Monday, January 20, 2014

Churchill and the Spanish Civil War

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"I do not at all under-rate the severity of the ordeal which lies before us, but I believe our countrymen will show themselves capab...
Saturday, January 18, 2014

A Conservative Party MP support for the Blackshirts, Hitler & The Daily Mail

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Sir Thomas Moore (1886-1971) Ayr Burghs Conservative Party Member of Parliament 1925-1964 Participated in the British expeditionary Fo...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Daily Mail report of a German Nazi rally 1935

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Daily Mail report of a German Nazi rally 1935  "This corridor of broad chests, surmounted by fine open, clear cut faces, this e...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Yiewsley & West Drayton Co-operative Society - September 1893

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Yiewsley and West Drayton Co-operative Society ( Committee 1910 ?) President: H.J. Chilton Secretary: E.Cox Yiewsley and West Drayton C...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Trade Union Banners 1894 London

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Picture with caption trade union banners at the opening of Peckham Rye Park 1894 It would be interesting to check the local newspaper re...
Friday, January 10, 2014

1940 London Irish Discrimination

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Edward Hickey an Irishman living in Acton, West London in 1940 wrote to the Daily Worker 2 March 1940 in obvious anger at the way he (and m...

First Socialist Public Meeting in Hillingdon

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First Socialist Public Meeting in Hillingdon In July 1907 The London Standard announced that the London Clarion Scouts planned an “invas...

Southall & Hayes and the Spanish Civil War

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In July 1936 A.J. Murphy of Beresford Road, Southall wrote a very incisive letter to the Advertiser stating “The Spanish people are defe...

Hayes Labour attiude to WW1

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It is clear despite a significant minority of the Labour Party opposing World War One, The vast majority of the British Labour Party ended ...

Councillor Alfred Beck - Beck Theatre

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Alfred John Charles Beck 199 Station Road, Hayes Contracts manager, Leader of Hayes Urban District Council, member of the Labour Party f...

Hayes Labour Councillors

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Early Hayes Labour Association Councillors Henry Palmer (Bricklayer) 1911-1913 Oak Cottages, High Road Percy Osborne Langton ...
Friday, December 27, 2013

International Brigade Christmas Card

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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Councillor Woolatt

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 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 ...

Cricket 1970 - Anti Apartheid

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Anti Apartheid demonstration Hayes 1971

The Fake Daily Mail "Zinoviev letter" Foreigners & Lady Devonshire of Chatsworthvonshir's

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One elector in the rural Derbyshire village of Great Hucklow during the 1924 general election, an election dominated by the fake Dai...
Sunday, December 08, 2013

Victor Durand - The IWW, The Navy & The Incident of the "On The Knee, Dog"

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Victor Durand The IWW, The Navy and The Incident of the "On The Knee, Dog" On the 9th September 1935 Comrade Victor Durand...
Thursday, November 14, 2013

Daily Mail, Hitler and "safeguarding" Free Speech 1935

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The Daily Mail who printed the Zinoviev letter, who supported Hitler and Mosley, who opposed Jewish refugees entering Britain, unsurprisi...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

The First British Football Team To Play In Cuba

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  Grasmere Rovers were an English amateur team from Manchester (later playing in Glossop)  founded in  1961. Grasmere Rovers became ...
Monday, October 28, 2013

Hayes Cottage Hospital Occupation 25th October 1983 - 30th Anniversary

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Hayes Cottage Hospital Occupation 25th October 1983   30th Anniversary Hayes Cottage hospital, West London. Occupied 25t...