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
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
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
MPX5127588: Time for a sing-song: More than 36,000 Newcastle schoolchildren are getting their own Top of the Pops for safety. For their singing songs Ð pop tunes with words they have writen themselves Ð about getting over the Green Cross Code message. Sergeant Noel Knox is pictured with children at Spital Tongues Infants' School in Newcastle 11 October 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127600: It was the end of six weeks' public dieting for the 12 Sunday Sun slimmers last Thursday. A packed audience came to Jopling's store, Sunderland, to see the final weigh-in of our brave contestants, and to watch two fast-moving fashion shows in which all the models were Sunday Sun readers 18 April 1974 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127660: Disc Jockey Jimmy Saville pictured with Liverpool pop group The Beatles at Finsbury Park Astoria in London. The Beatles and Saville appeared together on the first ever Top Of The Pops programme on New Year's Day, 1964. left to right are Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Jimmy Saville, John Lennon and George Harrison, 11th January 1964 (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