Lennon photo sells for almost £9,000

The photo was taken soon after Lennon's 1980 murder

A photograph of John Lennon's bloodstained glasses has sold for almost £9,000 at a London auction.

The photograph, taken by Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and one of only six prints in existence, sold for £8,813.

And another piece of Beatles memorabilia, a four-minute home video taken in 1967, sold for £5,288.

The lots were part of a varied collection of show business memorabilia being sold at Bonham's auction house.

Lord Charles was a familiar face on TV in the 1960s and 1970s

Robbie William's bed sold for £8,225 - but some lots failed to sell at all.

The original Lord Charles ventriloquist's dummy, recently re-discovered by its manipulator and owner Ray Alan, was expected to fetch £6,000, but did not sell.

Some movie memorabilia - a Praetorian Guard costume from Gladiator and some theatre wallpaper from Moulin Rouge - also failed to sell.

Original artwork

But Charlie Chaplin's signature fetched £258, and a joint signature by Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh sold for £493.

And the original artwork for the childcatcher's cloak in the hit film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang raised £564.

Paul McCartney was caught in the cine clip

The picture of the yellow and orange cloak, signed by the child catcher himself, Robert Helpmann, was valued at just £200.

The rare piece of Beatles cine film was taken by chance in Newquay, where David Arrowsmith spotted the group filming Magical Mystery Tour.

He said: "I was on holiday with my family and all of a sudden they went past us in a bus.

"We followed them and then they pulled up at the side of the road."

The film had been left in Mr Arrowsmith's shed for the past 35 years.