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MPX5064894: Olympic Games 1948 Finish of the 80 metres hurdles at Wembley Stadium - won by Fanny Blankers Koen from Holland with Maureen Gardner of Great Britain 2nd and Shirley Strickland of Australia 3rd - Fanny Blankers Koen a dutch housewife won four Golds at the London Olympics (100m 200m 80m hurdles and 4x100 relay) Sport Womens Athletics Hurdles Action / Bridgeman Images
MPX5069306: It's such fun of be the flower of Britain. They're a bit young to bother their happy little heads about citizenship; nevertheless youngsters like these are the flower of Britian's future - and, like other flowers, there's nothing they enjoy more than being "Watered". The old war-damaged bath was taken to the Woodchurch Day Nursery, Hampstead, London, by Mr. Desmond Scriven, whose son attends the nursery. The children love it, and queue up to climb in when nurse Phyllis gets busy with the hose. July 1949 P012128 / Bridgeman Images