Travelling back through the years to look at some of the most memorable LEGO items

ALAMY; RADIO TIMES ARCHIVE SCIENCE FILLING A VOID ...

From exploding lightbulbs to the Knights Templar – via Ron Howard and the Daleks

Let’s take a nostalgia trip back 30 years to discover how the most-wanted toys of the festive season season worked

JOHN LYDON WITH PHIL MEARS “This pic of myself and John Lydon was taken at the Waterside Arts Centre in Sale, Greater Manchester, as part of his I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right spoken word tour on

Fifty years on from their explosive debut single “New Rose”, THE DAMNED have evolved from punk pioneers to national treasures. But as a new album pays tribute to Brian James, their fallen co-founder, bandmates Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible and Rat Scabies – along with sundry eyewitnesses and ne’erdo-wells – recall the volatile beginnings, creative vision and incorrigible spirit of The Damned’s groundbreaking first act. “It was CID, villains and the Captain in a nurse’s outfit,” hears Peter Watts