ZUM4867150: Aug. 08, 1953 - Demonstration of Old time weapons: In connection with the centenary celebrations of the small arms corps and the small arms wing, school of Infantry, Hythe, Kent - a Centenary Tableaur of the weapons used in the British Army for the past 150 years, was held today in the Old School Ground. The demonstrating instructors were period uniforms / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4867387: Aug. 08, 1953 - Wounded Doctor Flies Home: Photo Shows Dr. B. Peck, of Plymouth, whose wife was murdered and himself wounded when bandits made an armed attack in his car near the Franco-Spanish border, stopping off a plane at London Aiport last night in his arrival from Barcelona. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4873011: Aug. 13, 1953 - The Kon TiKi boys comes cruising down the Thames.: Old Man River gets an adventuruos crew. Five Bristol Boy Scouts on their home-made replica of the famous Kon Tiki raft are floating on oil drums down the Thames. They started from Lechlade, Gloucestershire, on Sunday. But it's hard work poling - it took them three days to cover 16 miles. They hope to reach Oxford tomorrow. They are seen here at Shifford Lock, Oxfordshire. The trip, including building the raft and its transport to the river, cost? 3 2s, a head. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4873029: Aug. 13, 1953 - The Kon TiKi boys comes cruising down the Thames.: Old Man River gets an adventuruos crew. Five Bristol Boy Scouts on their home-made replica of the famous Kon Tiki raft are floating on oil drums down the Thames. They started from Lechlade, Gloucestershire, on Sunday. But it's hard work poling - it took them three days to cover 16 miles. They hope to reach Oxford tomorrow. They are seen here at Shifford Lock, Oxfordshire. The trip, including building the raft and its transport to the river, cost? 3 2s, a head. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4868055: Aug. 08, 1953 - Paris 'latest creations for Autumn winter 1953-1954: Balmar Presents this pretty cocktail Dress in rainbow taffeta, pink and blue. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ obligatorily: creation Balmain. By decision of the syndicate of sig dress makers, this photograph should not be published before august 25th 1953. we Decline all responsibilities in case of judicial proceedings. / Bridgeman Images