ZUM4934992: Jun. 06, 1954 - Boko the Siamese baby is making fine progress, she made medical history last December; Photo Shows New picture just received in London of Boko the famous Siamese twin at her home in Kano, Nigeria. Boko set up Medical history last December when she was separated from her Siamese twin sister at the Hammersmith Hospital, London. She is now nearly 10 months old and weighed between 19 and 20 lbs / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4931386: May 05, 1954 -” Husty” is Getting Quite a Big Girl None - A Meal For a Zoo Elephant - It is Very Expensive Buminess fedding an Elephant - Especially when she is still growing - Like fourteen year old Husty in this picture. She has grown so Much that the Harness of her howday has burst grown so much that the harness of her howdey has burst and she will have to have a new got before she display is just an ordinary round meal - for any growing elephant.. She Drinks 22 Gallone of Water Every Day - and the food represented is 1 truss of Hey; 12 lbs. Cabbages; 2 large Brown leaves; 5 lbs. Meal Biscuits 10 lbs. Carrots; 2 lbs. Apples; 14 lbs. Potatoes; 12 pkts. Biscuits; Some Sweet Popcorn; 4 Ozs. Salt and one buckay of locust Beans / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4931478: May 05, 1954 - Teaching Him Young: Little Phillip Payne thoroughly enjoys himself when his mother, Mrs. Lorna Payne, who was one of the famous” Seven Sisters” riding school - takes him over a jump with her. Keenly watching young Phillip's reactions, are his brother Barry, aged 9 - on his 9-year old pony” High Jinks”, winner of over 150 prizes in Show Jumping, and his sister, Wendy, 16, herself an accomplished show jumper, riding her piebald jumper” Barbary ' / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4931509: May 05, 1954 - Abbey celebrates Its ~ 1,000,000 Mark..: A ceremony was held this afternoon outside. Westmister Abbey to mark the reading of the one Million Pound Mark for the restoration fund.. Cables from the U.S.A. and Australia were delivered increasing the fund from ~ 980,000.. A'thermometer 'outside the Abbey was altered - and a thousand” thank you” balloons were released. Picture Shows: Dr. Don the Dean - holds cables from the United States and Australia- during the ceremony outside the abbey this afternoon / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4931926: May 05, 1954 - Ships of the mediterranean fleet escort the Royal Yacht into Malta.: The Royal yacht Britannia with H.M. the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh with their two children Prince Charles and Princess Anne aboard was escorted into Malta Harbour by units of the Mediterranean fleet / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4931994: May 05, 1954 - The Alveena Saga Ends With A Sailor's Tribute - Magnificent! Hundreds of Breton fishermen gathered on the stone jetty at the little harbour of Concarnean, France, yesterday, to acknowledge the courage and seamanship of two men and a woman from Britain. They watched 31-year old Cowes boat builder, Mr. Wallace Clark, step ashore with Mr. and Mrs. Norman Hunter from the 35 ft. yacht Alveena, which had tossed helplessly at the whim of Atlantic storms for 60 hours. They heard one of the three any:” We shall sail her back alone on Friday”. Then from M. Louie Peron, certain of the French trawler L'Amazone, which towed the Alveena to safety, the Bretons heard:” After what they have been through this is magnificent. For those 60 hours the Alveena had been drifting helplessly, her rudder broken, her engine out of action, and her radio ruined by salt water. Mr. Peron first sighted the yacht, apparently deserted, 29 miles off the Scillies on Tuesday morning. A storm was raging. Then came the rescue. The L'Amazon, protected from the waves by bulk of the Liberian steamer Olympic Hill, edged close and threw a line aboard. And as the yacht was towed past the Olympic Hill, Mrs. Hunter held to a chart hearing a lip-sticked request for the captain to telephone an” all's well” message to Mr. Clark's brother in Cowes / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4932027: May 05, 1954 - French Poaching Trawler in Newhaven Harbour.: The British Warship H.M.S. Watchful a fisherios protection vessel - boarded the French Fishing tawler B.2. 665 - the” En Avant” - whenshe was found to be fishing inside the three mile limit and also found that the c ~ ew were uing nets with a smaller mesh than the three inch allowed by international agreement. At special Lewes Court- the Captain Rene Bonvoisin was fined £10 - with £10 costs and had his gear confiscated. When the crew were told that they could not buy back their gear they started a” No Speak English” strike - and sat on the dock rail refining to understand orders to remove their gear to a Custom's shed / Bridgeman Images
ETE4932042: Second World War (1939-1945) - World War II (WWII or WW2): Near Marseille (France) August 8, 1945: At Camp Calas, awaiting their redeployment to the Pacific Theatre of Operations, these American soldiers have just learned by radio the declaration of war of the Sovietique Union in Japan / Bridgeman Images