ZUM4912961: Feb. 02, 1954 - New Liner Has Maiden Voyage This Month The new P and O Liner Arcadia, 28,000 tons, which was built by John Brown- 0/00USYeaaic 0/00Uzyeacs at Clydebank, is due to leave the Port of London on her maiden voyage to Australia on February 22. She will carry 670 first class passengers and 735 tourist-class passengers. Keystone Photo Shows: Passengers occupying ordinary De Luxe cabins, have their own personal refrigerator set in the wall over the desk / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4913106: Feb. 02, 1954 - Chesney joined Her Club. Ronald Chesney, the man the police wanted to question in connection with the death of his wife and mother-in-law, and who was found dead in a wood near Cologne, Germany, told his friends in Chelsea that he asked his wife to divorce him. She refused. Then a fortnight ago he told Mrs. Pat Sherwood and her husband on their boat at Chelsea Reach; “What Have I to Live for? I am all washed up.” Mrs. Sherwood's husband runs the Las Vegas Club in Gerrard Street, London / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4914785: Feb. 05, 1954 - STRUCTION TO SAVE THE GIANT” BRITANIA”.. SCENE FROM THE AIR.. Keystone Aerial View Shows: - View of the giant British Jet Aircraft - the 100 seater Britannia - as workers - R.A.F. personnel etc. struggled to release her from the mudbanks of the River Severn - in an unsuccessful race against the rising tides. Today Tanks are to be used to haul her on to dry ground.. The Britannia which cost? 100,000 to construct flew for the first time on December 23rd. She was piloted by Chief Test Pilot Bill Pegg.. Only one member of the crew of 12 received injuries in the crash landing which Pilot Pegg had to make when one of her four engines caught fire during her test flight / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4915215: Feb. 11, 1954 - Royal Australian Tour - Original Picture Queen sees life Savers at Bondi Beach. The highlight of the Royal visit to Bondi Beach, Australia, was the surf carnival, in Which the Queen and her husband, sitting amid a vast concourse of people in summer cloths, were so interested the they overstayed their time. This pictures shows the parade of Surf Life Savers marching up to the Queen's dais / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4916867: Tue 03, 1954 - Vast flood damage in the New South Wales.. Cattle on the high ground: Photo shows Stranded cows and calves seen on a small plot of high ground near Lismore North Coast, New South Wakes-during the floods which have inundated hundreds of miles of country side-causing many millions of pounds worth damage / Bridgeman Images