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100,000 Sing in the Rain as the Spurs Bring F. A. Cup Home

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  • 1962-5-15

"100,000 Sing in the Rain" This was the fantastic scene, in Tottenham yesterday (6-5-62) as the super Spurs came home.... with the F. A. Cup. More than 100,000 people lined a three-mile route for the team's victory drive. The Spurs, who on Saturda...

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A. H. Hewitt

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  • 1961-6-14

"Britain's Space Exploration Director" Photo shows : Group Captain A. H. Hewitt, R.A.F. who has been appointed to the important post of Deputy Director of Operational Requirements – Space. Aged 44 Group Captain Hewitt will be in control of all mat...

Sports & General Press Agency Ltd.

Billie Whitelaw in "Make Mine Mink"

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  • 1961-5-6

"Talented up-and-coming screen star Billi Whitelaw as she appears in MAKE MINE MINK" "MAKE MINE MINK" is a sparkling comedy which tells the story of a gang of upper class 'paying guests' who, with the hel of their eccentric landlady, steal mink co...

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Britain's Newest Cable Ship to Lay United States-Bermuda Cable

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  • 1961-5-22

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...

Central Office of Information, London

Danny Blanchflower Holding the F. A. Cup

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  • 1962-5-15

"Spurs Win FA Cup 3-1" Tottenham Hotspur won the FA Cup for the second year running by defeating Burnley 3-1 today at Wembley. Photo shows: Danny Blanchflower, the winning captain, holds cup aloft, on shoulder of Bobby Smith (left) and Maurice Nor...

Daily Mirror

Go-Kart Kids

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  • 1962-8-21

When a director of a British precision engineering company was asked by his nine-year-old son to make him a pedal car, he decided to design and build a go-kart which would not only stand up to hard wear but would also incorporate special safety fe...

Central Office of Information, London

Lieutenant-General Sir Nigel Poett

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"Lieutenant-General Sir Nigel Poett, K.C.B., D.S.O." In June 1961, Lieutenant-General Sir Nigel Poett returns to the Far East to succeed General Sir Richard Hall as Commander-in-Chief, Far East Land Forces. General Poett had previously served with...

Central Office of Information, London

London Gave Yuri Gagarin a Great Reception

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  • 1961-7-19

London gave Yuri Gagarin the world's first man to space a great reception today (11-7-1961). There were cheers and applause at London Airport. And more cheers as the twenty-seven-year-old Soviet spaceman drove to the Russian Embassy in London befo...

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