Government Holds Gravesend After Close Fight 1947

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Gravesend, Kent.

Labour wins the Gravesend by-election.

CU Head and shoulders of Sir Richard Acland, the Labour candidate.

MS He walks ashore from a ship in the docks.

CU Election posters on walls.

CU Head and shoulders of Frank H Taylor, the conservative...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
41378
Sort Number:
47/096
Time in/Out:
01:36:11:00 / 01:36:50:00
Canister:
47/96
Film ID:
1197.19
Issue Date:
01/12/1947

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