ZUM4876178: Tue 03, 1953 - CRNs Mental Fountain in a for Square.. The Artist Looks on: Work is progressing at the Morris is Singer Foundry, Dorerest Road, on the ornamental foundation to be cast in bronze-and which is to stand in Sloane Square. It is the work of Mr. Gilbest Ledward R.A. it will be 11 feet high- and it is to be a gift from the Lord Leighton Fund. It was hoped to have the fountain in place before the Coronation-but as a bill will have to be passed in Parliament before it is allowed to be place in the Square-This will not be possible / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4875874: Tue 03, 1953 - American jet-fighter shot down in Bavaria: An American jet-fighter F-84 being on a routine flight in Southern Germany was attacked and shot down by two Czech jet-fighters of Russian origin of the type NIG-15 about 25 kilometers before the Czech border, on Tuesday forenoon about 11 hours Middle-European time. The pilot could save himself by means of his parachuts. Our picture shows American air-police at the burnt-out wreckage of the F-84 which crashed near Falkenstein in the district of Roding. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4876063: Sep. 09, 1953 -” Virgins Crown” Honor Revived At A Funeral: Theme diagonal costume of carrying a virgin's crown was carried out at a funeral at Abbott's Ann, near Andover, Hants, today for the first time in 32 years.It is the only place in England where the ceremony is still observed in England where the ceremony is still observed. Virginia's crown is awarded on the death of an un-married person of unblemished character who as born, baptized and confirmed in the parish, and was a communicant of the church there. the crown, made of hazel wood and parchment, is carried at the head of the coffin by two young Virginia of the parish. It is then placed on the front of th church for three weeks. If by tghe ned of that tome no one has challenged of disproved the dead person's right to the honor the crown is hung in the church until it decays. The funeral at which it was arranged to confer the honorary today was that of 72-year-old Miss Florence Jane Wisewell, of Little Ann / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4876397: Sep. 09, 1953 - General Meets Admiral: General Alfred D. Gruenther, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces Europe, shake hands with Admiral Fechteller, Commander of the East Mediterranean Allied Fleets, at Shape this morning. Big naval manoeuvres will shortly take place in the Eastern Mediterranean. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4876410: Sep. 09, 1953 - Soviet delegated attends Radio Conference; Lord de La Warr, Postmaster General, today opened the seventh plenary assembly of the International Radio Consultative Committee, at Church House, Westminster. A party of Russian radio engineers, woman among the led by Conrad Jaingovatov, attended the assembly / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4876294: Tue 03, 1953 - New Allied Mediterranean command inaugurated: The new Allied Mediterranean Command under Admiral Earl Mountbatten, was officially inaugurated at a short ceremony held on the bastion roof of Naval Headquarters at Lascaris, Malta, which overlooks Grand Harbour and where the officials of the British Naval Headquarters are situated. The flags of Britain, U.S.A., Italy, France, Greece and Turkey, were unfurled by sailors from each nation, while a Royal Marine band played the different national anthems / Bridgeman Images