MPX5129127: A BOAC Boeing 707 airliner bound for Sydney and Auckland with 131 passengers aboard had to return to Heathrow airport shortly after take off when one of it engines caught fire. The aircraft call sign Whisky Echo crashed with its wing ablaze on runway two. An eye witness said he saw about 50 people jump out of the plane seconds after it crashed. "they were running and jumping" from the aircraft. Our Picture Shows: The burning plane immediately after the crash at Heathrow Airport, April 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5129157: The Beatles in the studio (Studio Two, EMI Studios, London). That morning, during a photo session, Ringo Starr had become seriously ill and had to be hospitalized. Since The Beatles were scheduled to leave on a world tour the very next morning, it was too late to cancel the tour. Brian Epstein and George Martin arranged for a temporary drummer to take Ringo's place for the first part of the tour, and the drummer selected was Jimmy Nicol, someone who they knew to be talented but who was unknown enough not to be mistaken as a permanent replacement for Ringo. On the spur of a last-minute phone call from George Martin, Nicol rushed over to EMI Studios, where he and The Beatles ran through six songs from their tour repertoire in a quick rehearsal ("I Want to Hold Your Hand", "She Loves You", "I Saw Her Standing There", "This Boy", "Can't Buy Me Love", and "Long Tall Sally"), Just 27 hours later, drummer Jimmy Nicol was performing live with The Beatles in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 3, 1964 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128657: 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. A young girl looks sad in one of the prison-like corridors 7 December 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128751: 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. The Trident crash wreckage pictured at Farnborough. The reconstructed flight deck viewed from the second officers seating position. 01/12/1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128760: 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