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
ZUM4938496: Jun. 12, 1954 - They Started All This Alck And Brown Memorial At London Airport Mr. Lennox-Boyd the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation is to unveil the now completed memorial at London Airport in memory of Sir John Alck and Sir Arthur Whitten Brown - On June 15th. On the anniversary of their first direct flight across the Atlantic on June 15th 1919. / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4931407: May 05, 1954 - 120,000 pack Wembley for Billy Graham's final meeting. A huge crowed of 120,000 went to Wembley Stadium last night to hear Billy Graham, the American evangelist during the final meeting of his three-months Greater London Crusade. Keystone photo shows: General view of the vaat crowd which attended Bily Graham's final Cruaade meeting at Wombley Stadium last night / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4931466: May 05, 1954 - In full dress... the most of the more than 1000 academicians attended the colourful students drinkin ~, bout of 58 association during the third German students' anniversary in the” Lowenbraukeller” in Munich. After a Solamn entrance of the officers of the students clubs the meting of the students culminated in a truly demonstration for Germany / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4931630: May 05, 1954 - John Cobb's racing car used in Demonstration of retractable aircraft brake parachute: Early in 1951, the G.Q. Parachute Company began work on a scheme to dispense with the necessity for jettisoning an aircraft braking parachute at the end of the landing run. A storage system was devised by which the parachute could by automatically repacked ready for the next operation. It was decided that the parachute should be stowed in a telescopic cylinder, the rear and outer part of the cylinder being arranged to slide forwards over the inner and forward part at the same time as the canopy was ejected rearwards by a piston engergised by a large coil spring. To retract the parachute it is only necessary to switch on the electric winch motor. The attachment strop and parachute canopy. Seeing its possibilities as a test vehicle for aircraft brake parachutes, the G.C. Parachute company purchased the late John Cobb's record-breaking Napier Railton racing car of 450 h.p / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4931873: May 05, 1954 - Blind Man's Bowls: Bowls, the ancient English game which Drake played while he waited to attack Spain's Invincible Armada, is now being played by blind people in London. The blind man plays through the eyes of the skip, the headman of the team, who describes the position of the skip, the headman of the team, who describes the positoin of the jack, the white ball to which the bowler tries to get closest by an imaginary clock, the 12 o clock indicates the position of the stationary jack, another blast indicates the spot at which which the biased ball should be aimed, and the blind bowler is all set to go / Bridgeman Images