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ZUM4836071: Apr. 04, 1953 - Celebrating Easter in the Netherlands. traditional bonfire ceremonies. In East-Netherlands the whole populating of the villages make a traditional track into the woods to cut down a huge tree- which is then dragged through the streets and in the local open space - is set on fire - with the aid of a tar barrel the villagers then get together for dancing and general merry me king / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4836452: Apr. 04, 1953 - Last Of The Ancient Tea Clippers - At Greenhithe. The” Cutty Sark” And The” Worcester”: The last of the ancient Tea Clippers - the” Cutty Sark” is moored at Greenhithe alongside the training ship” Worcester” - for which she has been used as an Overflow vessel. An Appeal is being launched by the Cutty Sark Preservation Society for an estimated ~ 250,000 to enable the permanent preservation of the vessel at Greenwich and to establish a series of Cutty Sark Burseries to enable young men to be trained and to qualify as officers of the Merchant Navy. The Cutty Sark was built in 1869 / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4836463: Apr. 04, 1953 - Bismarck's Saloon Carriage - is no longer a show-piece for us with our streamlined rail-locomotives and cars but it is of special interest for the Traffic Museum which is to be opened on April 22nd. The carriage was built in 1872 and was placed at the free disposal of the Iron Chancellor on the then German rail-net. It contains one room with seats and couches, sleep- and working-rooms and one compartment for servants. It was heated with charcoal. The carriage was robbed out at the end of the war and it took much trouble to get ready everything as it was / Bridgeman Images