MPX5128459: One-Man-Band - He's a rare artiste these days, and one of the few in Wales who make music - and a living - touring small towns and villages with his strange contraption. Here he's caught by a "South Wales Echo" photographer entertaining the locals at Llantrisant - 15th September 1947 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128471: Jayne Mansfield performed her first British cabarets at two clubs in South Shields and Newcastle and didn't even receive an encore. Miss Mansfield was paid £3000 for a week's appearance at the two clubs. But if Jayne was disturbed by the reception to her 20-minute spot of sultry songs and conversation with the audience she did not show it. " The audience was great" she said after her opening appearance " I really love the people up here", 31st March 1967 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128546: Pupils from Woodway Park school in Coventry celebrated the school's 10th birthday with a fete which was opened by special guest Sally James of Tiswas fame. The crowd joined her in a demonstration of the dying fly routine which was part of the Saturday morning programme, 17th June 1978 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5128558: Deep in the heart of Northumberland the 'Whisky Bottle MK.1' emerged on an unsuspecting world. Out of a hangar that doubles as a hayshed, onto the tarmacadam test runway - the road which skirts Bolam Lake, this prototype was jokingly hailed as a revolutionary concept in aviation. Its designers and builders, Daniel Whaley and Roland Johnson, don crash helmets for a 'test flight' , 09/08/1973 (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
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