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
ZUM4930062: May 05, 1954 - Abbey celebrates its £1,000,000 mark: A ceremony was held this afternoon outside Westminster Abbey to mark the reaching of the One Million Pound Mark for the restoration fund. Cables form U.S.A. and Australia were received raising the figure grom £980,000. A thermometer outside the Abbey was altered and a thousand balloons were released in thanks / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4925391: Apr. 04, 1954 - The Camera Gets A Worm; s Eye View... Skating Star In Training A new view of 20 year old Joan Connell of London - former British Junior Skating Champion - together with the camera that is taking it. Joan was standing on a garden 'rink' of plate glass - she can see a worm's eve view of her movements - and the camera does likewise. She is preparing to star in “White Horse Inn on Ice” - at the Empress Hall / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4899945: Dec. 12, 1953 - Giant Bridge seen on the moon. Discovery by astronomer.: Astronomers have spotted a huge bridge on the moon which looks like an engineering job”. Dr. H. Percy Wilkins, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, said on the B.B2 ~'s radio newsreel last night that the bridge is 20 miles long and 5,000 feet high, and snaps a gulf between mountain ranges 6,000 ft. and 10,000 feet high. But there do not appear to be men on the moon after all.” The bridge, is, of course, not man made” - said Dr. Wilkins after the broadcast.” Though the span is 20 miles the arch is probably only two miles across” The explanation?” A mete ~ ~ ite might have crashed through a molten-lava barrier and as the barrier solidified an arch was left” he said / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4900046: Dec. 12, 1953 - Exhibition of Fine Art in London Portrait of Admiral Lord Cunningham.: Many well known personalities were to be seen attending the preview of the” Courier” Exhibition of Fine Art - held at the Royal Society of Painters in water Colours, Condult Street, London, this morning / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4900259: Dec. 12, 1953 - Appointed British charge d'affairs in Persia British embassy to reopen in reharan. Mr. Denis Wright (42) has been appointed charge d'affairs in Persia and is to leave for Teheran in a few days time to reopen the British Embassy which was closed down 14months ago / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4900270: May 06, 1974 - With more than 43% of the votes, the Left's candidate Francois Mitterrand finds himself neck and neck with Valery Giscard D'Estaing in the second rounds of the presidential election. Late in the night, Mitterrand held a press conference at his Paris headquarters to comment on the results from the first round of presidential elections / Bridgeman Images