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1950's Election

Tewkesbury Historical Society

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A delightful photograph from presumably the 1950s sent in by Bill Treen. You can just see the subtle family advertising but in those days Treen's were in big demand to provide electrical entertainment of various kinds. The photo also brings together to the two mutually antagonistic branches of the Conservative Party. Starring is Harold Macmillan, a believer in One Nation and Consensus who proved in the late 1950s that we had never had it so good but behind him is the then young local M.P., Nicholas Ridley, who became one of the architects of Thatcherism which discarded MacMillan's tradition. Bill tells us that the photo was taken on the front steps of the Sabrina Cinema where the library now stands.

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