| Description | In a hot landscape, John Silkin, Minister for Planning and Local Government, blows a trumpet named 'Emergency Powers'. Various disgruntled figures look at him angrily, including a man washing his car, a woman watering her flowers and two children in a bath-tub.
Context: In the summer of 1976, the UK suffered 'the drought of the century' leading the government to introduce emergency measures to save water through the Drought Act, passed on 3 July. These included banning the use of hosepipes. |