Saturday, October 24, 2009

Hayes Urban District Council 1926 Election

HAYES URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL
LABOUR CANDIDATES 1926

Douglas Page, 40 Central Avenue (Beltman Engineer)
George Marshall, 9 Hunters Grove Great Western Garden Village (Railway Supervisor)
Albert Edward Knight, The Nursery Pistill's Lane (Insurance Agent)

ALSO POSSIBLE HAYES LABOUR CANDIDATES
George Alfred Manley, Kenwyn Hose, Uxbridge Road (Insurance Agent) (Need to confirm)
William John Smith, 13 Third Avenue (Organ Builder) (Need to confirm)

*Fairly positive both Labour candidates

YIEWSLEY
LABOUR CANDIDATES 1926

Samuel Thorn, 12 Horton Road (Insurance Agent)
Albert Hunt, 56 Ernest Road (Carpenter)
Thomas Littleworth, 61 Albert Road, (Labourer)

UXBRIDGE
LABOUR CANDIDATES 1926

Sarah Ann Dubberley, 9 Waterloo Road (Married Woman)
Charles Oughton, 111 Manor Waye (Labourer)
Frank Toplis, 118 Cowley Mill Road (Carpenter)
George Augustus Kingsford, 63 Chilton View Road (Salesman)

Mrs Sarah Ann Dubberley had been elected to the Uxbridge Board of Guardians unopposed in 1925
Mrs Dubberley was finally elected in 1929 as first Labour Councillor on (new) Uxbridge Councillor. First elected Labour Councillors in Uxbridge 1910.

RUISLIP - NORTHWOOD
LABOUR CANDIDATES 1926
Joseph Otho Young, 172 Hilliard Road Northwood (Railway Clerk)
Henry Herbert Hirst, Blithewood, Edward Avenue, South Ruislip (Mathematical Tutor)
Alfred Wheatsheaf Telling, Lime Grove Eastcote (Plastering contractor)


WEALDSTONE 1926
LABOUR CANDIDATES

Kathleen Mary Davies, 19 Harrow View (Married Woman)
Sydney Bleaney ,58 Graham Road (Railway Carman)
Thomas Irwin Ellis, 3 Haverlock Road (Painters Assistant)
Henry George Gange, 19 Peel Road (clerk)

*Mrs A Belshaw, (Labour) 32 Claremount Road, Wealdstone (Elected) in 1925 HARROW 1926

HARROW 1926
LABOUR CANDIDATES

Wallace Frederick Clarke, 7 Kingsfield Terrace (Gas Service Layer)
Francis Alfred Coles, 75 Parkfield Road (Civil Servant)
Sarah Rebecca Ludbrooke, 23 Sumner Road (Married Woman)
William Frederick Oliver, 22 Grange Road (Gas Worker)
Frederick William Perkins, 4 Gayton Road (Solistor)

* Mrs Sarah Ludbrooke had only narrowly lost at the last Harrow election (1925) being elected as a Labour Councillor. Ludbrooke had been the first woman candidate from any Party to stand for election in Harrow in 1924.

SLOUGH 1926
LABOUR CANDIDATES

Kate Lydia Mapstone, 32 Montague Road (Married Woman)
Edith Liza Mitchell, 15 Stoke Poges Lane (Married Woman)
Lillian Maud Whiley (Wailey?), 76 Montague Road (Teacher)
William James Templeman, 40 Ragstone Road (Sanitary Engineer)
Henry Pierce Dodds, 14 Herachel Street (Fish Store Proprietor)
Arthur John Frenchum, 32 Gilbert Road (Railway Clerk

* Kate Mapstone's husband,
William Mapstone was elected as a Labour Councillor in 1924

William Templeman was already a sitting Labour councillor in Slough