Hayes Labour Councillors

Early Hayes Labour Association Councillors

Henry Palmer (Bricklayer) 1911-1913

Oak Cottages, High Road

Percy Osborne Langton (Clerk) 1912-1915

18 Angel Lane, Hayes End

Juan Colonna Drenon (Bookseller) 1913-1917 (UDC Chair 1915)

Barra Hall, Wood End, Hayes

William Rawlings (Packing Case Maker) 1914-

(Chair 1919) 1 Sydney Villas, Blythe Rd

Frederick V Mason (Machinist) 1914-1920

6 Silverdale Rd

Robert William Gunton (Civil Servant) 1915 -1936

1 West Gate Villas, High Road, Hayes

F Woodard 1914 -1920

W. Herbert Rhodes (Painter) 1915-1919

17 Cranmer Rd, Hayes End

Fredrick Henry Conway (Woodworker)

11 Austin Road, Hayes

George Alfred. Manley (Sanitary Engineer) 1919-(Chair 1920)

6 the Parade, High Road

H. Booth 1917-1919

Launcelot Fowler 1919-

J.W Davies 1919 ???????

Robert John Leach (Engineer) 1920

1 Clare Villas, Clarendon Rd

Albert Edward Knight (Insurance Agent) 1920-

The Nursery, Pistill Lane

Horace Sydney Greenhead (Engineer) 1920

19 Tudor Rd

Councillor Woolatt

 Mr C.R. Woolatt of Errol Gardens, Hayes, Middlesex was a member of the Hayes Urban District Council in the 1950s, he had been an employed by Glaxo's Laboratories at Greenford for 33 years until he retired in February 1971. 

Mr Woolatt joined Glaxo's in 1938 as a joiner and became charge hand in 1956. This was followed by subsequent promotions.Cllr Woolatt held the post of assistant building engineer at Glaxo's.

He served in the RAF for five years during the second world war.

He had alsoserved as a Labour councillor on n Ealing Borough council before moving to Hayes in 1956. 
In 1957 he was elected as a Labour councillor to Hayes and Harlington Urban District Council.

Mr Woolatt had been the founder member of Perivale Community association and served as its chairman for seven years. He was also a keen Co-operator and was Secretary of the National Guild of Cooperators (Harlington branch).

On retirement he stated he and his intended to go traveling

Labour candidates Hillingdon 1971

Cricket 1970 - Anti Apartheid

Anti Apartheid demonstration Hayes 1971

Hayes Trades Union Council

Hayes Trades Union Council 

circa 1960

Hayes Trades Union Council was an organisation that represented all the local branches of unions active locally in the Hayes area (including Heathrow)

centre 

Arthur Skeffington MP for Hayes & Harlington

Elsie "Maggie" Broughton

Labour Red Rose Poster 1986

Hillingdon Poll Tax Rebels - Remembered 1989

Hillingdon Labour Councillors opposing the Poll Tax 1989

Nine Labour Councillors refused to pay

including

Brian Hudson
Chris Rogers
Jon Davey
Keith Dobson
Michael Walker
Jane Rose
Richard Farrell
Pete James

London Back Under Labour Control

MIGHTY
CITY

LONDON

BACK UNDER LABOUR CONTROL 2010

LABOUR ROLL CALL

Barking & Dagenham
Brent
Camden
Ealing
Enfield
Greenwich
Hackney
Haringey
Harrow
Hounslow
Lambeth
Lewisham
Islington
Newham
Southwark
Tower Hamlets
Waltham Forest

HAYES (HILLINGDON) ROLL CALL

BARNHILL 3 Labour
BOTWELL 3 Labour
CHARVILLE 1 Labour
HEATHROW 1 Labour
PINKWELL 3 Labour
TOWNFIELD 3 Labour
YEADING 3 Labour

Labour win 17 out 21

Hayes Labour Party 100 Years Not Out

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John McDonnell - Re Elected in Hayes

John McDonnell MP

100 Years of Hayes Labour Party 1910-2010

Labour re-elected at Hayes 2010

Labour Victory in Hayes Council Seats

John McDonnell	Labour	23,377	54.8	-1.6
Scott Seaman-Digby	Conservative	12,553	29.4	+1.7
Satnam Kaur Khalsa	Liberal Democrat	3,726	8.7	-1.1
Chris Forster	British National Party	1,520	3.6	+1.3
Andrew Cripps	National Front	566	1.3	+1.3
Cliff Dixon	English Democrats	464	1.1	+1.1
Jessica Lee	Green	348	0.8	-0.6
Aneel Shahzad	Christian Party	83	0.2	+0.2
Majority		10,824	25.4
Turnout		42,637	60.7	+5.4

George "Gideon " Osbourne Conservative Shadow Chancelor stated

“There are lots of seats in London which at the beginning of the campaign I wouldn't have thought it possible to win but now I think we can,” said Mr Osborne. “Hayes & Harlington was not on our radar at all at the beginning of the campaign.” The shadow chancellor, also co-ordinator of the campaign, said: “We are fighting for a Conservative majority. I think that's within our grasp.”

Evening Standard 4th May 2010



RESULT 2005

Labour: 19009 (58.7%)
Conservative: 8162 (25.2%)
Liberal Democrat: 3174 (9.8%)
BNP: 830 (2.6%)
Green: 442 (1.4%)
UKIP: 552 (1.7%)
Other: 220 (0.7%)

Majority: 10847 (33.5%)


RESULT 2001

Labour: 21279 (65.7%)
Conservative: 7813 (24.1%)
Liberal Democrat: 1958 (6%)
BNP: 705 (2.2%)
Other: 648 (2%)
Majority: 13466 (41.6%)

RESULT 1997

Labour: 25458 (62%)
Conservative: 11167 (27.2%)
Liberal Democrat: 3049 (7.4%)
Referendum: 778 (1.9%)
Other: 639 (1.6%)
Majority: 14291 (34.8%)

Hayes Labour Party 1911 Election Address

Hayes Labour Party (Hayes Labour Association as it was originally known) was established in 1910 by Henry Palmer (Bricklayer) and Percy Langton (Clerk).

Henry Palmer was the first elected Labour Party Hayes Councillor in 1911. By 1914 the Labour Party had secured its first majority on Hayes Urban District Council. One of the first Labour controlled Council's in Britain.

*Click on image to enlarge

Councillor George Moses - Hayes

COUNCILLOR GEORGE MOSES

George Moses was one of the foremost politically "progressives" in Hayes, Middlesex, at the early part of the twentieth century.

He lived at 1, Blythe Road , Botwell, Hayes and was a grocer by trade.

Moses was politically close to the Liberal Party and infact nominated the Liberal candidate Sidney Pocock in the 1906 General election, but would later back Labour candidates such as Henry Palmer Hope Cottage, High Road, Hayes , Hayes first Labour Councillor and in 1911 stand as a Labour candidate.

Moses had been elected to the old Hayes Parish Council as early as 1903 and stood for re election in 1905 held on 3rd April, the polling station being at Dr Triplett's School.

Other Hayes Council candidates in 1905 included
John Brown, Railway Arms, Licenced Victuallar
John Hetherington, Cumbria, Station Road, Engineer
Albert John Humphrey, Paignton House, Railway Station Master
Ernest William Shackle, Redleaf, Hayes, Farmer

The full list of Hayes councillors elected in 1905 included
Mr E.H. Beckett Chairman, Mr J. Richards Vice Chairman, Thomas Bradberry, Egerton Henry Tucker, JohnHetherington, George Fulford, George Moses and Dr E.J. Parrott with Mr C. Dudley Lewis Clerk and Mr C. Curtis Gray Surveyor.

The failure of Shackle to be elected was surprising given that at this period in time many "Working men still "doffed" their hats to the local Squire Shackle.

George Moses early ally on the council was George Lowe, a Florist of Angel Lane, Hayes who was also politically close to the Liberals.

Local "progressives" who backed Sidney Pocock at the general election of June 1906, include:-

Egerton Henry Tucker, Issac Ellis, Albert Edward Viveash, Walter Ayres, John James Richards, James Smith, Thomas Smith, Henry Palmer (later founder of Hayes Labour Party in 1910), George Spink.

Sidney Pocock came within 145 votes of unseating the Tory grandee and founder of the Primrose League Sir Freerick Dixon-Hartland for the Uxbridge Division

Mr Moses "I have protested against the employment of outside Labour at 4.5p per hour I strongly advocate local labour and trade union wages to all bona fide workingmen resident in the Parish".

George Lowe "Would like a fair wage clause in contracts and employment of local labour" and Councillor Isreal Ellis (Jewish Industrial School) also supported fair wages.

At the March 1908 UDC election, Georges Moses was nominated by George Lowe and seconded by Daniel Bunce.

Moses spoke at a Liberal meeting at the Council School Botwell in 1908 when J.W.Kennedy of Ealing presided and the main speaker was Alderman West ex Mayor of Battersea, other speakers included Councillor Moses and Lowe.

George Lowe who was finally elected in April 1908, seconded George Moses resolution on trade union rates of pay.

August 1908 George Moses moved that the council introduce trade union rates of pay, this was again not supported.

At the 1911 Hayes UDC election George Moses stood as a Labour candidate along with William Rawlins 1, Sydney Villas, Blythe Road and Henry Palmer, Hope Cottage, High Road, Hayes.

The Labour Election platform for Hayes UDC in 1911 included
Municipal Housing
Town Planning
Public access to Open Spaces
Fair Wages (Trade Union rates of Pay)
Allotments
Extra Polling Station

The election was held at Dr Tripletts School Monday 27th March 1911 between the hours of 8am to 8pm .

* Click on photos to enlarge - Moses shop from Middx.net

Hayes Labour Hall 1930

The Hayes Labour Hall, Pump Lane, Hayes, Middlesex. Known often as the "Kremlin" has been the centre of political power in Hayes for Eighty years.

The Hayes Labour hall was opened by Dr Marion Phillips MP for Sunderland on 28^th June 1930.

Soon after its opening, substantial alterations were made to the hall costing £200. These alterations included painting the exterior, the two cloakrooms were built (at the front of the hall, a kitchen was built, a stage erected, and a partition built in order that two meetings could be held on the same evening.

Mr P Brown who presided over the official opening after the refurbishment in October 1930 “welcomed them to the supporters of the hall to their new home which was the result of continuous efforts on the part of some of their fellow members of the various organisations in the district, some of these workers were not now associated with the task but the efforts had to be borne in mind at such a time as this”.

He went on “the opening of the hall filled a real need in the district and he felt that the various organizations would not be sorry to have a meeting place in which there was a security of tenure without appealing to the generosity of anybody”.

They had not the perfect place perhaps but with time and suggestions from the people using the accommodation he thought they would be able to make themselves comfortable”

The Hayes Labour Hall is a “corrugated metal” structure and was formerly owned by the Hayes Wesleyan Church from who the Hayes Labour Party purchased it and moved it to the present site, The hall and the extra land cost the Labour party £164.00 secured through a mortgage on top of which was a piano purchased at the cost of £3.

Top picture Hayes Labour Hall, Pump Lane circa 1989 and bottom picture 2008

Hayes & Harlington UDC 1950

Labour candidates 1950

East Ward
Stanley George Chilton, 66 Hollywood Gardens
R.M. Smith, 23 Shaftesbury Waye
A.Smith, 138 Church Road

South Ward
Ossie Garvin, 44 Church Road,
Mr Fippard, Gordon Crescent

West Ward
Ernest Kirby Harding 62 Central Avenue
H. Blackburn, Bushey Road, Harlington
F.W.D. Rosser, 94 Tudor Road

Harlington Ward
M. Wheeler, 9 St Dunstans Close, Harlington

Prior to the 1950 Council elections the Hayes & Harlington UDC consisted of 24 Labour Councillors and 2 Conservatives.

It is expected that after the election Labour will hold all 26 seats and be 100% Labour council

Councillor R. Bristow (Labour) and Councillor W.W. Chubb (Labour) are standing down this year

Hayes & Harlington Labour Party Officers 1973

Councillor Ted Harris succeeds party vetran Bert Hann as Hayes & Harlington President.

Mr Harris sees his job as to forge closer ties with the trade union movement particularly in this year of the Greater London council elections.

The GLC candidate for Hayes is Councillor Peter Russell the vice chairman of Hillingdon Council Education Committee.

Ernie Wiltshire and Mrs O. Garvin (wife of former Hillingdon Mayor Ossie Garvin) were both elected as Vice Presidents.

Dudley Targett remains as Constituency Secretary and Stanley Chilton as Party Treasurer

Mick Martin is election agent

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NOTE:
Councillor Robert John Came, Labour Mayor of Hillingdon, reported on his visit the three towns the London Borough of Hillingdon are "twinned with"
Mantes la Jolie in France
Shleswig and Emden in Germany

The links with Scleswig seem to have lasted longer with links with the SPD (Socialist) being maintained.

Alfred Horace Smith

Councillor Alfred Horace Smith was a Labour Councillor (1936?-1960) and Chairman (Mayor) of Hayes Urban District Council in 1950.

He was also Chairman of the Finance Committee, he served on West London Rent Tribunal and was also Deputy Chairman of Rating & Valuation Committee. He retired from these committees aged 75.

He was married to Marion and had three daughters Joyce, Phyllis (who lived in Fiji) and Pamela and they lived at Crowland Avenue, Hayes .


Councillor Smith was a printers reader by trade, a trustee of the Typographical Society (Union) and a Labour Party member for over sixty years.

During World War 1 he served in the Royal Horse Artillery and during World War 11 in the ARP.

He died in Hillingdon Hospital on Monday 11th October 1971.

Councillor Alfred Horace Smith funeral was held at the South West Middlesex Crematorium, Feltham.

Note
It states in Hayes News, Saturday 16th, 1971, that he was a councillor 1956-1960 but this is obviously a mistake.

there is also reference to Alfred Smith being "Prospective Parliamentary candidate for Hayes" also states he was Chairman in 1945 (but can not collaborate this)

Juan Colonna Drenon

Juan Colonna Drenon born 1865 in Liverpool, was a newsagent/bookseller, living at Barra Hall Villa, Hayes.

He is undoubtedly one of the most important people, in the subsequent development of Hayes politically and geographically.

Juan Drenon was an early member of Hayes Labour Labour Association (later Party) and was elected as one the first Hayes Labour Councillors for West Ward in 1913.

In the following year he was elected Secretary of the rapidly expanding Hayes Labour Association in 1914


It can be no accident, that when Labour secured its first majority on Hayes council, it turned to Drenon to be its first Labour Chairman (Mayor)1915-1916. An honour not only unique to Hayes but allegedly to South East England (outside London)

During WW1 Drenon was involved with his wife in the Hayes Belgium Relief Fund, which attempted to help Belgium refugees settle in Hayes . Drenon personally accommodated a Belgium family for free, for four monthsion in his house.

Drenon also took up issue of high private rents , Drenon denounced the profiteering of private land lords, who had increased rents allegedly by as much as 3s a week. Drenon advocated the establishment of a Tenants Defence League to fight the rent increases.

Councillor Juan Drenon also made a withering attack on the ruling class and their form of patriotism , in a brilliant and blistering attack in July 1915 ,denouncing them accordingly.....

"The patriotism of many so called patriots, starts and ends with their pockets.
It was the same with the coal owners who grew fat out of the country’s needs and risk the country’s safety rather than give the colliers a living wage”

Later, Drenon became the first Labour Justice of the Peace in the area and also elected as a member of Uxbridge Joint Hospital Board.


Drenon's legacy to Hayes is the generally high standard of Council housing in Hayes. He was one of the main advocates of the massive post WW1, Hayes Housing scheme and accompanying town planning.


Councillor Juan Drenon's, endeavours were recognised by the Council, in the naming of Drenon Square after him.

In August 1917, Drenon wrote to the council resigning his Council seat "for business reasons and living now many miles outside the district"

Drenon moved to 5, Wroughton Terrace, Hendon and was at some point employed as a clerk.

Juan Colonna Drenon died Napsbury Hospital, 10th April 1921

Juan Colonna Drenon deserves much greater recognition in Hayes,


NOTES:



His wife was Maud Agnes Sparkes of Paddington/clerkenwell (married March 1910 at Hendon)

JC Drenon went to America (New York) in 1892 to find work

picture of J.C. Drenon 26th March 1915 Advertiser

We believe he was Born in Liverpool in 1865

• Child: Reina DRENON Birth: 1893, Uckfield, Sussex, Englandrrotnvf
• Child: Ethel Colonna DRENON Birth: 16 Apr 1896, St Pancras, London
• Child: George Colonna DRENON Birth: 20 Oct 1897, Islington, London
• Child: Vera Marion L. DRENON Birth: 23 Mar 1899, Islington, London
• Child: Ruby Leonore DRENON Birth: Mar 1903, Islington, London

Peter Francis Fagan
Labour Parliament arty Candidate 11th June 1987
107 Lansbury Lane, Hayes

Born Dublin
Educated by the Brothers at Catholic school Shopkeeper

Lived above his hardware shop at 107 Lansbury Drive, Hayes
TGWU member elected to Hillingdon Council in 1973 as a Labour Councillor

Superb Labour Group Leader Labour candidate for Hayes & Harlington
Retired to South West England to run a Garden Centre circa 1988
died soon after

well known for his Irish quick whit and ability to make people valued
you either loved him or hated him

his famous catch phrase being

(pointing to head) This is for thinking with,(pointing to his feet) these are for dancing with

and usually attacking a fellow Irish but Liberal councillor "you culchie, red neck "

nomination
Proposer: Brian Neighbour
Seconder: Michael Walker
David Kerry
Graham Tomlin
Michael Craxton
Jeffrey Gray
Hubert "Charlie" Key
Graham "Chris" Rogers
Christopher Malkin

Election headquarters, APEX union office, Clayton Road


(Photo) Dickie Bond ?, Peter Fagan, John McDonnell

Councillor Nehemiah Lawson Shakespeare - Hayes

Nehemiah Lawson Shakespeare

A former magistrate and Labour chairman of the Hayes & Harlington Urban District Council has died in Hillingdon Hospital after a long illness.

Mr Nehemiah Lawson Shakespeare — who often used his second name, Lawson — died last week. He was 86.

MrLawson Shakespeare was a member of the former Haves and Harlington Urban district Council for 19 years. he was Chairman from 1954-1955

Draftsman

Mr Shakespeare became a Justice of the Peace in 1955 and for many years served as an Uxbridge magistrate.

He was also involved in several other committees and organisations.

In 1946 he founded the Hayes and Harlington Community Association.

Mr Shakespeare spent 21 years on the Southern Electricity Board consultation committee and 16 years as a member of the Southall Technical College governing committee.

He was also a former chairman of the St Bernard Hospital (Mental hospital) management committee.

Mr Shakespeare, of Little Road, Hayes, retired for Thorn EMI in 1965 after working for 36 years as a design draftsman (member of the DATA union). He is survived by his wife, Ethel, and two sons, Raymond and Kenneth.

His funeral was at Breakspear Crematorium, Ruislip, on Wednesday

Gazette 28 February 1985

Hayes By-Pass - Labour Party Demand 1984

Hayes Bypass was fought for by the local Hayes Labour Party for many years, but credit must go to campaigners such as Ossie Garvin, Peter Fagan and John McDonnell in forcing it through to conclusion.

The protest above dates from 1984

The Hayes Gazette records that

Peak-hour traffic was held up in Hayes Town Centre on Thursday evening by Hayes Bypass demonstrators.

Protesters, led by Greater London Council deputy leader Mr John McDonnell, marched across and, at one stage, sat in the middle of a zebra crossing near Pump Lane as a demonstration against what they claim is the minister's delay in giving her decision on the Bypass inquiry report.

The protest lasted about 20 minutes. Police arrived soon after it ended but there was no trouble.

Scandalous

Mr Ginger Evans, a member of the local Hayes Labour Party's management committee, was among the protesters, who included Hillingdon Council Labour Party leader Cllr Peter Fagan.

He said: "Most of the people we talked to in their cars seemed to be sympathetic because they agreed that there should be a Hayes Bypass."

Mr John McDonnell, who is also the GLC member for Hayes and Harlington, said: "The demonstration was to draw people's attention to the fact that all we need is the go-ahead from the minister. The money is there and all the contacts are ready to go."

He added that it was scandalous that ministers had sat on the inquiry inspector's report for more than seven months and that every day that passed without a decision meant that local residents had to put up with the "din, dirt and danger" from heavy through traffic that should be on the bypass.

 
"There have been no delays preventing the go ahead from the GLC side.

Mr McDonnell added: "We have done everything we can to speed up this project and get the work started and now we want to hear the minister say 'Yes' to

the scheme so we can get on with the task of providing this valuable new road link."

A Transport Department spokesman said that the department and the Environment Department still had the inspector's report and that it was hoped that an announcement would be made as soon as possible.

NOTE

Photo

Left to right Eric "Ginger" Evans, unknown?, Chris Rogers, George Philpot, John McDonnell (sitting) Steve Clare and behind (unseen) the last poster on right one Michael Walker

Circa 1984

Hayes & Harlington Urban District Council Labour Council Candidates
Election Day Saturday 22 March 1930

East Ward
Frederick John Harcourt

West Ward
Patrick Egan, Farm Manager/bailiff, 10 Seventh Avenue
Ida Stone Gray, Married Women, 16 Mount Road

South Ward
Charles Henry Glenister, Railway Supervisor, 7 Halsway (Elected)
Anna Brigitta Greenhead ,Married Women, 7 Second Avenue (Elected)


Harlington
George Alexander Castleman, Taxi driver, Sharrow, Redmead Road
Henry Edwin Hathorn, Railway Servant, 66 Pinkwell Avenue
James Albert Taylor, Carpenter, 9 Clements Gardens
Walter Sidney Wanstall, Motor driver, 15 Redmead Road


NOTE

The new enlarged council now has 20 seats 9 Labour 9 Resident Association and 1 independent Mr F.W. Cox (Cranford ward) and 1 "Genuine Labour"

Joseph Hook, Engine Driver of 37 Longmead Road was elected in East Ward as a "Genuine Labour and Tenants candidate"

Patrick "Pat" Egan Secretary of Hayes Independent Labour party (ILP)
Fred Harcourt was also an active ILP member at Yeading

Mr C. H Kelf was also a key member of the Hayes Labour Party

Charles "Charlie" Viveash, Landlord, Victoria Inn at Harlington also candidate for Residents association - road named after him, many Labour councillors attended his funeral

Lawrence Worsnop Labour 1931General Election

Lawrence Worsnop 1931 General Election



Mr L.W. Worsnop was selected as the Perspective Labour Candidate for the Uxbridge Division (which included Hayes, Southall and Uxbridge on 13th December 1930 at Hayes Labour hall

He was selected from three nominations and Mr Worsnop
was the nomination of the Uxbridge Labour Party and the Uxbridge TGWU Electric branch

Lawrence Worsnop was born in Yorkshire and 20 years prior (circa 1920) had joined the Independent Labour Party and had become a member of the Yorkshire ILP Divisional Council later he moved to Portsmouth in the South of England and was the President of Portsmouth Trades & Labour Council

Worsnop was a resident student at Ruskin College, Oxford 1913-1914 Presently he is an official of a Trade Union, serving in London He is also a member of the Small holders Committee of Middlesex County Council and has a keen intrest in small holdings and allotments

At the last general election Mr Lawrence Worsnop was the Labour Parliamentary candidate for Guildford, Surrey

Mr P Gardner was his election agent for the 1931 General Election

Labour Central Committee rooms for the election where at Hayes Labour hall, Pump Lane, Hayes with committee rooms at Co-operative hall, Southall; B(R)onney's market Uxbridge; 31 High Street, Northwood; 1 Manor way, Ruislip and 28 High Street, Harefield

NOTE

The oppostion included "The Workers candidate" is Mr Reginal Bridgeman (is the former Labour Candidate at the previous General Election, removed by the Labour Party headquarters because of his work within the League Against Imperialism (and its perceived links with the Communist Party)


Mr Bridgman's Agent is Mr Tom Morris of 61a Townholme Crescent, Southall and the committee Room was at 1 Cambridge Road, Southall

Mr Bridgeman lived at Waxwell Farm Cottage, Pinner