ZUM4927166: Apr. 23, 1954 - Shakespeare Memorial window unveiled ceremony in Southwark Cathedral: Dame Sybil Throndike this afternoon unveiled the new Shakespeare Memorial Window in Southwark Cathedral to celebrate the anniversary of the famous authors' birth. The window which contains about 400 pieces of glass replaces the one which was destroyed by a bomb in 1945 / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4928635: May 05, 1954 - H-talks start in London: D legates from Britain, the united states, France, Canada and Russia, mat in Lancaster house, St. James's today, to try to reach agreement on control of the stoma and hydrogen bomb. Mr Selwyn Lloyd minister of states, made the opening special the conference is a sub-committee of the und Disarmament commission / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4928716: May 05, 1954 - British Official Photograph Soviet Expel Briton As A 'Spain': As a reprisal for expelling Russian Diplomats in Britain on spying charges - the Soviet has demanded that Major C.R.P. Landon, Assistant Military Attaché in Moscow now on business leave in Britain - be withdrawn from Moscow. They're used as the” reason '- that on November 18 last rarer he entered a” forbidden” Zone near Moscow and took photographs. The British Embassy had not been informed that the area was” forbidden” - no maps were issued - and Major Landon had no camera” - Phot shows Major C.R.. Landon / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4929661: May 05, 1954 - Dead woman in Chelsea - Police called in: Police were called to a house in Onslow Square, Chelsea this afternoon following the discovery of the body of a woman who was said to have a silk stocking round her neck. The dead woman is believed to be the mother-in-law of Michael Rennie, the film star, who is at present filming on the Continent. The discovery was made by Mrs. Rennie, who returned from France this afternoon to her flat on the ground floor of a house in Onslow Square / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4925340: Apr. 04, 1954 - Do you still remember the sinking of the Titanic? : 42 years ago, the modernest and biggest steamer of that time, the” Titanic” crashed by drifting ice in the floods of the Atlantic ocean in 1908 April 14th. For the remembrance of this very day the television-section of the” Hessischen Rundfunk” (Broadcast Corporation in Southern Germany) transmitted the story of the ships sinking. Quite remarkable is the fact, that the stars of the play where all persons who where rescued at that day. Herr Fritz Zurn was the former second cook of the Titanic. Today he's a gent of 64 and owner of a restaurant names Titanic in Gemmrigheim near the Neckar / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4926237: Apr. 04, 1954 - The” Come-Back” of Evelyn Laye and Husband Frank Lawton couple make great stage successes.: The great success of Evelyn Laye in her new Hippodrome show” Wedding in Paris” - was followed by the success for her husband Frank Lawon in his new show” Waiting for Gillian” at the St. James Theatre. The both” Hit the headlines” - after about nine years of obscurity in show business / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4928623: May 05, 1954 - Dead woman in Chelseas - Police called in; Police were called in to a house in Onslow Square, Chelsea, this afternoon, following the discovery of the body of a woman who was said to have a silk stocking round her neck. The dead woman is believed to be the mother in law of Micheal Rennie, the film star who is at present filming on the continent / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4928241: May 05, 1954 - The” Komet”: This instrument similar to mailed fist is a new life-saving apparatus for bathing and swimming people being in emergency. the life-buoy is thrown from a rock-apparatus till to a distance of 300 meters. The saved then is drawn to the land by a line fixed at the life-buoy. Already one man had been saved at the coast of the island Baltrum by this first apparatus of the test / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4925874: Apr. 04, 1954 - Canvas Bunks take Place of Hammocks in new British Aircraft Carriers.: To improve living conditions of ship's Companies - canvas bunks are to replace the traditional hammock in the two new aircraft carriers the Centaur and Albion. The bunks are so designed that they can be stowed when not in use and the extra space for which 'nests' of tables are provided - can be used for recreational purposes / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4927342: Apr. 27, 1954 - Long Focus Camera throws Chinese guards into panick.: This press photographer with his unusual long focus camera was held up by Chou En Lai's bodyguard as he was trying to get a few” shots” of” Chou's” gorgeous villa. He was released expaining that the” Gun” he was handling was by no means” Deadly” / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4925987: Apr. 04, 1954 - Salvation Army High Council to Elect New Commander in Chief... The Salvation Army High Council met this morning at Sunbury Court, Sunbury on Thames to elect a new Commander in Chief as successor to General Albert Orsborn who retires at the end of June. Keystone Photo Shows: Senior Major Rennie, International Headquarters takes a film of L-R: Commissioner Duggin of the Swiss S.A.; and Commissioner Thykjaer of Holland and Commissioner James of Australia - in the grounds of Sunbury Court today / Bridgeman Images