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
ETE4873033: Second World War (1939-1945): Region of Sarreburg (Moselle), around 21 November 1944: A Sherman M4 tank in a street devasted by German troops in retreat towards the border of the Reich (WWII, near Sarrebourg, Moselle, Lorraine, France, ca 21st November 1944) Photography / Bridgeman Images
ELD4873130: War of roses: “” The meeting of King Edward IV and Elisabeth Woodville whom he will marry secretly in 1464” (War of roses: King Edward IV calls in at Grafton, the residence of the Duchess of Bedford and her second husband, Richard Wodeville (lord Rivers) during a hunting excursion in the forest of Wychwood - There he meets and falls in love with Lady Elizabeth Grey, the widow of Sir John Grey, a Lancastrian noble - They were later married in secret, 1464) Illustration from “” A Chronicle-of-England”” by James Doyle, 1864 Private collection / Bridgeman Images