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• January 10th - Anthony Eden resigned; Harold Macmillan is the new Prime Minister
• March 25th - Treaty of Rome signed by six countries France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg, setting up the Common Market (EEC) The aim was economic unity with political unity as a possibility.
• July - Harold Macmillan made his speech declaring 'that most of our people have never had it so good' but still there were 2,000 people per week emigrating to Commonwealth countries! Package holidays to Benidorm started
• August 30th - Malaya attained independence 170 years of British rule ended
• October 4th - The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I and II, The world's first artificial space satellites which caused great consternation to the Americans because of the military implications
• October - The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visit Washington USA
• December 4th - 88 people died and over a 100 were seriously injured in the Lewisham train disaster. Two trains collided in fog under a fly over bridge which collapsed onto the coaches of the 4.56 from Cannon Street. This was the third worst in British railway history
• Bill Haley and the Comets were the biggest entertainment hits when they visited the Britain
• Laurence Olivier portrayed Archie Rice in the John Osborne film The Entertainer
• Britain detonated its first H-Bomb on Christmas Island
• A serious fire at Windscale Nuclear Plant (Sellafield), Cumbria - which contaminated local milk supplies
• Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast) becomes independent
• US troops were sent to Little Rock, Arkansas to protect negroes going to school
• Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story opens on stage in new York
• Jean Sibelius dies, aged 92
• Arturo Toscanini dies, aged 90

April 13th

• State visit to France
• Window on the World
• Delta Aircraft
• The Dokan dam Project
• Looking at birds with an expert photographer

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• Derek Ibbotson At White City Breaking The British World Record Mile At 3 Mins. 57.2 Secs On July 19th 1957 - Full Page
• 6 Photos Of The Funeral Of The Aga Khan At Aswan, With Prince Aly Khan, The New Aga Khan [Prince Karim], The Begum Aga Khan, Ismaili Muslim Leaders; Flowered Coffin At Cairo Airport; Nour-El-Sallam, His Villa At Aswan On The Nile; Design For The Permanent Mausoleum
• 2 Photos Of The Covent Garden Strike
• Shakespeare's Henry V Performed At Polesden Lacey, Surrey
  2 Photos Of Victoria Coach Station During The Strike
  5 Photos About The Oman Revolt - Inside Nazwa; Artillery Outside A Nazwa Fort; The Sultan Of Muscat And Oman, Said Bin Taimur; The Sultan's Field Force Near The Main Nazwa Fort; A Bren Gun At The Fort
  Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery At St. Dunstan's College, Catford
  2 Photos Of The Firestreak Guided Weapon In Woomera, Australia
  Wreckage Of Miglia-Paris Express In Avignon, France
  Aerial View Of The Merdeka Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
  Bastille Day Fireworks In Paris
  2 Photos Of The Miss Universe Competition In Long Beach, California
  'Diablo' Atomic Device Successfully Exploding On Yucca Flats, Nevada!!!
  Wrecked Explosives Warehouse In Piraeus, Greece
  2 Photos After The Earthquake In Persia, Including The Shah And His Wife
  5 Photos Of 19 Year Old Prince Juan Carlos Of Spain [Son Of The Pretender; Great-Great-Grandson Of Queen Victoria] At Saragossa Military Academy
  British Warship Loch Killisport Passing Through The Suez Canal In Egypt
  River Main At Frankfurt, Germany Full Of Dead Fish Killed By Heat
  2 Photos Of The Festival Of St. Firmin, Pamplona, Spain
  2 Photos Of The Rescue In The Pacific Of Second Officer Douglas Wardrop Of The British Monarch
  2 Copies Of Portrait Paintings By Michele Gordigiani [In The National Portrait Gallery] Depicting Robert Browning And Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  6 Large Sketches By Dennis Flanders Of Views At Repton School, Derbyshire, Celebrating 400th Anniversary
  5 Photos From The Queen Mother's Tour Of Rhodesia Including Government House; Mashonaland Turf Club; Rhodes National Gallery; The State Baraza At Zomba, Nyasaland
  2 Copies Of Hogarth Engravings
  2 Photos Of The Royal Australian Regiment In Malaya
  International Girl Guides Camp, Blair Atholl, Perthshire
  2 Photos Of The Enthronement Of The Archbishop Of Liverpool
  3 Large Photos Of The New English Electric P.1.A. Fighter Plane
  Cantinflas [Actor] As Passepartout
  David Niven, Warner Levy & Shirley Mcclaine In Around The World In 80 Days
  Peter Finch & Dana Wilson In The Shiralee
  Full Page Copy Of The Sketch The Trinity Appearing To St. Clement By Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
  Muriel Pavlow, Donald Sinden & Derek Farr [2]
  New Home For The Achille Ratti Climbing Club, Great Langdale
  Princess Margaret At The Royal Ballet School, White Lodge, Richmond
  Mr. Whitney [American Ambassador] At The Fishburn Colliery, Durham
  Opening Of The Mycenae Wing Of The National Museum Of Athens
  Opening Of The New Ashford By-Pass, Kent
  Stirling Moss & Tony Brooks After Winning The European Grand Prix At Aintree
  Personalities Of The Week, In The Public Eye;
  R.P. Beaumont [Pilot]
  Herr H. Buhl [Austrian Mountaineer]
  K.B. Gardner [British Museum]
  Lieut Gen Sir John Clubb [Arab Legion] With Viscount Montgomery
  Yuri Stepanov [Russian High Jump]
  J.R.C. Love [Scottish Winner At Bisley]
  Vivien Leigh & F. Fenston [St. James Theatre]
  Sir Frederick Pickworth [Birthday Honours At Buckingham Palace]
  Kenneth Roberts [American Novelist]
  M. Bourguiba [Tunisian Prime Minister]
  Mr. Marples [Postmaster General]
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Greek statuary perhaps by the sculptors of Laocoon