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Captions include:
<ul><li>An early cartoon illustrating some of the birth control myths of medieval Europe. The FPA, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, now runs a free information service to overcome the ignorance about relationships and contraception which even today causes unhappiness and unwanted pregnancies.</li>
<li>Dr Michael Smith Honourary Chief Medical Officer Family Planning Association</li>
<li>Carribean Outreach worker - Midlands Region 1987</li>
<li>"Loving + Caring" from section "Boy's Talk"</li>
<li>Regency FPA Clinic at Gambier Terrace Liverpool</li>
<li>Dr Michael Smith - Vasectomy counselling caravan (Waterloo station)</li>
<li>HEC stills for antenatal campaign</li>
<li>Andrea Whalley, Regional Administrator for London, reporting back to the "Men Sex and Relationships" conference organised by the FPA in March 1985, after one of the afternoon workshop sessions.</li>
<li>[label]Looking forward. David is our Regional Chairman and he believes that the radio phone-in doctor can be seen as a new medical resource. He has a weekly Phone-in on Liverpool's Radio City. [written on] Region 7 report Dr David Robertson</li>
<li>[label] looking back to 1927. Annie, who was 83 in May and has known Gambier Terrace most of her life, looks at the sign we still have on the backdoor. She remembers how local hostility prevented the use of the words "family planning" and forced women to avoid using the door. [written on]Region 7 report Annie Wallace</li>
<li>Xenopus Laevis - It was not until the early sixties that modern chemical methods of pregnancy testing were developed, whereupon the FPA's redundant toads were found new homes in zoos and schools around the country.</li>
<li>Hong Kong Family Planning Clinic shot</li>
<li>Deputy Chairman June 1975</li>
<li>Dr M Smith Pop Day Vasectomy Van Waterloo Station 1973</li>
<li>Chichester Group</li>
<li>Patient, doctor in FPA clinic</li>
<li>Dorothy White FPA Director 1978/1979</li>
<li>Annmarie Carte, RA NE England and the first members of the YTS funded "Youth Project"</li>
<li>Bury Knowle House</li>
<li>A still from the FPA's video "Danny's Big Night" in which Danny (standing right) talks things over with his friend</li>
<li>The Renstens provided an entertainment on the theme of "Men Sex & Relationships" before lunch</li>
<li>Standing L-R: Lorraine Danny + 2 friends</li>
<li>John Gordon Sinclair, star of Gregory's Girl in a still from the FPA's public service announcement for Grampian TV.</li>
<li>Dr Brian Lloyd, who was recently appointed Chairman of the Health Education Council in succession to Mr Leslie Baines. Dr Lloyd, who is 58, is Director of Oxford Polytechnic. He has been a member of the Council since 1975 and has served as Chairman of its Education Committee.</li>
<li>Mrs Charis Frankenburg, drawn by her interest in midwifery and social welfare, was one of the founders of the Manchester, Salford and District Mothers Clinic which opened in March 1962.</li>
<li>No tour of the FPAs Pregnancy Diagnosis Laboratory, opened in 1949, was complete without an inspection of the heated water tanks containing 125 female specimins of the South African clawed toad, Wenopus Laevis. The toads were shipped to London in batches of 500 from their native Capetown to be used for pregnancy testing on British women.</li>
<li>Eric McGraw, Campaign director, Population Concern, Interviews HRH Prince Philip, President, World Wildlife Fund, During the making of the film, "The Human Race".</li>
<li>Dr Roger Bannister, CBE, speaking at the Tenth Anniversary Celebration of Brook Advisory Centres at Haberdashers' Hall.</li>
<li>Mrs Hermin Whitfield, new field officer for Grapevine, the community sex education project of the FPA.</li>
<li>Susan Hampshire visiting Population Concern funded project in Bangladesh</li></ul>

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