MPX5098773: The wreckage of a fully-laden passenger Viscount aeroplane after it had overshot the runway at Rochford Airport and ended tail up on the railway line which runs alongside the airport. Firemen and emergency services clear the way for passengers to exit the plane. October 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098938: Timothy Knatchbull grandson of Lord Louis Mountbatten. Seen here carrying a bouquet as he arrived at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London to visit his mother, Lady Brabourne. She was taken there for treatment after being flown by helicopter from Ireland following the bomb attack which killed Lord Mountbatten. Timothy twin brother also died in the IRA bomb attack on the Mountbatten boat, September 1979 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5096260: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip say goodbye at Freemantle, Australia to Lieut-Gen. Sir Charles and Lady Gairdner and Mr Menzies, the Prime Minister just before boarding the Gothic for the Voyage to Ceylon (there were no handsahkes because the danger of polio in Australia) during the Royal Tour of the Commonwealth, 01/04/1954 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5098473: Miss World will wear a crown of steel with matching cape. Mecca Promotions had the idea of asking the British Steel Corporation to make a crown, cape and orb in stainless steel for this year's Miss World Contest, taking place at the Royal Albert Hall on December 1st. The designer was Ann Marie Shillito, 25, chosen by BSC, and who won a major prize for young designers two years ago, November 1972 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5099221: Riding easily on its cushion of air the Hover Truck a development by Vickers of the Hovercraft is based on the Land Rover. To provide the necessary cushion of air a second engine is mounted behind the cab. This drives a centrifugal fan on each side of the vehicle. Two production vehicles have been converted for Soil Fertility Ltd. and these will be used to provide a contract service for farmers to enable fertilisation to start earlier in the year than would have been otherwise possible. The Hover truck demonstration at Chettisham, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, March 1963 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5099252: Flats Crash at Plaistow: Part of a 23-storey block of flats, collapsed into the street at Butcher's Road, Plaistow, today about 6am. About 80 people were feared to be trapped and early reports said that at least six people were dead. One eye-witness said that there appeared to be an explosion, then a segment of the block collapsed into the road, May 1968 / Bridgeman Images