MPX5128727: Roy Hudd poses with other members of the cast who were appearing with him in a production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," at Coventry Theatre. The lady in the photo is Mrs. Joan Hobson, winner of a Coventry Evening Telegraph" competition for the best account of a personal experience based on the play. She was taken back stage to meet the stars and received a warm welcome from (left to right) "Monsewer" Eddie Gray, Roy Hudd, Kenneth Connor and Charlie Naughton, 23rd May 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128729: I'm forever blowing bubbles. But these bubbles don't burst after a few minutes in the air they last a considerable time and do a job of outmost importance to our seaman, in fact to every ship on the high seas. They will shortly be bubbles of light piercing the darkness, which gives warning from the lighthouses around the coastline of Britain. A female glass blower is seen here holding a 16 inch glass bulb which weighs ten and a half pounds, 30th December 1943 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128731: Maurice Chevalier appeared at Coventry Theatre for his farewell concert to Britain. He took a walk around the city including the cathedral ruins before returning to his home in Paris. At the end of the 90 minute stage performance he made his way down the stage steps and shook hands with everyone in the front row, 25th February 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128750: 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
MPX5128762: 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
MPX5128763: 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
MPX5128879: A RAF Vulcan bomber crashed at Wingate, County Durham, after a dramatic life-or-death dash across Northumberland as its crew members baled out one by one, The pilotless aircraft crashed into a field behind the local Co-op shop, several buildings were hit by pieces of metal but no one was reported hurt. A wing section of the plane. 08/01/1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128896: A two seater RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier 'jump jet' crashed in a Northumberland field. The pilot ejected at about 500 feet and landed safely. The plane crashed and burst into flames on Heugh Moor, two miles from Stamfordham, and about three miles from RAF Ouston. The Harrier costing almost ¿1,500,000 was one of three carrying out exercises around Ouston when its engine suddenly cut out. The pilot Flt. Lt. Neil Jeremy Wharton, 23, of RAF Wittering, near Peterborough, had time only to radio a report that he was bailing out. The two other Harriers in the air at the time continued to circle for a time. The Harrier was one of four from No.1 Squadron, RAF Wittering, the first operational squadron in the world to be equipped with vertical take-off aircraft. They were at Ouston for a week of 'tactical and target exercises' over Otterburn ranges. 06/10/1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128898: RAF Mountain Rescue and Police search for the wreckage of a crashed light aircraft. The wreckage of a war lies beneath the soft earth of the Cheviot slopes. Consciously ignored by the censored Press of World War Two dozens of planes plunged to their destruction and sank into bogs. More than 25 - both Allied and German - are beneath the marshy soil and their names bear out the aggression of war: Spitfire, Flying Fortress, Swordfish... But when the war ended, the accidents stopped. In the 30 years since the war there had only been two air crashes over the misty hills, this Tuesday's nosedive into Hedgehope Hill was one of them. But rumours persist about the strange weather conditions and freak disturbances between St Abb's Head, where the men went off course and the Cheviots. Does the North have a Bermuda Triangle of its own ? As Department of Trade Inspectors stood by in Wooler to begin examining the Piper Cherokee wreckage, experts answered unequivocally: No ! The aircraft, that was flying from Edinburgh to Sunderland and crashed on the 2,348 ft. Hedgehope Hill is pictured, 14/02/1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128899: The Hawker Siddeley HS 748 operated by Dan Air Service Limited which crashed on an oil industry charter flight from Sumburgh Airport, Shetland Islands, to Aberdeen Airport. The crash, which occurred on 31 July, 1979, 50m offshore following the aircraft's failure to take off, resulted in the aircraft's destruction and 17 deaths of the 47 on board (15 of 44 passengers and both pilots) Three North-East passengers survived the crash, among them was Mr Alan Rae, of South Shields, boss of a Tyneside firm catering for oil rig workers. The aircraft is seen here being dragged from the sea. 03/08/1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128906: The pilot of a US Phantom fighter jet died and the navigator was missing when the aircraft crashed on the Whitby Moors. The plane narrowly missed a house and school in the village of Leazholm. The aircraft was seen belching smoke as it came down. It was understood the aircraft smashed through several stone walls, ploughed across a road and plunged into the moorland before bursting into flames. A helicopter pilot examines the path left by the crashed jet, 27/04/1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128930: The pilot of a US Phantom fighter jet died and the navigator was missing when the aircraft crashed on the Whitby Moors. The plane narrowly missed a house and school in the village of Leazholm. The aircraft was seen belching smoke as it came down. It was understood the aircraft smashed through several stone walls, ploughed across a road and plunged into the moorland before bursting into flames, 27/04/1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images