Feature by ALISTAIR McGOWN
Young Doctor Who fans Stuart Money and Peter Capaldi visit Westminster Bridge on a trip to London in 1975.
Photo © Brian Lynch.
In August 1975, two teenagers posed with studied insouciance by Westminster Bridge, in a nod to the famous publicity photo from 1964’s The Dalek Invasion of Earth. They were fan pioneer Stuart Money, from Gateshead near Newcastle, and bushy-haired Glaswegian Peter Capaldi, who, 38 years later, would become the Twelfth Doctor. They wouldn’t be the last Doctor Who fans to make such a pilgrimage, but they were certainly among the first.