MPX5153565: The RAF's Red Arrows aerobatic team burst into the sky above Newcastle Airport with an off the cuff demonstration of their terrifying skills. They raced across the airport, skimming the ground, with a dense cloud trailing behind then, then burst into a 'star shell' flying up unto the air in every direction. All this after a 350 mile flight from their base in Kent, which the team's 10 Folland Gnat jets devoured in a quick, 38-minute trip. The team was in Newcastle to announce the start of the year's season of displays. Eighty-five displays were planned, including their 500th since the squadron was formed in 1965. After refuelling at the airport, the Red Arrows gave their show, then raced off again. They were due to return in the summer for displays at Newcastle, Sunderland and Teesside. 16/04/1970 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5153510: Mrs Sterry and her two children visit Mr Sterry, who works as an assistant crew cook on the "Bloemfontain Castle" motor vessel. Mrs Sterry asked the Daily Mirror to photograph her husband with the ship in the background, as he was due to be transferred when the ship was sold to the Greeks. The Daily Mirror went one better and invited the whole family to visit the ship and toy fair at Kensington High Street. Pictured here are the family taking a last look up at the Vessel before leaving for the evening train from Paddington back home. 12th November 1959 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5153678: A press reception was held at the Odeon Cinema in Birmingham before the Red Wedge Tour took to the stage with their musical show full of political propaganda aimed at getting the Labour Party back into power at Westminster. Paul Weller and Junior Giscombe. 27th January 1986 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5153705: Only the brave will forgo the warmth of their beds to stay up all night in temperatures that fell to 26 degrees F. Nearly 60 did just this last night in their bid to book chalets at the Co-op. private holiday camp at Rhyl, North Wales. By sunrise a long queue was forming outside the booking office in King Street, Coventry. A wash tub brazier filled with logs, pictured here, helped to keep out the cold. 2nd February 1969 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5153708: The Noble Street flats Housing Estate in Scotswood, Newcastle, which was built in the late in 1950s and demolished in the late 1970s after being blighted by social problems, vandalism, a high crime rate and was nicknamed Alcatraz by the local residents. The demolition programme, 29 August 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images