Blackout, meal by candlelight, 1949

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Blackout, meal by candlelight, 1949

Once again the victims of an unofficial strike: the long-suffering public. Recalling the inconveniences of the long wartime blackout: people having a meal by candlelight at a Clapham restaurant in December 1949. The strike was of London power station workers at Barking (at this time Europes largest generating unit). Date: 1949

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© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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