ZUM4833775: Apr. 04, 1953 - Nine now dead in tube disaster. Nine people were known today to have died in the Central Line tube disaster at Stratford, the worst in the London's Underground history. It was the second coach of the Eeling Broadway-Epping train which took the brunt of the crash. The train ran into the rear of another train traveling from Greenford to Hainsult / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4833795: Apr. 04, 1953 -” Britain Can Make It” -” Britain Can Bake It”. Exhibits For International Fair In Dusseldorf: Forty leading confectioners in England, Scotland and Wales are sending unique contributions to the first International Pastry and Confectionary Trade Fair in Dusseldorf, Germany from April 25th. to May 3rd. The British contribution is claimed to be the” largest and finest display ever taken to the Continent” - and many of the unique items have a decided Coronation flavour / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4834635: Apr. 04, 1953 - King's Troops Of The F.W.G. At Rehearsal Major Weldon Gives Instruction: The King's Troop of the Royal Horse Artillery was to vb seen rehearsing at Wormwood Scrubs this morning for their public displays this year. A new morning's carried out by six horses with limber and a thirteen ponder gun - in which they charge over a three foot brushwood fence. The leads, middle and wheel horses jump independently to gun and limber being dragged over the fence / Bridgeman Images