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| Picture No | 11938803 |
| Date | 1949 |
| Description | Blackout, meal by candlelight, 1949 |
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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 Europe's largest generating unit).
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| Source | The Illustrated London News, 24th December 1949 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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