Young Commonwealth Artists' Exhibition in London
"Young Commonwealth Artists' Exhibition in London"
The painting "Waiting Men" by art student Dora Orphanou of Cyprus (extreme left) stimulates comments from two of her friends, Bill Owusu from Ghana and Charlotte Baissac, 22, from Mauritious, as t...
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Queen Addresses Sierra Leone Parliament
"Queen Addresses Sierra Leone Parliament"
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip are pictured inside the parliament building in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Her Majesty for the first time presided over the Parliament of an independent West Af...
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Sir Milton Margai Greets Duke Of Kent
The Duke of Kent who is representing Queen Elizabeth II at Sierra Leone's Inedependence (...) greeted by Sir Milton Margai, Sierra Leone (....) on his arrival at Waterloo airfield, (....) The colony and protectorate became (....) and is now the ne...
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Britain's Newest Cable Ship to Lay United States-Bermuda Cable
Britain's newest cable ship, "Retriever", pictured here at Surrey Commercial Docks, London, England, is being prepared for her first working voyage, when she will lay the shore ends of a new telephone cable between the United States and Bermuda.
T...
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"New Style British Dinghy for 'Ditched' Airman"
Scientific assistant Ann Wakely demonstrates a new type of single seat dinghy at the British Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine, Farnborough, England.
The dinghy, which has its own built-in survival canopy, is designed to afford maximu...
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