Air Gunner J. A. Clough (KIA) - The Stench of Nazism WW2

Labour MP Acton - Joseph Sparks

Joseph Sparks born Tiverton Devon 1901

Election agent Barnstaple 1923 and Taunton 1924

Moved to London and worked as a clerk at Paddington Station in the employ of the Great western Railway
Secretary of the South Kensington Labour Party. He entered local politics at Acton and was a member of both Acton Borough Council and Middlesex County Council. He was Mayor of Acton in 1957-58. he was also President of the London Region of the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR)

Paddington NUR

He made three unsuccessful attempts to enter the Commons, standing at Taunton in 1929 and Chelmsford in 1931 and Buckingham in 1935

Elected MP for Acton 1945 

Labour Party Conference Portsmouth 1909

Lord Snell Leader of the London County Council

Lord Snell

National Socialist Party Split from BSP - WW1 - 1916

28th September 1916
National Socialist Party split from the British Socialist Party

Farewell To William Rust

Farewell to William Rust Editor of the Daily Worker

Social Democratic Party Banner - Karl Marx

Social Democratic Party banner

Not Only
The Right To Work
But The
Right To Leisure

This SDP banner seems to have a portrait of Karl Marx in the centre, if so this would surely be the earliest representations of Marx on a British banner

National union of railwaymen Banner 1919

London Carmens Trade Union Banner 1912

London Carmens Trade Union banner
Bethnal Green Carmens Trade Union banner No 22

"All Workers Have A Right To Live Well"

National union of Railwaymen - Midlands Railway Banner

Big Red Bike Ride BRBR 1988

P&O Dispute Dover - Cardiff Seamen's banner

Cardiff branch of the National Union of Seamen banner (now RMT) on the P&O Dispute march Dover August 1988

Cardiff Boilermakers union banner unveiled September 1893

Labour - NHS Day 1988

Labour Party NHS Day at Alexandra Palace 3rd July 1988

(Sticker)

Election Night 1997

Park Royal (Acton) Vehicles Stewards Banner

Park Royal (Acton) Vehicles Shop Stewards Committee Banner
TUC Rally 21 February 1971 

DATA West London Division 1971

Draughtsmen's and Allied Technicians' Association (DATA)  West London banner on the TUC march 21st February 1971 against the Industrial Relations Bill


formally The Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen's (AESD), 

Later TASS, MSF,

NUR Rail Union Banners 1971 TUC "The Great March"

National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) now RMT banners on the TUC Industrial Relations Bill march "The Great March" 21 February 1971


National Union of Railwaymen banners
Glasgow National Union of Railwaymen
Euston National Union of Railwaymen
Earls Court National Union of Railwaymen
Paddington No2  National Union of Railwaymen
Chalk Farm National Union of Railwaymen

???  

TUC United Against Racialism March

TUC United Against Racialism march circa 1978/79

(Note Barbara Castle, Harriet Harman, Tessa Jowell, Jo Richardson

photo John Strrock

South Wales Miners Pageant - May Day 1939

South Wales Miners Federation May Day 
Pageant of South Wales

Orgnised by the South Wales Miners Federation in association with the Labour Research Department

1st May 1939

Atlas Lamps - 1924-1925 British Empire Exhibition - Wembley

GEC Atlas Lamps, 1924-1925  British Empire Exhibition - Wembley