Economic conditions
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Found in 1266 Collections and/or Records:
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Ca., 10 Oct 1939 - 02 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/65
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: D J Capper (4); Keith Catmur (12).Subjects include: animal feed; local rates; fuel rationing;.
Dates:
10 Oct 1939 - 02 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Cr-Cu., 07 Oct 1939 - 12 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/68A-B
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Correspondents include: G J Creed (11); Sir Richard Wells; Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (5); A W Cuthbert (11); S D Clements, Private Secretary of War Damage Commission.Subjects include: repair of bomb damage and rehousing; Rent Restrictions Act [1939]; evacuation; release from Armed Forces.
Dates:
07 Oct 1939 - 12 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence D-Ea., 11 Dec 1939 - 26 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/69A-B
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Correspondents include: M Davies (4); L R Prescott [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Health] (7); Brendan Bracken; Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (4); representatives of the Eastern Federation of Building Trades Employers (6).Subjects include: Employment of Women Orders; national insurance; women's tax allowances; the coal mining ballot; mortgage rates under the War Damage Bill; builders' rescue...
Dates:
11 Dec 1939 - 26 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence D-G., Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/17A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (3); Donald Fergusson [Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] on WSC writing the forward of a book on Income Tax by one of his constituents; Sir Harry Goschen [Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association] (4) on subjects including constituency opinion on WSC's stance, particularly over India (2).Other subjects include: a statement by WSC on the behaviour of "Socialists"...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Dec 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Ga-Gl., 07 Jan 1941 - 17 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/74A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (7).Subjects include: purchase tax; re-housing bombing victims; civil defence grants; rocket attacks; employment of children; supply of artificial limbs; workmen's summer holidays; ARP shelters.
Dates:
07 Jan 1941 - 17 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence He-Hi., 08 Sep 1940 - 27 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/77
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Correspondents include: F A Hinton (7).Subjects include: evacuation; War Damage Contributions; the King's Badge.
Dates:
08 Sep 1940 - 27 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence I., 12 May 1941 - 20 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/79A-B
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Correspondents include: E D Ide (15); M Ide (5); J A Irving (5); S W G Ives (23).Subjects include: return of evacuees; National Insurance; the Volunteer Car Pool.Also includes: a pamphlet on National Insurance from the National Conference of Industrial Assurance Approved Societies.
Dates:
12 May 1941 - 20 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence I-P., Jan 1934 - Dec 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/13A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (5); Neville Chamberlain [Chancellor of the Exchequer] on duty due on motor tricycles; Charles McCurdy introducing WSC to a speaker; John Maitland inviting WSC to the Loughton [Essex] Cricket Club Annual Dinner; Roy Harrod on monetary reform (2).Other subjects include: regulating journalism; providing a post office for Wanstead [Essex]; medical provision; birth control; immigration and...
Dates:
Jan 1934 - Dec 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence J., 15 Mar 1939 - 16 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/80A-B
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Correspondents include: Ethel Haslam (4); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of the Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (18); Philip Allen [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State] (5); E J Jones (8); Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (5th Baronet); E A Baker (secretary at the Ministry of Food) (5); J T S Lewis (secretary at the Ministry of Food) (4).Subjects include: deportation of internees; employment of aliens; housing shortages and...
Dates:
15 Mar 1939 - 16 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence L., 09 Jun 1941 - 25 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/82A-B
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Correspondents include: Stanley B de Lacey (12); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (17); Henry H Lassman (4).Subjects include: army surgeon training; War Damage Commission; road safety; Merchant Navy pensions; the mines ballot; building contracts; National Insurance; PAYE.Also includes: a statement issued by the National Federation of Building Trades Employers on advance preparation of housing sites.
Dates:
09 Jun 1941 - 25 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence N., 14 Feb 1940 - 20 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/86
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Correspondents include: Gilbert Gledhill, MP for Halifax [West Yorkshire]; Sir John Simon [Chancellor of the Exchequer] on mortgage interest rates; Lieutenant Colonel Augustus Charles Newman; Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (6).Other subjects include: housing shortages; the employment of children on the land; house requisitioning; relief for oil tanker crews; the supply of machine gunners to the Merchant Navy;...
Dates:
14 Feb 1940 - 20 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence O-Pi., 30 Jul 1940 - 24 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/87A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (6).Subjects include: RAF demobilization; pension enquiries; requisitioning of houses; Italian prisoners of war; War Service grants; railway shares; internment of aliens; petrol allowances.Also includes: a cartoon postcard of WSC and Hitler; a song written by H Chadwick Palmer; a British Legion newsletter (spring 1945).
Dates:
30 Jul 1940 - 24 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence O-R., 03 Jan 1939 - 08 Aug 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/58
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Correspondents include: J Butler Ormond (5); E Sylvia Pankhurst, Editor of the New Times and Ethiopia News, on the singer Herman Simberg and the transport of naval ratings' wives from Malta (4); 1st Lord Luke, [earlier George Johnston] Chairman of the Revenue Committee for the King Edward's Hospital Fund for London; Mary Relton, Secretary of Epping Division Conservative Association (5); Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour and National Service; Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division...
Dates:
03 Jan 1939 - 08 Aug 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Ra-Ri., 28 Oct 1941 - 31 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/90
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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (6); L R Prescott [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Health] (5).Subjects include: rehousing evacuees; the Post-war Credit savings scheme; opposition to the new medical service (June 1944); bomb damage claims, repair and new housing; the extra London allowance for servicemen's dependants; the Location of Retail Businesses Order; requests for...
Dates:
28 Oct 1941 - 31 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence S-T., 16 Nov 1938 - 14 Dec 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/59A-B
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Correspondents include: Basil Scruby (6); Leslie Hore-Belisha, Secretary of State for War, on London Anti-Aircraft Defences; Gilbert Granville Sharp (2); Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary, [later Lord Templewood]; Humbert Wolfe [Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Labour]; Edward Rawdon Smith, Public Relations Officer for London Passenger Transport Board; John Stark (6).Subjects include: local Conservative opposition to WSC; local government de-rating of industry; Abolition of Vivisection Bill;...
Dates:
16 Nov 1938 - 14 Dec 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Wan., 17 Aug 1940 - 24 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/100
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Correspondents include: Anthony Bevir [Private Secretary to WSC] (5); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (14).Subjects include: camouflage for hospitals and schools; public school bursaries; funding for Air Training Corps; shortage of ARP equipment; evacuation; famine relief for Europe; foreign policy towards Spain; Sea Cadet insurance; local War Savings campaign.Also includes: cuttings from local papers on Air...
Dates:
17 Aug 1940 - 24 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: correspondence Wh-Wi., 09 Jan 1940 - 27 Jul 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/102A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (13); E A Baker [secretary at the Ministry of Food] (4); I C Wilson (4).Subjects include: rehousing bomb victims; compassionate leave requests; defence bonds; war damage repair claims; tax allowances; pension enquiries; poultry feed rationing.Also includes: an extract from a House of Commons report on war damage to property; "The Surplus Women", a booklet by...
Dates:
09 Jan 1940 - 27 Jul 1945
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex] Election: correspondence., 02 Mar 1929 - 29 May 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/106A-B
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Correspondents include: Mary, Lady Blandford [later Mary, Duchess of Marlborough]; 2nd Lord Hamilton of Dalzell, on the bookmakers' opposition to the Conservatives because of the Tote Bill; Stanley Baldwin; John Walton Newbold; Arthur Duffes on Liberal wrecking tactics; Sir Percy Girouard.Other subjects include: the sale of the Casino and Hotel Napoleon, St Raphael [France]; Chingford [Essex] telephone system; recollections of Sir Henry Hozier; David Lloyd George's disappointing performance...
Dates:
02 Mar 1929 - 29 May 1929
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency, Epping [Essex]: election materials., Nov 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 7/24
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Includes correspondence from Gilbert Granville-Sharp [Liberal candidate for Epping]; Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association.Also includes: election pamphlets and flyers for WSC, Granville-Sharp and James Ranger [Labour candidate for Epping]; an advertisement for Westminster Public Address Equipment for vehicles.Subjects include: British foreign policy with regard to rearmament and European dictatorships; the economy.
Dates:
Nov 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Political: Constituency, out of seat: West Leicester election: correspondence., 13 Nov 1923 - 31 Dec 1923
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 6/1
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Sir Jonathan North; Sir George Barstow [Controller of Supply Services Treasury] on the Capital Levy; Ronald Allen [Liberal MP for south division of Leicester] on WSC's defeat.Subjects include: WSC's candidature; the implications of Frederick Pethick-Lawrence's [Labour candidate, subsequently MP for West Leicester] proposed Capital Levy.
Dates:
13 Nov 1923 - 31 Dec 1923
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From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex], 1943 - 1965
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3
Scope and Contents
This class of papers covers WSC's time as Conservative MP for Woodford, where he served from 26 July 1945 to 15 October 1964. His earlier years as MP for Epping [Essex] are covered in the pre-1945 Chartwell Papers at CHAR 7.The vast majority of the papers consists of correspondence handled by WSC's office and local officials, particularly representatives of Woodford Division Conservative Association, including the Honorary Secretaries and Agents Frederick Mummery, and later W Hubert...
Dates:
1943 - 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence., 25 Nov 1959 - 31 May 1962
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/105A-B
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Includes correspondence on constituency affairs by individuals including: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (13), Donald Forbes, Chairman [1956 - 61] (9), and Doris Moss, Chairman [from 1961] (5), on constituency affairs including finances, meetings, office holders, WSC's successor as MP and Barlow-Wheeler's future employment; "Rab" [R A Butler], Chairman, Conservative Party and Home Secretary, on subjects...
Dates:
25 Nov 1959 - 31 May 1962
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folio 124, closed until 2036 on Cabinet Office instructions.
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: correspondence about the general election., Aug 1951 - Nov 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/10
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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey, Chairman of Woodford Conservative Association (3); Oswald Silberrad. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Elizabeth Gilliatt, ?Richard Greville (Honorary Secretary), Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel], "Jo" Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], and Chips Gemmell; [Prime Minister's Private Secretaries] Anthony Bevir and Edward Cass; CSC (President of Woodford Conservative Association); and from WSC to some of those...
Dates:
Aug 1951 - Nov 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, A - B., 30 Jul 1951 - 29 Jan 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/67A-B
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Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association including Sir James Hawkey, Chairman, and W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (14); Peter Goldman [Head of Home Affairs Section], Conservative Research Department (2); James Allan, Private Secretary, Ministry of Pensions (6); (David) Colin Humphries, Private Secretary, Air Ministry (3); Thomas Caulcott, Assistant Principal, War Damage Commission (4); Herbert Ash, constituent (4); Bernard Lawrence,...
Dates:
30 Jul 1951 - 29 Jan 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open, except for folios 197 - 205, closed for 100 years until 2053 on data protection grounds due to the presence of sensitive and personal information on a potentially living individual.
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Political: Constituency: Woodford [Essex]: Correspondence with or on behalf of constituents, A - B., 12 Jul 1954 - 06 Dec 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 3/91A-B
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Correspondents include: representatives of Woodford Conservative Association, including John Harvey, Chairman (6) and W Hubert Barlow-Wheeler, Honorary Secretary and Agent (5); Robert Armstrong [later Lord Armstrong of Ilminster], Private Secretary to the [Chancellor of the Exchequer]; Alexander Gordon-Brown, Private Secretary, Home Office (2); Norman Calvert [Assistant Principal], Ministry of Housing and Local Government (7); Duncan Sandys, Minister of Housing and Local Government; Stuart...
Dates:
12 Jul 1954 - 06 Dec 1956
Conditions Governing Access:
Open