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LDG/1/1/27
Title
[Bach]
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- 7 October 1969 (Creation)
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1 cartoon
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Cartoon features Harold Wilson, Tony Benn and Anthony Crosland walking away from a concert stage wearing dungarees and carrying an organ pipe labelled "thunder". Crosland carries a tool box which reads "[soul] organ repairs". In the background, Edward Heath is on the stage wearing a tuxedo and looking downcast [having had his thunder stolen].
Background information: On 6 October Anthony Crosland was appointed Secretary of State for Local Government and Regional Planning. Also on 6 October: Tony Wedgwood Benn was appointed Minister of Technology and Power. The Conservative Party Conference opened on 8 October. (source: The University of Kent, British Cartoon Archive)
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LDG/1/1 (A)
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- Gibbard; Leslie David (1945-2010); cartoonist (Subject)
- Benn; Anthony Neil Wedgwood (1925-2014); politician (Subject)
- Wilson; James Harold (1916-1995); Baron Wilson of Rievaulx; politician (Subject)
- Heath; Sir; Edward Richard George (1916-2005); politician (Subject)
- Crossland; Anthony; politician (Subject)
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