http://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Tardis_just_the_ticket%21Tardis just the ticket! - Revision history2026-04-30T16:04:43ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.33.0http://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php?title=Tardis_just_the_ticket!&diff=6755&oldid=prevJohn Lavalie: Created page with "{{article | publication = The Mail on Sunday | file = 1991-05-12 Mail on Sunday.jpg | px = 450 | height = | width = | date = 1991-05-12 | author = | pages = 5 | language = ..."2014-06-10T22:38:41Z<p>Created page with "{{article | publication = The Mail on Sunday | file = 1991-05-12 Mail on Sunday.jpg | px = 450 | height = | width = | date = 1991-05-12 | author = | pages = 5 | language = ..."</p>
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TIME finally ran out for the Tardis yesterday — it was booked outside a London auction of Dr Who memorabilia.<br />
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Traffic warden Pauline Janes brought ten-year-old fan Thomas Haigh down to earth with a bump by handing him a parking ticket.<br />
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The BBC had ordered the sale — attended by 700 people at Bonhams — because it had run out of space in its costume warehouse.<br />
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The first lot to go under the hammer was a Dalek, sold for £6,400 — £2,000 more than the expected price — to London electronics director Dave Melven, 29.<br />
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He said: 'Owning a Dalek is the ultimate thing to possess. It's light years ahead of its time in design and function.'<br />
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The second buyer was Professor Barry Harmer, 58, with his wife Maria who paid £6,800. The couple from Islington, North London, said they intended to keep the Dalek in their sitting room, 'where we can talk to it'.<br />
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They said that their front living-room window would have to be demolished to get it in the flat.<br />
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The only foreign bidder to get a look in — an American dentist from Ohio — paid more than £6,000 for various costumes, including nearly £2,000 for a Cyberman head.<br />
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The sale items fetched a total of £55,000.<br />
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Caption: GROUNDED: Dr Who time traveller Thomas Haigh<br />
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