MPX5078206: Jimmy Tarbuck will be playing "Buttons" in the pantomime Cinderella at the Odeon in Golders Green this Christmas. As Buttons does not have a beard Jimmy got to work in his dressing room and made some quick but painful strokes with his safety razor. Jimmy started growing the beard about five weeks ago will he was on holiday. Jimmy Tarbuck before the shave. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078293: Accidents - Air 1974: Dive to Disaster. An american gunship helicopter crashed and exploded in flames during a press preview of the farnborough air show, Hampshire on Sunday (1.9.74) One moment it was doing a spectacular Air Ballet, the next it plunged in a terrible dive of death. September 1974 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078917: The Nolan Sisters: Six lovely young ladies aged from 9 to 24 years are appearing in The Harry Secombe Christmas Show on Sunday, 29th December. They are the Nolan Sisters and they live at Ilford. L/R Denise (22), Bernadette (14), Anne (24), Linda (15), Maureen (20) and front 9-year-old Coleen. December 1974 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5079495: Actess and top model Vicki Hodge today married Ian Heath ,who is in advertising, at Chelsea Register Office. The bride wore a white mini dress and coat, and the couple drove off after the ceremony to a small lunch reception in a white 1923 Rolls Royce. The couple Vicki and Ian pictured after the ceremony. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5079286: Over 60 teams from all over the country took part in the National Indoor Tug-of-War Championships at the National Recreation Centre at Crystal Palace, London today. Some contestants pictured during one of the event today. It is a sport that gives some very unusual facial expressions to the audience. November 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5079337: Mill chimneys in Brook Yard, Hipperholme, near Halifax, were demolished. Susan Heviour, Josephine Woodhouse, Ruth Collins, and Patricia Fairbank, fifth form students at Brighouse Heathfield Secondary Modern School, hold their ears as the last crack goes to demolish the biggest chimney of them all. October 1969 / Bridgeman Images