ZUM4927408: Apr. 29, 1954 - A Castle Is Demolished: A famous Loch Lomond (Scotland), landmark - Tullichewan Castle - was demolished on Monday. The castle was built 162 years ago. This year, the owner decided that? 500 rates and taxed were too high. On Monday, explosives ended the story Tullichewan Castle. Now, its 600-acre hillside site is to be excavated for deposits of sand / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4927793: May 04, 1954 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands prepares for visit to Britain.: Photo shows a happy study of the Dutch Royal Family - in preparation for the forthcoming visit to Britain of H.M. Queen Juliana - who is to receive the Honorary Freedom of the Carpenters' Company and to attend a parade of the Royal Sussex Regiment. Queen Juliana is seen in front with her youngest daughter Princess Marijke; and Princess Irene and their father Prince Bernhard is seen behind on left Princess Margret and on right Crown Princess Beatrix / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4929744: May 05, 1954 - HUNTED GUNMAN SHOOTS HELF. London's day of terror from a mad gunman ended last night, when NATHAN GOLDBERG, 27, an ex-Guardsman, died in hospital after shooting himself it the bead in a taxi. Police had been issued with guns after Goldberg had shot three men- one fatally - on his raven of 22 / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4929781: May 05, 1954 - New Seven-Foot High Street Guide To London Unveiled: Alderman G.E. Earlebach, Chairman of the City Streets Committee - this morning performed the ceremony of unveiling the first of fifty - seven foot high” Guides to London” - on the pavement opposite St. Paul's Cathedral. The Guide boards are to be placed at points throughout London - and at the turn of a handle cross reference maps unroll behind unbreakable glass. At the side of the maps are lists of 3,000 shops, business houses etc. and a list of 4,500 streets. The guide is the work of Norwegian Lars Ringdal of Oslo / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4930116: May 05, 1954 - 108 refugees from China arrive at Geneva: A sick woman being carried on a stretcher on handing at Geneva Airport yesterday. 108 refugees from China (among whom a great number of white Russians) arrived from China under the auspices of the United Nations high Commissariat for refugees / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4928150: May 05, 1954 - A cask of beer... the terrible enfant of Hollywood Orson Welles, tapped in the Munich” beer inn”” Platzl” well known all about the globe, by himself, after having finished his film work near” Hofbrauhaus”. Cause of his Munich stay is his latest picture” Mr. Arkadin”, in which Marlene Dietrich herself plays a mainpart. The Munich beer tasted Orson Welles very good. As a matter of fact there couldn't be a original Munich meal without” Brezn” and” Radi”. Down from the wall the former Minich folks - clown Weiss Ferdl wtched the seen who fascinated for years the strangers from abroad, on the stage of the” Platz ' / Bridgeman Images