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has demanded that Major C.R.P. Landon, Assistant Military Attaché in Moscow now on business leave in Britain - be withdrawn from Moscow.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
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
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
ZUM4930023: May 05, 1954 - Salvation Army's New Chief Elected. The High Council of the Salvation Army, announced the name of the man elected as the new general of the movement. He is Commander Wilfred Kitching, aged 61. A big name among the army's brassbands, he was born at Wood Green and now works at the London Headquarters. General Albert Osborn retires on June 30 after eight years at the head of the army. Keystone Photo Shows: - Commissioner Wilfred Kitching, photographed at Sunbury Court, in a happy mood - after his election as the new general of the Salvation Army / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4930503: May 05, 1954 - The launching of the first Chinese ship: The first ship of the people republic China was launching from the Kiangnan-wharf in Shanhai. It is the 1500 BTR ship with the name” Mintshung”. There are a dining room, a barber shop, a library, showers and a medical station on the” Mintshung”. It will drive on the Yangtse - river between Shanghai and Tschungking / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4930628: Sculpture Exhibition at Holland Park. Lord Luke, Chairman of the National Playing Fields Association - opened the Open Air Sculpture Exhibition at Holland Park, London, this morning. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS: - Elizabeth Frink - looks at her own creation of” Seated Man” - at the exhibition this afternoon, Frink, Elisabeth (1930-93) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4995438: Preparatory School for Young Ladies, 1851. Young ladies in aprons in a kitchen studying cookery with small girls in dunces' caps. Young ladies were urged to become good housewives. Handcoloured etching by John Leech from Follies of the Year, from Punchõs Pocket Books, Bradbury, London, 1864. / Bridgeman Images