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Catalogue reference: CLW/1/4/9

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CLW/1/4/9
Title
File
Date
1957
Description

Self-Government celebrations in Western Nigeria (Colonel Tufton Beamish was one of a two-man delegation from the UK Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association attending these celebrations. The other member was Hector Hughes MP. They also visited Ghana and Southern (British) Cameroon. [See also CLW/1/4/10, and CLW/1/7/8]

Includes official programmes, briefing notes, administrative correspondence, letters of welcome (including one from the Premier of Western Nigeria, Chief Obafemi Awolowo), newspaper cuttings, Official Reports of the Western Nigeria House of Assembly, set of photographs of the parliamentary ceremony, copy report on the whole visit

Held by
East Sussex Record Office
Language
English
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/49a74323-45a4-46ed-af50-8b532e200e1a/

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CLW/1/4

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