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MPX5127172: Elisabeth Sladen with Jon Pertwee standing in the courtyard of BBC Television Centre after it was announced that she will play Sarah Jane Smith, a bright young journalist on a woman's magazine who becomes the Doctor's assistant in the new Doctor Who series. 26th June 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128730: The Coventry Lord Mayor, Alderman Leonard Lamb(second from right) with three of the guests at his banquet to mark the 50th anniversary of the R.A.F.'s foundation. With Mr Lamb are from left: Air Marshal Sir Peter Fletcher, Group Captain Douglas bader and Air Marshal Sir Andrew Humphrey. Group Captain Douglas Bader, the famous wartime pilot said: "The Royal Air Force in 1940 was very much dependent on what came out of Coventry for its well-being and indeed its fighting ability. "The few couldn't have flown at all if the people of Coventry hadn't stuck the bombing and gone on producing the things we needed." 25th October 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128916: 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
MPX5129100: Japanese Prisoners of war are searched by Lance Corporal Smith after they were taken prisoner by British forces during the last stages of the Japanese breakthrough along the Toungoo-Pegu road in their attempt to reach Siam during the Second World War, 10th August 1945 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images