ZUM4856813: Jul 07, 1953 - Royal Society Of Literature Garden Party At No.11 Dr. Edith Sitwell: The Royal Society of Literature which is 130 years old - gave Garden Party in the grounds of No. 11 Downing Street this Afternoon. The party was attended, be ~ among others Mr. R.A. Butler Chancellor of the Exchequer - who is President of the Society - and Sir Laurence Olivier / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4857022: Jul 07, 1953 - 100 army guns seized in van. In centre of Market town 28 miles from London.: More than 100 guns from an Army store were found in a van, stopped by police at Bishops Stortford, Herts, early yesterday. The miniature arsenal, piled high in the back of the van included 99 Le Enfield, 303 rifles, eight Bren guns, ten Sten guns, a two inch mortar, a Browning machine gun and an ati-tank gun. It was a 3-20 am when a police patrol car headed off the van in Potter Street, in the centre of Bishops Statford 0 28 miles from London. A second police car pulled up close behind the van. It all happened as part of a routine check as the police thought in unusual for a tiny van to be travelling through the town of that hour. Three men will appear in court today / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4857126: Jul 07, 1953 - Field Marshal Kesselring Addresses Reunion of the” Stahlhelm” at Giessen: A reunion of the” Stahlhelm” was held recently at Giessen at which the meeting was addressed by former Field Marshal Kesselring who is chairman of the association - which is a union of front line soldiers.. Photo shows Kesselring seen as he made his speech at Giessen. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4857667: Jul 07, 1953 - Heir to throne slain in suburb of Tunis: A recent portrait of Prince Azzedine Bey cousin of the ruling Monarch who was shot to death in his residence in the suburbs of tunis yesterday. Heir presumptive to the Beylical crownd at Tunista, Azzedine Bey was owe of the few friends in high places France could count on in the troubled North Africa protectorate. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4857718: Jul 07, 1953 - Mountain tragedy: Mr. Claude Chulliat at Parisian Mountain Climbe was killed as he was coming down the” Auguille du Fou” (French Alps) in a snow stormo his friend Mr. George Barbacki, who remained clinging to a cliff for two days, could be rescued as brought down to Chamonix. Mr. Georg Barbacki (middle) amongst his life-savers. / Bridgeman Images