MPX5127462: Petticoat Lane: Every year, it seems, still more thousands remember that Petticoat Lane, in East London, lays itself out on the Sunday before Christmas to sell toys and anything that anybody may want to give away. Here's the throng round a toy stall, interested in the sleeping doll which was is guaranteed to sleep. There was more of everything this year, and the cost of giving seemed to have gone down a bit. December 1948 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127466: Horse Sale at Barnet Fair: The Bernet Fair Horse Sales many of the horses are unbroken and start rearing as soon as a halter is put on their neck. Fearless horse dealers drive amongst the wild horses to fetch out a likely one for a prospective customer. Barnet Fair is usually noted for being held in rain and mud. This year the ground was bone hard, and clouds of dust smothered everyone. 6th September 1949 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127473: Hundreds of wild ponies driven from Exmoor are sold at Bampton, Devon, Pony Fair. Before the war they sold 2/6d, today (1948) an average price was £5 per pony. Farmers and dealers gathered in the small town where in a sea of mud and heavy rain, the ponies were auctioned. Owners who drove the ponies from the moor, struggle to get the animals into the auctioning enclosure. Only manpower can be used to move the ponies which have never before felt the hand of man. 29th October 1948 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127495: Buggynauts: Four young lads from Nottingham are pictured pedalling into London on their unusual six wheel, six gear buggy. The Bulwell Buggynauts from Nottingham arrive in London. Steering at the front is 18-year-old David Raynor. Providing the power at the back are (left to right) Gary Simmonds, 17 Peter Stevenson, 17, and Robert Smedley 19 19 October 1971 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127500: William Rackliffe 54, has made a water cycle from an ex- R.A.F. bicycle frame mounted on two Spitfire fuel tanks and geared by the mechanism of a tank turret and he hopes to cycle across the Channel to France on the contraption. Rackliffe holds onto a rope for his first trial on the River Thames. 18th April 1949 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127509: Eleven year old Johnny Oswald is the centre of attention in his smart evening suit as he is surrounded by a group of pretty girls all wearing crinoline style ball gowns during the Juvenile and Junior Old Time Dancing Contest at the Hammersmith Palais. The group are all from the Lindsay Dancing School in Dunfermline, Fifeshire in Scotland. 4th June 1963 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127552: Pop star Robin Gibb, lead singer with the famous Bee Gees pop group was taken ill during the week-end and is now in the Regents Park Nursing home, London. He should have been on his way with the other boys to start a tour in American including the famous Hollywood Bowl. He is suffering from a mystery illness. His fellow Bee Gees visit him; left to right: Vince Melouney, Colin Peterson, and the three brothers Maurice, Robin and Barry Gibb. July 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127568: The five boys of the Bee Gees pop group began their basic training for the Army yesterday. As raw recruits, they will suffer the miseries of square bashing and the forthright remarks of the sergeant-major. The remarks are likely to be more forthright than usual, too. For the Bee Gees will do their soldiering as stars of a Boer War comedy film to be written by Johnny Speight. The Bee Gees line up left to right: Colin Peterson, Vince Melouney, Robin Gibb, Barry Gibb and Maurice Gibb March 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127181: Elizabeth Sladen with Jon Pertwee standing in the courtyard of BBC Television Centre after it was announced that she will play Sarah Jane Smith, a bright young journalist on a woman's magazine who becomes the Doctor's assistant in the new Doctor Who series. 26th June 1973 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images