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Congress split over venue
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newspaper cutting
Southport Journal Visiter
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Lancashire, Southport
1968-03-14
newsprint
overall: 314 x 310 mm

Press article reporting the complaint of Mr F.C. Norville that Southport was an inadequate venue for the Northern Optical Congress. Includes a photograph of the mayor being greeted by congress officials and Mr Norville, plus a woman wearing a fantasy frame by Raphaels, a four year old boy wearing an oversized pair of glasses and a woman having her eyes tested on a refracting unit by Phillips of Liverpool.


2006.739

Gift of Norville Optical Group, 2006



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