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CG/6/7
Title
Book 'A Policeman's Lot...'
Description
Anthology of stories, cartoons and jokes about policemen with Giles cartoon on the cover. Shows Grandma outside Buckingham Palace picking flowers and being told by a policeman "Good morning, Madam, aren't we the lady that got done for sending Her Majesty six British Railway spoons for her Silver Wedding?" (Daily Express - 20 April 1976). Book sold in aid of the Police Dependants' Trust.
Also includes reproduction of Giles cartoons inside: Daily Express (31 August 1976) - "You say it all stems from your unhappy childhood. Your Mummy wouldn't let you have a teddy bear, so at precisely one minute after kick-off you decided to boot a policeman in the face"; Sunday Express (8 August 1976) - "Relax, they're mine."; Daily Express (11 November 1976) - "There we are, boys - PORNOKIT!'".
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Archival reference number
CG/6/7
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Copyright holder
The British Cartoon Archive
Copyright contact details
Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NU. Telephone and fax: 01227 823127
