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
MPX5127244: This town has celebrated November 11th for 200 years. A local brand of explosive, known as Fenny Poppers, have been set off every November 11th since 1730 by the towns people of Fenny Stratford, a lively village in Buckinghamshire. Squire Brown Willis of Whaddon Hall started the custom several centuries ago by providing in his will for a perpetual fund to pay for the annual celebrations. In view of a crowd of Fenny Stratford townspeople, the Vicar of St. Martins Rev. C. A. Wheeler, sets off the Poppers, c. 1950 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127311: Drummer Colin Peterson, who is suing the Bee Gees pop group, may be "cutting off his nose to spite his face," a judge suggested in London on Wednesday (24-9-69). Mr. Petersen, 23, who says he was sacked from the three -man group last month, seeks a temporary High Court order to stop the use of the Bee Gee name without his permission. He is seen here with his wife Joanne. September 1969 (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