MPX5153187: Mandy Hopper, 11, from Ash Avenue, Gilesgate, wrote to The Journal's 'Fix It' desk "I would like to be an air hostess on an aeroplane, as I have never been in aeroplane before." An air traffic controllers assistants' dispute meant a few weeks delay before she was able to join Dan Air Airline stewardesses on a BAC 1-11 Newcastle to London flight. Mandy was given her uniform by Dan Air as a memento of her big day. 22/09/1977 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5153940: The Carlisle State Brewery ( Carlisle Brewery ). The government took over and run the brewing, distribution and sale of alcohol in three regions of the UK from 1916 until 1973 under the State Management Scheme The Fox and Hounds, one the oldest Inns owned by the Carlisle and District State Management Scheme. 27/07/1955 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5153942: A BEA Hawker Siddeley Trident airliner, operating as a British European Airways (BEA) scheduled commercial passenger flight from London Heathrow Airport to Brussels, crashed near the town of Staines on Sunday, 18 June 1972, less than three minutes after take-off. All 118 persons on board were killed. The accident became known as the Staines disaster, and was the worst air disaster in Britain until the Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. 18/06/1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images