Aneurin Bevan statue, Queen Street, Cardiff
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Aneurin Bevan statue, Queen Street, Cardiff
Image: © Christopher Hilton Taken: 29 Aug 2013
Aneurin "Nye" Bevan (1897-1960), one of the biggest figures of the post-war Labour party, grew up in South Wales during the impoverished interwar years and was profoundly shaped by that experience. He summed this up in a speech of 1948, the year the National Health Service came into being under his stewardship, which we can imagine him delivering here: "... no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin."
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Image Location
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51.481716
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-3.17749