ZUM4865395: Jul. 24, 1953 - Daphne padel builds a house and beats the price ring too: Daphne padel, stage and radic star, wanted to build a single-story, three-bedroom house - her architect told her that it shouwls ot cost more then, 500 but five tonbridge, Kent, builders submitted tenders within a few peubds of, 000. Yesterday Daphne told TV-viswes out the” price ring” operated among builders to inflsts prices, She was aperaing in the first program about the home which the B.C. will televise stage by stage, the building as a house after the tenders were received the B.B.C. consulted the royal builders a grace on an in flashed price. But today a contract is being signed by a company which operates over a wide area for the building of the house under, 500 / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4863851: Jul 07, 1953 - The models versus the men, unique cricket match on the village green; Nineteen year old Miss Sara Eberts (left) and collegue Miss Gillaian Andizonne (20) - seen as they” paid up” in readlines for a unique cricket match on the village green at Plittenham. Surrey when a team of Models played a team of men and a good time was had by all. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4852205: Jun. 06, 1953 - General Ridgway says good-by to Europe: General Matthew Ridgeway, NATO Commander, who is to take over the duties as US Chief of Staff, Bid farewell to Dr. Konrad Adenauer, West Germany's Chancellor, at Bonn, West Germany Yesterday. Picture Shows: Dr. Konrad Adenauer and (right) General Ridgway. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4852357: Jun 06, 1953 - Two-Ton Dicksie the Inquisitive Elephant. Two-ton Dicksie, a 12-year-old African elephant at the London zoo, is just as inquisitive as other little girls. On day she watched with interest the peculiar anti's of her that, when he shut the gate, he twiddle something on the other side. So one night Dicksie decided to do the same. There Was a click, and there in her trunk was a padlock. Dioksie decided to push the gate. It opened, and she strolled out along the public paths munching a hedgerow ot two. She them decided to pay a visit to her friend the gorilla, when along came someone she Recognised -Dicksie's own keeper, who gently taking her tusk led her back to her enclosure / Bridgeman Images