Blue Peter: goodbye to Television Centre – in pictures

16th October 1958: The first Blue Peter show with presenters Christopher Trace and Leila Williams. Television Centre opened two years later Photograph: BBC

1968: The Blue Peter team (left to right) Peter Purves, Valerie Singleton and John Noakes with Indian elephants Dum Dum, Sarah and Emma Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

8 April 1971: Princess Anne is interviewed by Peter Purves and Valerie Singleton on the show Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS

11 November 1977: The Blue Peter team in the studio Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images

Petra, the show's Alsatian dog, answering the Blue Peter fan mail Photograph: John Pratt/Getty Images

1980: Peter Duncan cleaning Big Ben on Blue Peter Photograph: BBC/BBC

1982: Prince Charles being interviewed by Simon Groom and Sarah Greene Photograph: BBC

1982: Sarah Greene gives Morph a Blue Peter badge while his creator Peter Lord looks on Photograph: BBC

1985: Janet Ellis demonstrates how to make Christmas tree cards Photograph: BBC

1986: Peter Duncan and Roland Rat make a winter warmer soup Photograph: BBC

1988: Caron Keating and Yvette Fielding with George the Tortoise Photograph: BBC

1989: John Leslie, Mark Curry, Caron Keating And Yvette Fielding Photograph: Rex Features

1993: John Leslie, Diane-Louise Jordan and Anthea Turner Photograph: BBC

1998: Blue Peter's 40th anniversary with Peter Duncan, Valerie Singleton, Anthea Turner (holding the model of Tracey Island from Thunderbirds that she built in 1993) and Stuart Miles Photograph: BBC

2000: (clockwise from top left) Matt Baker, Simon Thomas, new Blue Peter presenter Liz Barker and Konnie Huq Photograph: Allen Maev/PA Archive/Press Association Images

2000: Blue Peter presenters past and present dig up time capsules buried in the 1970s and 1980s. Former presenters Valerie Singleton, John Noakes and Peter Purves reveal the contents of the box they buried on 7 June 1971, and Simon Groom and Janet Ellis are present to unveil the second Blue Peter box, buried in 1984 Photograph: BBC

2005: Konnie Huq, Simon Thomas, Ewan McGregor, Liz Barker and Matt Baker in the 4000th Blue Peter episode
Photograph: BBC

2005: David Tennant reveals the winners of the Doctor Who competition with Gethin Jones in the Blue Peter studio Photograph: BBC

2006: Konnie Huq meets the then prime minister, Tony Blair Photograph: BBC

2010: presenters Andy Akinwolere, Helen Skelton and Joel Defries Photograph: BBC