Two women collect signatures for a petition opposing the government’s decision to introduce museum entrance charges outside Woolworth’s in Oxford, England. – Vintage Photograph

On Saturday morning, Miss Ruth Jackson and Mrs Isobel Cosgrove were collecting signatures for a petition to oppose the government’s decision to introduce museum entrance charges. The two women were outside Woolworth’s in Oxford, England, and were met with an overwhelmingly positive response as over 80 percent of those they approached expressed opposition to the charges.On Saturday morning, Miss Ruth Jackson and Mrs Isobel Cosgrove were collecting signatures for a petition to oppose the government’s decision to introduce museum entrance charges. The two women were outside Woolworth’s in Oxford, England, and were met with an overwhelmingly positive response as over 80 percent of those they approached expressed opposition to the charges.

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it el le Signing on for free museums petition e n SOUKOT Museums Two women spent Satur day morning collecting sig- natures outside Woolworth’s in Cornmarket Street, Ox- ford, for a petition opposing the government’s decision to introduce museum entrance Here Miss Ruth Jackson adds Mr Hayden charges. Jenkins’ signature to the list. The other organiser of the petition, Mrs Isobel Cos- grove, who teaches at the University School of Geo- graphy, said she and her hus- band had got the idea of 29 JAN 1971 AN 1971 signatures from collecting friends in London who were collecting them outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. Her husband Denis, who is doing rsearch at the Univer- sity School of Geography, said that over 80 per cent of the people they had ap- proached had been opposed “We to museum charge. canvassing in have been various parts of Oxford,” he said, “and only a very feu people said they favourea charges 33 + 2+25 / prox