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- ↑ "CHADWICK, Albert Paxton". suffolkartists.co.uk. Suffolk Artists. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
- ↑ Wall, Christine (3 April 2019). "'Nuclear prospects': the siting and construction of Sizewell A power station 1957-1966" (PDF). Contemporary British History. 33 (2): 246–273. doi:10.1080/13619462.2018.1519424. S2CID 150174829.
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