Saturday 24 September 2011

Banned But Never Forgotten,

just a couple of the collection of 128 cards that were seized by the police in Margate, Kent,



considered by the authorities at the time to be a corrupting influence and obscene, thousands of these postcards were seized in the 1950's, the campaign saw 1,300 postcards confiscated in coastal resorts throughout England and Wales, their artists prosecuted,


some of them 10,15 times year after year in different resorts, but now over 60 years later, the Director of Public Prosecution's office have deemed them fit for viewing and has relinquished its collection to go on show so we can be outraged once more - or wonder what the fuss was about, 'are they still obscene? or are they innocent fun? the collection offers up a clear picture of the morality of the day,' says Dr Nick Hiley, head of the British cartoon archive, to see the full collection they will be on display at the, I Wish I Could See My Little Willy, at the University of Kent's Templeman Library in Canterbury until November 13, go quick before the PC brigade bans them all again!

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