Police, 1988 Photograph. [6].

Format:

Image

Contributor:

Kennedy, Bill, photographer.

Mirrorpix, owner.

Language:

No linguistic content

Genre:

Photographs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 photograph).

Production:

[United Kingdom?] : Daily Mirror, Bill Kennedy, 1988.

Summary:

Archival caption: Police destroy obscene publications in giant underground furnace, 30th June 1988. Thousands of pornographic books and videos have finally gone up in smoke, after a three-year legal battle to have them ruled obscene. It took 15 men nearly a day to send the first consignment of 40.000 dirty magazines down a chute to a vast underground furnace. Some of the police officers who took part in the original raid, on Valentine's Day 1985, are now helping to get rid of the haul. Magistrates made police hand back 500,000 magazines valued at about 2 million pounds, But Brian Richards, who runs the Quietlynn Ltd publications empire, finally lost his appeal against the destruction order on 4 million pounds worth of magazines and videos.

Notes:

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Reference: 00935413.