MPX5078308: 113 Escape as Nosewheel Fails on Holiday Jet: The nightmare that haunts every airline passenger came true for a planeload of holidaymakers returning from Spain on Saturday (19-5-73). The undercarriage failed as the jet, a Dan-Air Comet with 113 passengers and crew, was on its way to Manchester Airport. Happy landing! A rescue helicopter hovers over the crippled airliner, its emergency exit chutes still trailing to the ground. May 1973 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078359: Tired of speed, Mr Foster H. Dixon, Chief Helicopter Test Pilot for Fairey Aviation, rides his penny farthing bike round the country roads where he lives, near Ascot. On Tuesday Mr. Dixon is to carry out special tests of the Helicopter with a propeller, it has a range of 200 miles and a cruising speed of 115 m.p.h. April 1949 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5076133: Playful poodle 'Florin' has a new toy, an old pleated plastic lampshade. As she pokes her nose through the shade - it becomes a fashionable cape - sometimes an out-size collar. 'Florin' is the 5 year old toy poodle pet of housewife Joyce Farley of Sussex. December 1970 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5076143: World War II: Women. All the bombs the Germans may care to send will never crush the spirit of the Londoner, and nothing he can do will call a halt to nature. Here is a picture taken in the City of London, where wild flowers grow in colourful profusion, among the ruins and two typically happy city girls gather an armful to take away. August 1944 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5076197: Education Equality: A new comprehensive school at Leigh Park, Havant, Hampshire, run by an attractive blonde head teacher, Miss Joan Gregory, has earned the name "unisex school". The girls and boys are given exactly the same curriculum - girls learning to shape metal on anvils in metal work classes etc., and boys learning the art of needlecraft and how to cook. Putting the tarts in the oven is 12 year old Michael Hiscock. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5076216: Jackie Stewart, 1969 Formulla 1 World Champion racing driver at the Savoy Hotel received on his accession to the Presidency of the World Champion Drivers Club, the Champion Challenge Trophy. Handing it over was last year's President, Graham Hill who was along in his wheel chair to make the presentation. (left to right) Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart who received the trophy. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5076247: Photographer David Bailey today held a party in a Kings Road chelsea club to launch his book of photographs called" goodbye baby and Amen" many of the subjects in his book attended the party. Left to right - Christube, David Bailey, Penelope Tree, (David's girl friend) and Marianne Faithfull. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5076263: Entertainment actors Rex Harrison with his wife Rachael Roberts (left) and Rita Hayworth leaves the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury-avenue, London after the first night of the new stage comedy by George Hulme - 'The Lionel Touch' in which Rex Harrison plays the leading role of Lionel Fairleigh. his wife and Rita Hayworth were in the audience. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5076271: Entertainment: Television Programmes: Filming the "Man Hunt" series for London Weekend Television, actress Cyd Hayman is one of a trio of French resistance people escaping from occupied France. Cyd plays Anne-Marie Poitiers (code name Nina) and today she underwent a cold and wet day's filming as escape sequences were shot at Thames Weir near Marlow, Bucks. Preparing Cyd for her ducking, director Cyril Coke pours water over her from a watering can. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5076275: Canine stars of the Film and Television. Gloria North from Datchet, Bucks, demonstrating the forcep on the ear of her Afghan Hound Khan, who has appeared as a model and with Eric Robinson on TV. Waiting patiently are Hotara, 2 1/2 year old Japanese Chinn spaniel who appeared in Peter Sellers Film "Magic Christian" Dash, 8 1/2 year old English sheep dog who appears in-the Dulux ads, and William who appears in the Pal dog commercials, William is being held by its young owner 4 1/2 year old William Craig. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images