ZUM4865868: Jul. 28, 1953 - Mass Baptim Of Ten Adults And Fifty Babies. After Laying Of Church Foundation Stone In Nottingham. Cut Glass fruit bowls were used as fonts at the mass baptism which followed the laying of the foundation stone of the new Church of St. Francis, on the Clifton Estate, Nottingham, during the wee-end. the stone was laid by the blacksmith of Clifton Village, who is also the Parish Church clerk, and a bricklayer living on the Clifton Estate, Mr.Reuben Simkiss, on of the volunteer workers engaged in building the Church. Ten adults and fifty babies were baptied by the Bishop of Southwell, the RT. F.R. Barry and six other Clergy.. Keystone Photo Shows: - The Bishop of Sothwell baptises the children. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4865952: Jul 29, 1953 - Delegates From Nigeria In London The Only Woman Delegate: m A delegations of Nigerians arrived in London yesterday for the start of discussion with Oliver L ~ ttlweton on the future of the constitution of Nigeria and the equation f self-government in 1956 / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4866045: Jul. 30, 1953 - Girl-Guides Rally At The Chateau De Jambville (France): 2.400 Young Girl Guides From France And Other Countries Are Gathered At The Chateau De Jambville. This Is The First Big Meeting Of The Girl Guides And Has Begen From Monday And Will Last Till August 4th. Lady Baden Powell, Wife Of The Famous Founder Of Scouts Is Seen Greeting The Young Girl Guides. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4864973: Jul. 20, 1953 - On way International Guide gathering. Canada; USA; and Singapore: Many International Girl Guides and Girl Scouts are in London - on route for the annual International gathering of Rangers and Senior Girl Scouts which is to be held at Abelboden. Switzerland during the next three weeks / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4866295: Jul. 31, 1953 - Coronation year show of the Kensington kitten and neuter club: Photo shows to prove that a cat and bird can be taught to live together in perfect harmony, Caesar, a Blue Persian, and Cleopatra, the parrot, went to the show at the Horticultural Hall today. They belong to Mrs. A.E.Vize, of Bolters-lane, Banstead, Surrey. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4865114: Jul 23, 1953 - She becomes a” Merry widow at twenty-one to dance at the Royal Festival hall.: Daphne Dale, who celebrated her 21st. birthday in Saturday - is tonight to pla the role of” Vilia” in the dancer Version of” The Merry Widow”. a year ago she doubled for Gene Tierney in the ballet sequences of the film” Never Let Me Go”. During the Festival Ballet's visit to Monte Carlo in 1951 - Daphne was voted Beauty Queen at the Battle of Flowers / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4865278: Jul. 24, 1953 - 24-7-53 The young cowboys of Dartmoor. Lasso lessons - Ex-South American cowpuncher Ross Salmon is holding a two weeks course for would-be cowboys on his School for Cowboysat Longdown, near Exster, where he hopes to start a cattle range. He plans to rear cattle in real ranching style on 25,000 of Dartmoor's lonely acres in an effort to put to use some of the wastelands of Britain. To do it he is teaching the boys to ride cowboy style and to do everything that a real Western Cowboy has to do which is rather different to the Cowboys of the Sereen. Keystone Photo Shows: Dartmoor goes Wild West. Hill billies echo over the moor to the accompaniment of guitars and mouth organs round the cowboy's camp fire. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4865395: Jul. 24, 1953 - Daphne padel builds a house and beats the price ring too: Daphne padel, stage and radic star, wanted to build a single-story, three-bedroom house - her architect told her that it shouwls ot cost more then, 500 but five tonbridge, Kent, builders submitted tenders within a few peubds of, 000. Yesterday Daphne told TV-viswes out the” price ring” operated among builders to inflsts prices, She was aperaing in the first program about the home which the B.C. will televise stage by stage, the building as a house after the tenders were received the B.B.C. consulted the royal builders a grace on an in flashed price. But today a contract is being signed by a company which operates over a wide area for the building of the house under, 500 / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4866397: Aug. 01, 1953 - 1-8-53 Clive Brook and his actress daughter - Clive Brook who is playing in “” A Woman of No Importance”” by Oscar Wilde, at Golders Green Hippodrome, wears a Norfolk suit of the Edward VII period. He is seen here with his actress daughter Faith Brook, who has recently arrived from America to visit her father after four years absence. / Bridgeman Images