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An election message from Winston Churchill on an election pamphlet for the Clapham Conservative candidate Captain Roy Lowdnes. He was beaten by John Battley of Labour. The election in July removed the wartime coalition National government from power, despite Churchill's popularity as Conservative leader, and on 28th July Clement Attlee formed a Labour government.From a series of albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, assorted ephemera and a diary, kept by Mrs Lucy Awdry of 14 Franconia Road, Clapham, for the duration of World War II and recording wartime life in London. During the war Mrs Awdry volunteered with the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) assisting with fire watch duties and also at the Clapham War Savings Centre. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.

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Collection:	Home Front Project 2005
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Ref:	06848
Identifier:	IV 169 Vol.14
Date:	1945

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