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Oct. 30, 1952 - Bubble Bathers Halt Traffic Police Take Names: Bubbles burst against the nearby windows of the Lord Mayor's parlour, bus and car drivers switch on their wind-screen wipers to clear them of flying froth, more than a thousand astonished people block the road and traffic slow 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 Four of the Birmingham University students seen as they take a bubble bath in the Memorial Fountain, Birimingham, yesterday

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13162056
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46150017
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5603px x 4407px (1.3MB)
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(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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Astonished Bathers Bubble Bubbles Buckets Burst Clear Detergent Drivers Foam Froth Halt Names Nearby Parlour Poured Prelude Slow Switch Thousand Trunks Wipers


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