ZUM4885243: Oct. 10, 1953 - French and Belgian International Dancers Arrive... Complete in Costume... Les Cramignons Liegeois of Belgium and Les Dancseurs Chanteurs die Marais Vendeon of France arrived at Victoria Station this morning... They went direct to the Royal Albert Hall - Where they are taking part in the International Dance Festival. Keystone Photo Shows: Three of the young ladies from Belgium - at Victoria Station this morning. They are L-R: Gaby Davin (as 'Market Gardenerer'); Thiry Raymode ('Coal Heaver') and Heresse Marthe ('Market Gardenerer')... They all come from Leige. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4885389: Oct. 10, 1953 - Huge cake in the shape of Windsor castle for Royal Society of St. George Banquet. A cake which is five feet long has been prepared for the banquet at the Savoy Hotel which is being held for the Royal Society of St. George. The cake modelled to represent Windsor Castle, will be carried in by pikemen from the Tower of London - and took four weeks to make. Viscount Montgomery will preside over the 500 diners and the food and wines will come from all parts of the Empire / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4885598: Oct. 10, 1953 - The” Swiftsure” and” Diamond” arrives.: The cruiser Swiftsure and the Daring Class ship Diamond, which were involved in collision during Exercise Mariner - arrived off Sheerness today. Keystone Photo Shows: - View of the hole in the starboard side of H.M.S. Swiftsure, seen at Sheerness today. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4885635: Oct. 10, 1953 - Allied ships run into heavy going: Gale winds and stormy seas made it rough going in Exercise Mariner, a test of the defenses of nine N.A.T.O. nations against a simulated Communist attack. The U.S., Britain, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Belgium and Portugal contributed some 300 ships, 1,000 aircraft and a half a million men to the exercise which ranged from the Arctic to the Mediterranean and was described as the largest combined maneuvers ever had. Pictures show: H.M.S. Vanguard, flagship of admiral Sir George Creasy, Commander-in-Chief Eastern Atlantic, digs her nose into a high wave in the Denmark Strait. Bottom: Heavy seas sweep over the docks of H.M.S. Vanguard as one of her lifeboats is smashed by the gale. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4886541: Oct. 10, 1953 - The” Swiftsure” and the” Diamond” arrives, Stretcher Case Comes Ashore. The cruiser Swiftsure and the Daring Class ship Diamond which were involved in collision during Excercise Mariner, arrived off Sheerness today. Injured members of the crews came ashore. Keystone Photo shows: Leading Electrician Mate, Charles Chase of Northfleet, is carried ashore on a stretcher, at Sheerness today. He is from H.M.S Swiftsure. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4886899: Oct. 10, 1953 - Victor Mature comes back and has his bath: Victor Mature who four days ago stalked out of the Savoy Hotel because he could not find his fifth floor favorite room with a shower came back to the same hotel yesterday took a lift to the fifth floor and had his shower. Meantime he had flown 6,000 miles to New York and back / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4886951: Oct. 10, 1953 - Professor Piccard makes record descent: Scientist Professor Piccard is seen wearing life-jacket, as he emerges from the connecting-tower of the bathysphere Trieste, after making a world record dive of 10,335 feet. The dive was made 50 miles from Rinza Island, off the west coast of Italy. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4886963: Oct. 10, 1953 - Professor Piccard makes record depth descent in Bathyscaph off coast of Italy: Professor Auguste Piccard the 69 year old Swiss Born scientist dived to a world record depth of 10,335 feet (nearly two miles) in his Bathyscaph, the” Trieste”, at a point fifty miles from the Island of Ponza off the West Coast of Italy. The previous record depth was 6,889 feet set up by Commander Houch of the French Navy in the Bay of Toulon. Professor Piccard's dive was made in the” Tyrrrhenian Pit” - the deepest point of the Mediterrabeab Basin / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4887144: Oct. 10, 1953 - Jimmy Edwards to Marry: The radio and stage comedian, Jimmy Edwards, of the” Take It From Here” show, is engaged to 21-year old Miss Anne Michelle Caren-Gibbs, a former school teacher. Mr. Edwards, who is 33, has been selected for the third time to appear in the Royal Variety Performance at the London Coliseum next month / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4861579: Jul 07, 1953 - International horse show at White City, Miss Pat Smythe wins debutante event: Photo shows Miss Pat Smythe on her mount” Prince Hal” takes a jump during the Ladies Debuntante International horse show, White City, this afternoon. She was the winner of the event. / Bridgeman Images