Labour Meet At Blackpool 1956

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Blackpool, Lancashire.

GV. Blackpool Tower in the background. AS. Sign "55th Annual Conference of the Labour Party". SV. Group on doorstep of Conference Hall including Dr Edith Summerskill, Hugh Gaitskell, James Griffiths and Frank Cousins from Transport and General Workers Union. SV. Towards,...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
32275
Sort Number:
56/080
Time in/Out:
01:41:21:00 / 01:42:12:00
Canister:
56/80
Film ID:
605.32
Issue Date:
04/10/1956

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0:010:020:030:04

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  • The conference took place 1-5 October 1956.

    jamied 13th Sep 2012
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