Hayes Urban District Council 1929 Election

HAYES
URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL 1929

LABOUR CANDIDATES

Election Saturday 23rd March 1929



EAST WARD
Douglas Page, 40 Central Avenue, Hayes (Beltman Engineer) (ELECTED)
Edward George Hartley, 23 West Walk, Hayes (Railway Foreman) (ELECTED)


SOUTH WARD
George Marshall, 9 Hunters Grove (Railway Supervisor) (ELECTED)
Charles Harvey Kelf, 27 Drenon Square (Carpenter & Joiner) (ELECTED)

WEST WARD
Anna Begitta Greenhead, 7 Second Avenue, Hayes (Married Women)

Election Saturday 23rd March 1929

* George Marshall was the Chairman of Hayes UDC 1928-1929 (photo April 20th 1928 Advertiser & Gazette)


YIEWSLEY
LABOUR CANDIDATES 1929

Samuel Thorn, 12, Horton Road (Insurance Agent) (ELECTED)
Hubert Beaumont, "Crows Nest" Garden City (Lecturer)
George Varley, 18 St Stephen's Road (Railway Clerk)


NOTE
YIEWSLEY

Samuel Thorn was one of the pioneer's of the Labour Party in Yiewsley and Captain Hubert Beaumont would later be elected in 1934 as a Labour Councillor and Member of Parliament for Batley & Morley (and in 1929 Prospective Parliamentary candidate for Harrow, He had stood at Aldershot for Labour 1924 )

George Varley of 18 St Stephen's Road, Yiewsley was a well known Yiewsley Labour councillor elected in 1932, born in London, He was employed as railway clerk on the Great Western Railway. He came to Yiewsley in 1921 and was one of the youngest ever Justices of the Peace aged under 40. A Keen supporter of Allotments and Swimming

UXBRIDGE 1929
LABOUR CANDIDATES

HILLINGDON WEST
Mrs Sarah Ann Dubberley, 9, Waterloo Road, Uxbridge (Married Women) (ELECTED)
Richard Thomas Dubberley, 9 Waterloo Road, Uxbridge (Railway Foreman)
Cecil Robert Bond, 36 Cowley Mill Road (Electrician)
Stanley Walter Morgan, "Somercot" Harefield Road (Clerk)
Charles Oughton, Manor Waye Uxbridge (Stores Clerk)
Charles James Peer, Elmdene, Milton Road, Ickenham (Journalist)



NOTES
* Mrs Sarah Ann Dubberley was the first Labour councillor on the new Uxbridge Urban District Council (Mrs Dubberley had been elected as an Uxbridge Board of Guardian's in 1925)

The local Advertsier & Gazette stated "Labour was only successful in getting one member returned - Mrs Dubberley who now earns her reward for much brave perseverance, for Hillingdon West."


* Cecil Bond is "Dickie" Bond and according to the Advertise & Gazette was standing as a Labour candidate

*Charles Peer (Journalist) of Ickenham, had previously lived at Harrow Weald and had along with Ramsay MacDonald (later Prime Minister) been the founder of Harrow Independent lLbour Party (ILP) branch in the late 1890's. The meeting was held over tea at Hillcrest, Harrow View at the invitation of Mr Harry Phillips who was the endeavouring to establish a branch of the Independent Labour Party in Harrow.

HILLINGDON EAST

Frederick William Carter, "Willow Vale" Hillingdon Heath (Secretary)
William Henry Catherwood, 1 Mirabella Cottages, Gutteridge Street, (Process Engineer)
Eileen Muriel Courtenay Vulliamy, Elm Tree Cottage, Sweetcroft Lane, (Married Woman)

UXBRIDGE WARD
Ethel Morgan "Somercot" Harefield Road, Uxbridge (Married Woman)
Albert Edwin Taylor, 10 Montague Road, Uxbridge (Railwayman)
Frederick Waite, 47 Manor Way Uxbridge (Printer)

COWLEY WARD
Thomas House, Myrtle Cottage, High Street, Cowley (Railwayman)
Frank Tomlinson, School house, High Street Cowley (Printer)

ICKENHAM WARD
Edgar Hawkins Davey, Milton Cottage, High Street, Ickenham (Electrical worker)
James William Hall, 11 Glebe Avenue, Ickenham (Railway Booking Clerk)


RUISLIP 1929
LABOUR CANDIDATES

RUISLIP WARD
Harry King, 20 Manor Way, Ruislip (Insurance Agent)

*Mr Haley was Ruislip Labour Party Chairman and Mr F.W. Roques Ruislip Labour Party Secretary

*Mr Catford, Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers (ASW) organiser was prominent member of Ruislip Labour Party- This was period of soaring unemployment, especially amongst those in the building trade.



A NEW LABOUR NEWSLETTER 1929

A Labour organ for the Uxbridge Division

A monthly journal has been published by the Uxbridge Divisional Labour party at one penny per copy.

In the March 1929 issue there appeared an articles by Reginald Bridgeman the Prospective Labour candidate and by Councillor Ernest Hamblin of Southall on the Housing problem and notes and news from the districts in the constituency. Messages of success printed from Mr Ben Tillett and Mr Ramsay MacDonald

Ramsay MacDonald wrote :-
"I am glad to hear that good work is being done in the Uxbridge on behalf of the Labour party and its principles.

Your neighbourhood will not be an easy one to move, but a combination of labour experience and intellectual keenness in everything that concerns the honour and well being of the country cannot be always resisted even by London outskirts.

The Labour appeals to all sorts and conditions of people who really feel that the community is of importance and that only in so far as it is active and intellectual can there be individual liberty, enterprise or well being.

The appeal that the Tory party makes is that whoever happens to have ought to have a chance of having more, and that the great masses should be perfectly well content at the end of their days they have managed to keep body and soul together.

I wish the Labour party well in Uxbridge and hope that your new venture in journalism will be thoroughly successful"

Uxbridge Divisonal Labour Party Newsletter March 1929

HARMONDSWORTH LABOUR PARTY ESTABLISHED 1927

Harmondsworth branch of the Labour Party was established in 1927 as party of the Spelthorne Divisional Labour Party with Mr L.M. Benen-Stock as Secretary who stated "Felt sure that the new party (Harmondsworth) would soon rank as one of the finest in the Spethorne Division"

Mr John Guild, Spelthorne Labour Party Divisional Chairman and Mr Lovett was Divisional Secretary. Local councillor's stated that it was the view of many local Labour councillor's that "a great obstacle in the area ti the election of labour members was the fact that such councils held their meetings during the day time, therefore, debarring the ordinary worker from attending".

1977: L.M. Benen-Stock OBE, BSc made Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Spelthorne.

NORTHWOOD LABOUR PARTY 1928

Fenner Brockway, Independent Labour Party (ILP) spoke in April 1928 to Northwood branch of the Labour Party the meeting held at Brewsters rooms, Northwood.

Secretary of Harrow Trades Union Council 1928 was Mr G. Hales

Mr F.G. Temple of the National Union of Railwayman (NUR) (Labour candidate for Mid Bucks)

George Belt - Daily Herald

SLOUGH 1926
LABOUR CANDIDATES

Kate Lydia Mapstone, 32 Montague Road (Married Woman)
Edith Liza Mitchel,l 15 Stoke Poges Lane (Married woman)
Lillian Maud 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 Clerk0

*William Templeman was already a sitting Labour councillor in Slough
*Kate Mapstone husband William Mapstone had been elected as a Labour Councillor in 1924


WEST MIDDLESEX BOARD OF GUARDIANS COMMITTEE 1930
ALL MEMBERS - PARTY NOT KNOWN

Acton
Mr R.J. Hewitt; Mr J.H. Brown; Mr A.G. Keen; Mr R. Yarwood

Ealing -
Mr H. M. Sayers, 44 Warwick Road, Ealing
Mrs Taylor, Hilcrest, Grove Ave, Hanwell
Mr C.R. Davies, 12 Kings Ave, Greenford
Mr W.J. Skinner Cox, 27 Sutherland Rd, Ealing
Mr J. Smith, 7 Golden Manor, Hanwell
Mr H. Talfer, Wilcox, Oldfield, Greenford

Hayes
Mr C. Kelf, 27 Drenon Square, Hayes

Ruislip & Northwood
Mrs G. Smedley, Avon Grange Church, St Ruislip

Southall - Norwood
Mrs I. M. Waddington, 26 Osterley Park Road, Southall

Southall
Mr W. Garrod, 18 Stratford Rd, Southall

Uxbridge
Mr G.J. Crook, 62 High St, Uxbridge
Mrs N.B. Hinkley, 133 High Street, Uxbridge

Yiewsley & West Drayton
Mr T. Hancock, 81 (or 31) Otterfield Rd, Yiewsley

also appointed from Middx County Council
Mrs Anna Begitta Greenhead, 7, Second Avenue, Hayes
and others




YIEWSLEY & WEST DRAYTON LABOUR HEADQUARTERS 1937

In 1937 it was reported in the local newspaper that Yiewsley & West Drayton Labour Party had established a fund to secure a new home as the present one was under threat by the widening of Colham Bridge - It was reported that "It seems land has already been acquired for this purpose"

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

Sarah Dubberley - Uxbridge Labour Mayor 1958

Councillor Mrs Sarah Dubberley
Labour Mayor 1958

Elected Labour Mayor of Uxbridge Tuesday 20th May 1958
(Photo L-R Cllr Ken Marlow, Cllr Sarah Dubberley and Middx County Councillor F.S, Tate - Labour Party Agent)

Sarah Ann Dubberley has the great distinction of being the first elected Labour Uxbridge Mayor in 1958 at the age of 71.

She was first elected to the Uxbridge Board of Guardian's in 1925 and later as a Labour Councilor for Hillingdon West to Uxbridge council in 1929, and in 1946 had been elected Chairman of the Housing Committe.Mrs Dubberley was very heavily involved in other community organisations within Uxbridge.

Mrs S.A. Dubberley worked for the National Savings movement for 40 years, served of Uxbridge United Charities for 36 years, was member of Uxbridge Welfare Council for 2 years and member of Uxbridge Joint Hospital Board for 18 years.

She had in 1956 been appointed to the Advisory Council of the National Assistance Board.

Mrs Dubberley husband Richard Thomas Dubberley was a retired railway worker and an local official of the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR). They had celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1956.

They have two daughters Florence who was married and lived in Slough and May who lived with her parents. May was employed in a tailors shop in Uxbridge in Uxbridge High Street.

Mrs Sarah Dubbley and her family lived at 9 Waterloo Road, Uxbridge from about 1918, Mrs Dubberley stated "its our home and I hope to live the rest of my life there"

On the day Councillor Sarah Dubberley was elected Mayor Tuesday 20th May 1958 , she stated " I feel a very proud women tonight to think that I am the first Labour Mayor of Uxbridge, I do sincerely thank you for the honour you have conferred upon me and I shall try to carry out my civic duties with pride as I always have done since I have been on the council".

Her election was greeted with great applause from the councillors and public present.

Cllr S.A.Dubberley appointed Welshman and Blind Union Organiser, Alderman Tom Parker as her Deputy Mayor of Uxbridge.

In the following year Mrs Dubberley was involved in the early Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) march from Uxbridge to Yiewsley in April 1958. CND was launched with a massive public meeting in London in February 1958. Shortly afterwards at Easter the first Aldermaston March was held, which went through Uxbridge and Hayes.

Dickie Bond labelled the Dubberley's as both great assets to the Labour Movement in Uxbridge, he also recalled that their daughter May was still living local in the nineteen eighties, and was a regular contributor to the Miners welfare during the 1984-85 strike.

LABOUR CANDIDATES 1924
IN WEST MIDDLESEX ELECTIONS


HAYES UDC 1924
Frederick Henry Conway, 66 East Avenue, Hayes (Wood Worker) (E)
Robert John Leach, 1 Clarevillas, Clarendon Road, Hayes, (Engineer) (E)
Ernest Kirby Harding, Old Post Office, Station Road (Seedman/Corn dealer)

* Frederick Henry Conway and Robert John Leach for Labour are elected with increased majorities in East and South Ward, however W.W.Westacott slips in West ward beating Ernest Kirby Harding.

* In 1924 Labour lose control of Hayes UDC, for the first time since 1914 (ten years)

UXBRIDGE UDC 1924
Mrs Sarah Ann Dubberley, 9 Waterloo Road, Uxbridge ( active Welfare & Maternity clinic)
Frank Price 37 Walford Road, Uxbridge (Sanitary Engineer and Captain Uxbridge FC)
John W Brooks, 40 Walford Road (Civil Servant) (prominent Uxbridge C & AC cyclist)
Joseph William Hart, Bungalow, Hawtree Road, (Civil Servant)


YIEWSLEY 1924
Harry Ashby, 63 Ernest Road, Yiewsley (Railway Clerk)
Samuel Thorn, 12 Horton Road, Yiewsley, (Assurance Agent)
Wilfred Roberts, 47 Otterfield Road, Yiewsley (Railway Clerk)

HARROW 1924
Sarah Rebecca Ludbrook, 23 Sumner Road, Harrow
*Sarah Rebecca Ludbrook (Labour) First woman of any Party to stand for Harrow Council

SLOUGH 1924
William Mapstone, 82 Montague Road, Slough
Miss Lilian Maud Whiley, 68 Albert Road, Slough (School Teacher)
Arthur John Frenchum 32 Gillint Road, Slough (Railway Time Keeper)

* Only Mapstone is elected for Labour the National Citizens Union is Labours opposition

WEALDSTONE 1924
Sydney Bleaney, 58 Graham Road, (Railway Carman)
Edward Joseph Hurley, 48 (or 18) Canning Road (Lithographic Printer)

* Local Wealdstone Labour Party establsihed 1924

NOTES:

* In 1924 Labour lost control of Hayes UDC for the first time since 1914 (ten years)

* Robert William Gunton stated that he first came to Hayes eleven years ago (1913) the roads were so bad that the Government stamp factory provided electric lanterns to staff to see their way to the station. He stated that one of the first things the first Labour Council had done in 1914 was to appoint a sanitary inspector to "compel landlords to put their houses in a proper state of repairs". Mr Gunton spoke with pride of the housing scheme and their acquisition of the town Hall (Barra Hall) and Park.

Gunton states "The Labour Party was generally associated by the reactionary press with high rates, well the rates in Hayes did not happen to have high rates, they were the lowest in West Middlesex, due possibly to having such large factories with a large ratable value"

It was reported that Mr R.W. Gunton was not standing as he was soon to move to Watford

Ernest Kirby Harding
"is an enterprising local tradesman, well known in Labour circles as the Vice President of Uxbridge Divisional Labour Party. Who came into the limelight in the debate at Hayes with Commander Burney Conservative MP on the laters public funding for Imperial airship scheme (Hayes Parish Hall, Novemeber 1923)

Robert John Leach was certainly one of the most prominent Labour Councillors during this period he stated that he had secured "£3 a week (minimum) wage and one weeks paid holiday"


Frederick Conway stated
"The Municipal Reform (Conservatives) were making an extra special attempt to obtain a majority on the council because they will never get another chance"......"If we (Labour) lose one seat we shall be on the wrong side of the hedge". However, it was noted that Municipal Reform had fallen out amongst themselves

Hayes Labour Party had been promised the support of Dr Somerville Hastings MP, who seems to have maintained close links with the Hayes Labour Party over many years

* The Labour Party stood on a platform of securing the Underground to Hayes, the other issue was a Labour Exchange in Hayes, presently young unemployed Hayes men had to travel to Uxbridge daily to sign on (Picture right Douglas Page)

Mr G.A. Manley was the Hayes Labour Party Chairman

John Brooks (Uxbridge Labour Party was active in the Uxbridge Cycling & Athletics Club, a Mr W. H. Gough being Secretary. The other Cycling club was the Western Road which meet at the De Burgh Arms where from 1924 it had a club room

In May 1924 Councillor Ambrose Simpson was elected Chairman of Hayes UDC he was a retired Acting Sargent in the Metropolitan Police, which he joined in 1890 retiring in 1915 having served 19 years in Southall and 5 years in Hayes