Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham NPG x91158

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Elliott & Fry

Robens was an official in the Union of Distributive and Allied Workers from 1935. In the Labour landslide of 1945, he won the Wansbeck division of Northumberland from the Conservatives, and he remained Labour MP for this mining community (later renamed Blyth) until 1960. In 1961, he became the Chairman of the National Coal Board and was created a life peer as Baron Robens of Woldingham. Robens dealt with the considerable challenges faced by the nationalised coal industry in the 1960s as demand for coal... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.