbridge works in Birmingham as he gets into the driving seat of the BMC's revolutionary new small car, announced today, as the Austin Seven and Morris Mini-Minor
The Duke of Edinburgh and Dr Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana, share a joke centred round the latter's walking stick, while Princess Anne looks on, in the grounds of Balmoral Castle, Scotland.
American President Dwight D. Eisenhower with Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, when he arrived for a visit to Balmoral.
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CP2STO49809 | 1959-08 
Actress Elizabeth Taylor and her husband Eddie Fisher, with her two sons from her former marriage, Michael Wilding Jr, 6, and Christopher Wilding, 4.
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 American actress Jayne Mansfield in costume for a night club scene in the film "Too Hot To Handle" being filmed at MGM's Elstree Studios.   * 24/11/98 who took second place in a list of the world's 100 sexiest women this century. The survey, published today (Tuesday) by the men's magazine Playboy, crowned 50's sex symbol Marilyn Monroe as the "steamiest siren in the world". See PA story SHOWBIZ Beauty.
A coalman delivering coke.
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CP2STO49808 | 1959-09 
British Empire Heavyweight Champion Henry Cooper pulls a pint of Courage Bitter as he helps out behind the bar of 'The George'
Brenda Harcer wears an anti-smog crochet hat.
What more could Tottenham Hotspur fans want? And this is the pose that brought wolf whistles from the near-capacity crowd when Hollywood star Jayne Mansfield sat on the edge of the director's box at halftime. Jayne was at the match to speak on Tottenham's relay service to local hospitals. She was able to tell them that Spurs beat Wolves 5-1.
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CP2STO49805 | 1959-10 
Lord Carrington, 40, the First Lord of the Admiralty, at his desk at the Admiralty, Whitehall, London. *Neg corrupt. Contact scanned
The Queen returns the wave of 12 year old Australian girl Marilyn Deacon as she and the Duke of Edinburgh leave Buckingham Palace. Marilyn and her mother, Vi Deacon are in London for Marilyn to undergo medical tests.
Comedian Norman Wisdom gives tall comic and magician Tommy Cooper a ride into the Savoy Hotel for the 10th Anniversary celebrations for the Variety Club of Great Britain.
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CP2STO49804 | 1959-11 
PREMIUM --

 Actress Jayne Mansfield, pictured with her husband Mickey Hargitay, nine-year-old daughter Jayne Marie and 11-months-old son Miklos at London Airport.
Actress Jayne Mansfield, pictured with her husband Mickey Hargitay, nine-year-old daughter Jayne Marie and 11-months-old son Miklos at London Airport.
Henrietta Tiarks and the Marquess of Tavistock at the world premiere of On the Beach at the Leicester Square Theatre in London.
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CP2STO49801 | 1959-12 
Queen Elizabeth II feeds a carrot to a horse, watched by trainer Paul Nicholls, during a visit to Manor Farm Stables in Ditcheat, Somerset on March 28, 2019.
King Charles III (centre) arrives for a Sunday church service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, Norfolk. Picture date: Sunday January 5, 2025.
Vanessa Hudgens, Austin Butler attends the "2015 Dance Industry Awards" held at Avalon
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Tilly was centre of attention when we visited the Janet Faye Childrens Party. Everyone wanted to meet her. Tilly is a 14 month old chimpanzee from Africa.   1959. Mirrorpix/Courtesy Everett Collection (MPBM_002448)
Nemo is served a pint of beer at his local pub November 1959 1950s. Mirrorpix/Courtesy Everett Collection (MPWA2905679)
Congestion around a wet Earls Court in London where the 1959 Motor Show is taking place. October 1959. Mirrorpix/Courtesy Everett Collection (MPWA3678026)
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CP2STO47681 | 1959 
ESKIMOS
Walrus for Supper - Eskimos of Broughton Island on Davis Strait, near Baffin Island, unload seven walrus killed recently and cut them up for their families. unloading is watched by children. Some of the walrus meat lies on rocks in centre background. Broughton Island is about 1,500 miles north of Ottawa.
Joey Smallwood hears news he returned in Aug.20/59 Newfoundland province election. (CP PHOTO) 1959
Official greeters dressed for the occasion but vacationers at Midland, Ont., stuck to their holiday attire for the Queen's visit July 5, 1959. The Queen waves to welcomers from a platform at Little Lake Park as spectators in shorts and swimsuits press close for a better view. (CP PHOTO)
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CP1STO577936 | 1959 
CIRCUS

BIG CATS DO THEIR STUFF

CHARLY BAUMANNES BENGAL TIGERS SIT UP AND BEG JUST LIKE ORDINARY DOMESTIC CATS AS HE PUTS THEM THROUGH THEIR PACES DURING THE CHILDREN'S PERFORMANCE OF THE BERTRAM MILLS CIRCUS AT OLYMPIA. LONDON, TODAY, DECEMBER 17, 1959. THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN FROM HOSPITALS, HOMES AND ORPHANAGES ATTENDED THE SHOW.  THE CIRCUS OPENS ITS CHRISTMAS SEASON TOMORROW, BALMANN, A FILM ACTOR BEFORE BECOMING AN ANMAL TRAINER, IS MAKING HIS FIRST APPEARANCE IN ENGLAND. HE HAS EIGHT TIGERS IN HIS ACT.

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FILE - In this Nov. 2, 1959 file photo, Charles Van Doren sits as a witness before Congress in Washington during a hearing on rigged television game shows. Van Doren, who admitted his television quiz show performances in the 1950s had been rigged, died on Tuesday, April 9, 2019, in Canaan, Conn. He was 93. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - This Oct. 14, 1959 file photo shows Charles Van Doren at New York's hotel Roosevelt. Van Doren, who admitted his television quiz show performances in the 1950s had been rigged, died on Tuesday, April 9, 2019, in Canaan, Conn. He was 93. (AP Photo, File)
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CP1STO577937 | 1959 
Sir Leonard Lord, Chairman of the British Motor Corporation, at the Longbridge works in Birmingham as he gets into the driving seat of the BMC's revolutionary new small car, announced today, as the Austin Seven and Morris Mini-Minor
The Duke of Edinburgh and Dr Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana, share a joke centred round the latter's walking stick, while Princess Anne looks on, in the grounds of Balmoral Castle, Scotland.
American President Dwight D. Eisenhower with Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, when he arrived for a visit to Balmoral.
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CP2STO49809 | 1959-08 
American actor Ben Gazzara who will appear in the TV play from ABC called "You'll Never See Me Again," arriving at London Airport.
Racing driver , Les Leston , pictured at London Airport as he set off to drive a Sunbeam Rapier in the Alpine Rally .
Oxford University's David Green (second l) pulls
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CP2STO49814 | 1959-06 
Official greeters dressed for the occasion but vacationers at Midland, Ont., stuck to their holiday attire for the Queen's visit July 5, 1959. The Queen waves to welcomers from a platform at Little Lake Park as spectators in shorts and swimsuits press close for a better view. (CP PHOTO)
Wearing a miner's helmet and a plastic raincoat and holding a flashlight, the Queen leaves the Frood nickel mine at Sudbury, Ont., July 26, 1959. The Queen went down to the mine's 1,000-foot level during her visit to Sudbury. With her in this photo is mine manager E.N. Gaetz. (CP PHOTO)
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CP1STO579544 | 1959-07 
Henry Fonda at the roof of a Television House, holding a revolver next to his face September 1959. Mirrorpix/Courtesy Everett Collection (MPWA2948234)
PREMIUM --  WHS#29696: Typical guest room at the Holiday Inn Motel, 4402 East Washington Avenue, in Madison, with two double beds and a television.  Madison, Wisconsin, 1959. Wisconsin Historical Society/Courtesy Everett Collection.
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CP2STO49807 | 1959-09 
Children on the beach - Young boy burried in the sand with just his head out, panics as a crab approaches his his face. Mirrorpix/Courtesy Everett Collection (MPGL3754650)
PREMIUM --  WHS#10993: A crowd watching a formation flight by military aircraft at a Truax Field air show.  Madison, Wisconsin, 1959. Wisconsin Historical Society/Courtesy Everett Collection.
PREMIUM --  WHS#26375: Henry Aaron in a moment off the field.  1959. Wisconsin Historical Society/Courtesy Everett Collection.
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CP2STO49816 | 1959-05 
Marlene Stewart STREIT
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New Golf Garb-- Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat etc., stays these couriers of the women's golf world from their appointed par-shooting duties, judging from this picture of Marlene Stewart Streit at St. Andrews, Scotland, recently. With the gallery bundled in warm, rain-protective clothing, Marlene trotted out something new in golfing attire to win her Commonwealth Golf tourney round, 3 and 1, from England's Elizabeth Price. Britain won the inaugural event, with Canada second, South Africa third, Australia fourth and New Zealand fifth. 6/10/1959
FILE - In this June 20, 1959 file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are pictured in Schefferville, as they listen to an explanation on the workings of an iron ore mine on another stop in their royal tour of Canada. Buckingham Palace officials say Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has died, it was announced on Friday, April 9, 2021. He was 99. Philip spent a month in hospital earlier this year before being released on March 16 to return to Windsor Castle. Philip, also known as the Duke of Edinburgh, married Elizabeth in 1947 and was the longest-serving consort in British history.  (AP Photo/File)
FILE - In this file photo dated  June 18, 1959, Prince Philip waves as he and Queen Elizabeth II stand at top of plane ramp at London Airport, prior to their departure by jet airliner for 45-day tour of Canada. Prince Philip who died Friday April 9, 2021, aged 99, lived through a tumultuous century of war and upheavals, but he helped forge a period of stability for the British monarchy under his wife, Queen Elizabeth II.  Philip helped create the Commonwealth of nations, with the queen at its head, in an attempt to bind Britain and its former colonies together on a more equal footing. (AP Photo, FILE)
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CP1STO579546 | 1959-06 
Joey Smallwood hears news he returned in Aug.20/59 Newfoundland province election. (CP PHOTO) 1959
Charles H. Peters, president of the Canadian Press, addresse a luncheon gathering marking press and advertizing day at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, Aug. 27, 1959. Peters, Montreal Gazette's publisher from 1956 to 1972, died on Sunday Oct. 31, 1999 in his sleep at home in Montreal at the age of 92. (CP PHOTO ARCHIVE/Turofsky)
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CP1STO579543 | 1959-08 
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