Thursday, June 19, 2008

Memories of May 1993 - Newbury by-election

Lanson boy is showing some excellent photos of the Henley by-election campaign.

One series in particular, of the latest magazine being off-loaded from a van into the HQ, brought back memories of the Newbury by-election campaign in 1993 (and I note in passing that Newbury constituency abuts the Henley constituency via the Thames). Indeed, the BBC captured such a sequence for their "On the Record" montage of the campaign. The sequence features a particularly keen and fresh-faced volunteer taking a bundle of newspapers off the van, timelined at 8am on Saturday 1st May (1993). (The by-election was on the following Thursday, 6th May).

Oh look, a rather naff screenshot of this just happens to be below.

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