MPX5126206: The six seated, three-engined Westland Wessex monoplane aircraft pictured at Cramlington Aerodrome. The plane had been especially designed for business travel. A group of airmen show a keen interest in the cabin. 07/11/1930 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126207: John Lennon and Yoko Ono greeting fans near their home in Surrey before a trip up to Durness, Scotland in their Austin Maxi with his son Julian and her daughter Kyoko. Unfortunatley the journey ended 40 miles from Durness in a ditch near Tongue. John was driving on a single track road and swerved to avoid a confused German driver coming the other way. They spent five days in a local hospital recovering. 27th June 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126210: Country and Western singer Johnny Cash being interviewed before appearing at Bents Park, South Shields in 1987 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126214: Muhammad Ali seen here with Daily Mirror boxing correspondent Frank McGhee at Ali's training camp at Deer Lake, Pennsylvania. 20th January 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126215: An Irish International Aer Lingus Boeing 707 airliner flew into Newcastle Airport to carry 167 Tynesiders to America for a three week holiday. 21/07/1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126216: Inside the empty interior of the Boeing 707. 11/03/1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126223: A RAF Hawker Siddeley Buccaneer, formerly the Blackburn Buccaneer, low-level strike aircraft. The plane overshot the runway at Sunderland Airport after making a forced landing. The Buccaneer, from RAF Honnington in Suffolk, was on low-flying exercise along the North Sea coast when its canopy was shattered by a bird strike. The pilot and navigator were taken to Sunderland Accident Hospital with facial injuries but were allowed out after treatment. 28/08/1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126226: Heavyweight Championship fight at White Hart Lane, Tottenham. 17th July 1945 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126233: Boxing at Holland Park Rink, Kensington, London, United Kingdom. Gipsy Daniels v.Tom Berry. 25th April 1927 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126240: Traffic is drenched in the flood on the A1 at Gosforth, Newcastle in 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126241: Princess Elizabeth, waving from the launch of the Caronia ship before she was Queen Elizabeth, October 1947 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126243: John Lennon and Paul McCartney onstage, during a Beatles gig at the Odeon Cinema, Cheltenham, 1st November 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126245: In Wellwood Gardens, Morpeth boats used as transport during the floods in 1963 are parked with cars that are back on the roads now the waters have gone, 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126246: Paddy Hopkirk arrives back in the UK after winning the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally in a Mini Cooper S, 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126255: The New Orleans Jazz Club in Melbourne Street, Newcastle in August 1962 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126256: World snooker champion Alex "Hurricane" Higgins pictured lchecking the straightness of his cue as he sits in his manager's office. 4th April 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126257: World snooker champion Alex "Hurricane" Higgins pictured in his manager's office. 4th April 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126261: Schoolgirls from Church High School in Newcastle model the latest fashion 14 July 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126262: A day in the life of Arkle. 21st November 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126264: Comedian and actor Peter Cook smoking a cigarette. 25th March 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126265: A day in the life of Arkle. 21st November 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126267: Schoolgirls from Church High School in Newcastle model the latest fashion 14 July 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126270: Schoolgirls from Church High School in Newcastle model the latest fashion 14 July 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126273: The Queen Racing at Sandown Park. OPS Afterwards presenting Captain Sir Nicholas Nuttall after he had won the Grand Military Cup on 'Stalbridge Park'. 17th March 1961 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126289: Pensioners playing with Hula Hoops in a Twickenham park . August 1976 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126290: Frank Field, Labour Member of Parliament for Birkenhead, talking to students during a lecture at Southwark college in London following the Cabinet leak row of 1976. 9th November 1977 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126291: Cliff Richard celebrates after hearing that his current single "We don't talk anymore" had hit the number 1 spot in the UK charts August 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126294: Firecrews dampen down a fire in the Billy Banks in Penarth on Wednesday. *FIREFIGHTERS tackled a blaze in two storeys of an unoccupied block on an estate once voted Wales ugliest eyesore. Flames were seen ripping through the third and fourth floors of the flats on the Billy Banks, High View Road, Penarth, shortly after 4pm yesterday and fire crews were quickly called to dampen the blaze. The Billy Banks flats were built in the late 1960s but have been empty for more than 10 years. Redevelop-ment has been put back repeatedly over the years. 27th, April, 2011 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126304: Beating the freeze along the beach at Barry Island, Cheltenham hopefuls "Sydney House" and 'Farimole' out the day before the race was cancelled due to the weather. 3rd January 1962 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126311: A day in the life of Arkle. 21st November 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126314: Former model Jean Shrimpton, 36, pictured with husband Michael Cox and baby son Thaddeus, aged 3 months, at home in Cornwall, Tuesday 2nd October 1979 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126317: Iris Miriam Deeley - WAAF - murdered by Gunner Ernest James Harman Kemp of the Royal Artillery near Well Hall Railway Station, Eltham on Valentines Day, 14th February 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126322: A day in the life of Arkle. 21st November 1965 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126332: Funeral of Iris Miriam Deeley - WAAF - murdered by Gunner Ernest James Harman Kemp of the Royal Artillery near Well Hall Railway Station, Eltham on Valentines Day, 14th February 1944. Funeral at Manor Park Cemetary, 18th February 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126339: Iris Miriam Deeley - WAAF - murdered by Gunner Ernest James Harman Kemp of the Royal Artillery near Well Hall Railway Station, Eltham on Valentines Day, 14th February 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

MPX5126345: The International Isle of Man TT 350cc Junior Race, 7th June 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images