ZUM4948860: Jan. 01, 1955 - The Mercy Missions Continue.. Helicopter Lands on Flight Deck Of H.M.S. Glory. Navy helicopters and R.A.F. aircraft have been carrying out their Mercy Missions over the desolate waste of snow covered Sutherland, Scotland for some days now.. They have been carrying food and supplied to the snowbound villages. The aircraft have been their only form of contact with the outer world.. Keystone Photo Shows: - Another of the missions completed - the helicopter lands on the flight deck of H.M.S. Glory in Lech Erriboll. Sutherland / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4948870: Jan. 01, 1955 -” Little Chequers” - Used By The Foreign Secretary.” Dorneywood” Near Burnham Beeches: The first official occupants of” Little Chequers” - the name given to” Dorneywood”, the 43 room Queen Anne Mansion left by the late Lord Courtauld- Thomson to the nation - is Sir Anthony Eden the Foreign Secretary and Lady Eden. Dorneywood is a country house standing in 200 acres of land near Burnham Beeches, Bucks and was left to the nation as a” Lesser Chequers” for the Prime Minister of a Minister of the Crown. The house of just as Lord Courtauld-Thomson left it - and furnished mainly by 18th century furniture - with several collectors' pieces of Chippendale / Bridgeman Images