Health Collection

Leeds United footballer Jack Charlton smoking a cigarette during a training session August 1970

Ward C3 at Rubery Hill Hospital, Birmingham, 11th August 1969

Miss UK contestants at the sauna baths, Kensington High Street. 13th July 1971

Whiston Hospital Special Care Baby Unit open with l-r Sisters Carol Brennan, Dorothy McGregor and Staff Midwife Barbara Thompson on hand to answer questions. 5th October 1988

Diana Moran, keep fit expert, recruited 12 South London commuters at Waterloo Station on Tuesday, January 11th 1983, to film her first fitness class for BBC Breakfast Time Television Show

A ward in Preston Hospital, North Shields, Tyne and Wear. 19th August 1974

Three year old David Fellows, puffs away happily in his pedal-car, on a man-sized cigar. Mr. Fellows, who has four other children

Swimmers laze in the sun by the outdoor pool at Rubery Hill Hospital, Birmingham, Friday 30th August 1963

Dr. Steve Atherton and Mr P. J. Gill, Chairman of the health authority, with sister B. K
Dr. Steve Atherton and Mr P.J. Gill, Chairman of the health authority, with sister B.K. Thind at the official re-opening of the Whiston Hospital intensive care unit. 11th May 1982

Ground floor of new mess hall at Rubery Hill Hospital, Birmingham, 25th April 1957, which was opened today (by John Thompson)

Old fashioned ward at Rubery Hill Hospital, Birmingham, Friday 30th August 1963, showing the high dingy roof and narrow windows

ITV World of Sport typist, Mary Treen and reserve Chelsea keeper John Phillips in the physiotherapy unit at Stamford Bridge. 2nd November 1972

A mother holding a baby at Carter Bequest hospital. Circa 1973

A nurse holding a baby at Carter Bequest hospital. Circa 1973

Alfieri. Army Training. No. 30 Physical Development Centre. Barracks. 1942. 1st May 1942
Alfieri. Army Training. No.30 Physical Development Centre. Barracks. 1942. 1st May 1942

Muscle man John Grimek flexing his muscles with Marquis the Chimpanzee at the London Palladium

Knebworth Beauty Farm. Model Rosemary Stewart practising on the Bongo Board. October 1959 P012653

Huddersfield Royal Infirmary has been presented with a national award for its work on infertility. Dr Rosemary Williams of the gynaecology department

Southend F. C training for cup tie. 29th January 1921. Captain Arthur Whalley skipping
Southend F.C training for cup tie. 29th January 1921. Captain Arthur Whalley skipping

1969 Miss UK contestants. 18th August 1972

Aneurin Bevan the Nation Health Minister and founder of the NHS is toured around the 400 bed Park Hospital Davy Hulme, Lancashire. Sylvia Beckingham aged 13 was too shy to ask him any questions. 1947

Miss UK runner up and Penthouse pet Helen Caunt, aged 20. 15th July 1971

Singer, Helen Shapiro, who last week underwent an operation on her throat and is now recuperating in the Harley Street Nursing Home in London. She expects to be there for another week

Dr Alexander Fleming, the inventor of Penicillin marries Dr. Amalia Koutsouri-Vourekas, a Greek colleague, at Chelsea Registary Office

Yoga positions. Position is called Two Legs behind Head Pose (Dvi Pada Sirsasana) Picture shows a sequence of 1 to 10 advanced Ashtanga Yoga positions

Paddington Green Childrens Hospital. 21st November 1932

Singer Billy Fury recovering in hospital after he collapsed with heart and kidney trouble. 8th March 1982

Model Andrea Kovic working out at the Covent Garden Fitness Centre. 8th January 1987

Elizabeth Taylor at a gala dinner in aid of the AIDS Crisis Trust in Whitehall. 6th November 1991

Actor Douglas Lambert who has been diagnosed with AIDS leaving St Stephens Hospital, Chelsea, after a check-up. 19th October 1986

Queen Elizabeth II visits a patient at Arrowe Park Hospital, Arrowe Park, close to the village of Upton, Wirral, Merseyside. Picture taken 4th May 1982

Lyn Marshall, yoga expert, who is to appear at the Albert Hall. June 1972 P035453

Woman wearing bra and knickers and see through dress stretching as part of her fitness regime. January 1971 P007924

A man performing exercises with a frisbee. June 1980

Miss England 1959 Miss Pamela Searle receives her polio vaccination in public to encourage more young people to have their jabs. She was given the jab by Dr

Keresley hospital, Coventry. The site is now the Royal Court Hotel. 11th October 1968

Actress Paula Byrne who played Doctor Frances Witney in the long-running television serial " Emergency Ward 10", on Monday (January 1968) opened her own slimming clinic in Swiss Cottage

Campbell Aird, a hotelier from Moffat, Scotland, using his new limb in August 1998 - the worlds first bionic arm. In August 1998 the worlds first bionic arm was fitted to Campbell Aird at

Princess Diana, at the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital. Lahore, Pakistan. 23th May 1997

An outdoors keep not class in progress in Haverhill, Suffolk. 7th May 1983

HRH Queen Elizabeth II visits Addenbrookes Hospital in 1962. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Picture shows her majesty talking to the nurses

Hope Nursing Home Brookland Avenue, Cambridge. (Picture) Nurses at work. 29th May 1963

Diana, Princess of Wales, on a visit to Sitanala Leprosy Hospital in Tangerang, Indonesia. 5th November 1989

Laundry workers at Jaffray Hospital, Erdington, Birmingham. 9th March 1973

Picture shows The SS Vega, The Red Cross Hospital Ship. It is docked in The Channel Islands (exactly where is unknown, though see end of caption for details on it being in St Helier)

Student nurses Lena Palmer and Leslie Young at Rubery Hill Hospital, Birmingham, kept a secret from their fellow classmates, they are mother and daughter, 20th March 1972

Because of the lack of sunshine suffered by the men of the submarine service whilst on patrol under the sea, only coming up at nights, they are given sun ray treatment at their base

Saturday presenter Sarah Green, helped put John Conteh (left) and Richard Evans who ran the 82 Marathon only two weeks after being fitted with a pacemaker

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