Image ID: 09921

Town Hall During War Weapons Week, Market Place, Newark, 1941 March/April

Courtesy of Newark Advertiser Co.Ltd

Market Place
Newark on Trent
England

The Town Hall is adorned with a totaliser board surmounted by a painting of a tank by local artist and sculpture Robert Kiddey. The Newark Advertiser reported that in this one War Weapons Week, enough money had been raised in Newark (through the sale of Savings Certificates, Defence Bonds and National War Bonds) to buy twenty tanks, outstripping similar savings drives in Retford and Grantham. 'Well done! Newark' proclaimed the paper, announcing the total raised as

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