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
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
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
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