ZUM4873048: Tue 03, 1953 - Coronation Fabric for Balcony Frontals This Coronation fabric, called Queensway will be used for balcony frontals in Wesminster Abbey for the Coronation in June. It is of blue silk with the designs in gold. 1,700 yards of it are being made at a mill in Braintree, Essex, and it is seen here being inspected by the Minister of Works, Mr. Eccies (left) / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4873111: Aug. 14, 1953 - Gordon Pirie Leaves for Norway: Gordon Pirie, Britain's cross- country Champion, world record holder at six miles, and the man who shock the athletic world last Sunday when he won the mile race at White City, left London this morning for a holiday in Norway with the South London Harriers - a holiday that takes in four races at 1,500 meters ( twice) 2,000 and 3,000 meters. Picture shows: Gordon pirie seen at kings Cross this morning complete with haversack, before leaving on the Bergen line boat train. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4873142: Tue 03, 1953 - Passion Play At The Albert Hall:” Four Witnesses” the Passion Play produced by members of the Grail, Catholic Women's organisation, which has over 10,000 members in Britain, is being held for the third successive year, at the Royal Albert Hall, today. The cost of 500 men and women were drawn from all different parts of the country. Keystone Photo Shows: _” White angels” - seen holding up their palms - during this morning's rehearsal at the Albert Hall. / Bridgeman Images
ETE4873218: Second World War (1939-1945): Part of the Maginot to Boulay line (Moselle), November 1944, the fortified sector of Boulay is located between the fortified sector of Thionville to the west and the fortified sector of Faulquemont to the east - This sector was taken by the 90th DI US (WWII, Maginot Line, Boulay, Moselle, France, November 1944) Photography / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4878241: PROTEST OF JEAN PAUL SARTRE AGAINST SALES HANDS - Sep. 23, 1954 - At the Hotel Sacher, (Vienna, Austria) a press conference, Sartre started:” I have no power to prevent this performance but I protest against it as it is qualified to aggravate the tensions between East and West...” This play was written in 1942 not against the Communism but to demonstrate the conflict between different resistance groups / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4878393: Sep. 09, 1953 - Egypt Crisis over Kidnapped London Airman. A sharp new crisis blew up suddenly between Britain and Egypt today. In Ismallia, British Military base in the Canal Zone, and in Cairo, the situation is tense. It follows the kidnapping by Egyptians last Friday of a British airmen. The British gave the Egyptian government until 9. a.m. today to return him. And, as at that time the British received troops went into action. British paratroopers of the 16th. Airborne Division clamped down stringent traffic controls in Ismailai. Roadblocks were manned and heavy machine guns were set up. All Egypans attempting to leave ot enter the town were closely screened / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4878399: Sep. 09, 1953 - East-agents at the judge: By trucks the east-agents are brought to the colleague at Coburg. They had been arrested on Wednesday out of the inter zone-train from Erfurt (Sowjet-zone) to Munich At present eight seniors judge in a lower court of justice at Coburg examines the election troublesome persons. Then they are brought to the near prisons. / Bridgeman Images