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ZUM4902102: Dec. 12, 1953 - Giant Bridge over the severn.: The biggest bridge in Europe - the third biggest in the world - is to be built across the River Severb as part of the new Government plan to modernise British road services. It will cost between 12,000,000 and 20,000,000. The bride was first suggested 20 years ago. It will connect Bristol and Cardiff and bring all the South-West country into direct touch with the Midlands, saving scores of thousands of miles a day in road transport. It will link the main road from Gloucester to Bristol with Gloucester-South Wales road. Plans for the Severb Bridge the past few years on models at the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington, Middlesex / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4900661: Dec. 12, 1953 - The Sleeping Beauty ~ tight rope walker.: The Sleeping Beauty of the fairy-tale is a fragile Princess. But the Sleeping Beauty to be danced by Leslie Caron in the new English ballet” La Belle au Bois Dorman” is a gay little English wight-rope walker. Miss Caron's rope in the ballet, which is by Roland Pete and opens in London tonight - is a foot-wide plank / Bridgeman Images