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Lord's Day Observance Society
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(Bromley, Kent) The leading pressure group against secular activities on Sundays. Founded in 1831 by Anglican clergy and laymen, it has fought an energetic rearguard action to protect people from being diverted on Sundays by visits to the zoo or trips on the Thames (two of its earliest campaigns), or in more recent times by the cinema (in the 1930s), by advertisements on television (the 1950s) or by Sunday cricket matches (the 1960s). A notable reverse, about which the society protested strongly, was the tendency (first observed in the 1950s) of the duke of Edinburgh to play polo on the Lord's Day. In the 1990s the society's long-running battle against *Sunday trading was finally lost.
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