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Fight To Stay Out Of Peterlee - South Hetton (sout0080)

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Photograph of an unidentified man standing in front of a bus stop on which a notice reading Peterlee is a Nightmare not a Dream; the photograph has been identified as recording part of the campaign by the inhabitants of South Hetton to remain outside the area of Peterlee, the New Town designated in 1948 and presumably with plans for expansion in 1959

Fight To Stay Out Of Peterlee - South Hetton

Photograph of an unidentified man standing in front of a bus stop on which a notice reading Peterlee is a Nightmare not a Dream; the photograph has been identified as recording part of the campaign by the inhabitants of South Hetton to remain outside the area of Peterlee, the New Town designated in 1948 and presumably with plans for expansion in 1959

Date: 1959


this is Thomas Truswell.

Comment added by John Pearson on 12/10/2008 15:08:00

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