ZUM4935941: Jun 06, 1954 - MOTHER OF TWO BIDS FOR ATHLETICS TITLE. Mrs. Iris Pond, Southern Countries and Middlesex champion and International Hurdler, is competing at the Women's A.A.A. meeting at the White City on Saturday. Apart from her ordinary training on the track at Alperton, Iris has the assistance of her two sons, Barry, aged 6 and Anthony, aged 8. at her home at Uxbridge when it was discovered that, when sitting on two bricks, Barry exactly measured up to the regulation hurdle height of 2 feet six inches. The yard broom with Anthony at the other end - completed the obstacle / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4936168: Jun 06, 1954 - Schoolgirl Wins National Sewing Contest.. The Prize Winning Outfit.. A rehearsal was held at the May Fair Hotel for the Sewing Contest Fashion Show. First prize winner of the National Sewing Contest organized by the National Needle Artists Bureau Ltd., was 14-year-old Edinburgh Schoolgirl Dorothy Weir, who wins a holiday and £50 for the best beachwear outfit made by an amateur home dress maker.. Keystone Photo Shows: - Model Madeline Hobbs wears the prize winning beachwear outfit of white pique shorts and halter-neck sun-top - with sun-hat and accessories of earrings and bracelet - She holds the checked brown and white poplin skirt fringed with jade green Strutts candlewick - at the rehearsal / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4936347: Jun 06, 1954 - The Navy Entertains Children H.M.S. Apollo... Escort Is A” irate”: A party of children from the Reedham Orphanage, Purely - were entered by navy personnel aboard H.M.S.Apollo - the fest Mine-layer - nor moored in the Themes near Tower Bridge - this afternoon / Bridgeman Images