"Don't just sit there, Fred - get a house renovation grant." : If you need an inside lavoratory, proper bathroom or a hot water supply, see about a free grant at your town hall / Department of the Environment and the Welsh Office.

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[1978]
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"Don't just sit there, Fred - get a house renovation grant." : If you need an inside lavoratory, proper bathroom or a hot water supply, see about a free grant at your town hall / Department of the Environment and the Welsh Office. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Poster issued by the Department of the Environment in 1978 offering grants for modernization of houses to improve domestic sanitation. This one shows a fat woman in a pink dressing gown and slippers standing in front of an outside toilet with a corrugated iron roof in the rain, banging on the green door with her fist. It is illustrated in the style of the Bamforth traditional seaside postcards.

Publication/Creation

[London] : Department of the Environment and the Welsh Office, [1978]
London : Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by UDO (Litho) Ltd., [1978]

Physical description

1 broadside : 1 illustration ; 77 cm

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