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1961 Press Photo Police remove protestor trying to get foxhunting banned

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Uproar At The Annual Meeting Of The R.S.P.C.A. At Kingsway Hall: The annual meeting of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals held at Kingsway Hall, London, yesterday, broke up in deafening shouts and jeers as police tried to move a woman who was lying on the platform. It was the biggest row ever to face the Society over its policy of refusing to press for foxhunting to be banned. Photo Shows: Two plain-clothes policemen try to remove 56-year-old Miss Gwendolen Barter, of Broadstairs, from the platform where she was lying in protest against the society refusal to press for foxhunting to be banned.

Photo measures 6 x 8.25 inches.

Photo is dated 06-06-1961.



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