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EAST LONDON: Leave STEPNEY GREEN at 6 p.m and march to GARNAULT PLACE NORTH LONDON: Leave HIGHBURY CORNER at 6.30 p.m and march to GARNAULT PLACE WEST LONDON: Leave SHEPHERD’S BUSH to join North-West ...

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Photograph of Churchill, Truman and Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, 1945. (Catalogue ref: CO 1069/892) ...

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Photograph of a working class family group: Mr and Mrs Lowe and son (Mr Lowe is holding the goose) with Mr and Mrs Harvey and others, 1901 (COPY 1/450 f.3) ...