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Oct. 10, 1952 - Bubble bathers halt the traffic in Birmingham: Bubbles burst against the nearby windows of the lord Mayor's perlour, bus and car drives switch on their wind-screen wipers to clear them of flying froth, more than a thousand astonished people block the road and traffic slows down as four young men in swimming trunks take a foam bath in the Memorial Fountain, chamberlain Square, Birmingham. Buckets of commercial detergent had been poured into the fountain by university students as a prelude to their annual charity carnival. photo shows The bubble bathers are called from the fountain and their names are taken by a policeman after the incident in Birmingham yesterday

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13161958
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46149473
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5581px x 4378px (1.8MB)
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(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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Editorial Use Only - No Property or Model Releases. For any non-editorial use, please contact Mary Evans direct
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Keystone Pictures USA

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Astonished Bathers Bubble Bubbles Buckets Burst Clear Detergent Drives Foam Froth Halt Incident Names Nearby Poured Prelude Slows Switch Thousand Trunks Wipers


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