“1925, the Chancellor of the Exchequer leaves No. 11 Downing Street to introduce his first Budget” (BRDW 1/2/100)

Full length photograph of WSC standing just outside the doorway of 11 Downing Street, London, looking directly at the camera and smiling, while dressed in an overcoat, top hat and spotted bow tie, and carrying a despatch box and gloves in one hand and his cane in the other, a smoking cigar between his fingers. An unidentified woman is visible in the shadow of the doorway behind him. The caption also notes that WSC’s Budget “was notable for its reduction in Income Tax, equal to one shilling in the pound”.

28 Apr 1925