Hanwell & Southall Social Democratic Federation

Hanwell & Southall Social Democratic Federation

Established November 1903

Southall & Hanwell UDC Council results 1913

Southall & Hanwell UDC

Election Results

 1913

ILP - Independent Labour Party

BSP - British Socialist Party

Lab - Labour

Southall British Socialist Party established February 1912

C. J. Batchelor - BSP Secretary - 58 Hamboro Road

1913 Bradley elected for the BSP in Hanwell - West ward

The BSP later formed the backbone of the Communist Party of Great Britain formed in 1920

 

Margaret McMillan - ILP School Meals & Nursery Education

 

COHSE Hillingdon Banner

 

COHSE Hillingdon banner at Hammersmith Hospital circa 1983

Gramophone Works - EMI - Hayes

 

Independent Labour Party (ILP)

5th February 1933 against Unemployment

Woolwich ILP Labour Party

Fred Hammill Born Leeds

(4 May 1856 - 8 July 1901) 

Helped establish the Woolwich Independent Labour Party ILP in 1894, with Robert Banner Fabian & ILP First ILP parliamentary candidate in Newcastle

Ran a pub "The Swan" at Topcliffe 

Elected Thirsk Rural Council 1901

Barbara Castle - Equal Pay

 

1933 Labour Party Membership

 Labour Party Membership 1933

Largest Labour Party membership by Constituencies

Woolwich 5,503 Romford 3,806 Carlisle 3,589 Newport (Wales) 3,356 Reading 3,327 Nelson & Colne 3,000 Deptford 3,000

19 Constituencies over 2,000, incl

Whitehaven

Cleveland

E. Bristol

Stalybridge & Hyde

Caerphilly

Llandaff & Barry

Oldham

Ilford

Greenwich,

East Ham

Bootle

East Lewisham

South Popular

Southampton

Wallsend

Darlington

Stockton on Tees

Norwich

Senghenydd Mining Disaster 439 Killed - 14 October 1913

Senghenydd Mining Disaster (South Wales) - 14 October 1913
The explosion killed 439 miners and a rescuer, is still the worst mining disaster in the United Kingdom

Robert Watson - Picket Killed 18th January 1979

Robert Watson was carrying out lawful union picketing duty at Aberdeen docks with his work mates on the 18th January 1979 , when he was struck and killed by a speeding non union lorry driver.

As far as can be be researched, Robert Watson was the only reported death during the Winter of Discontent strikes of 1979

Media hostility, copycat reporting and an unwillingness to move from an anti union narrative, means that to this day his tragic death goes unmentioned by those commenting on the Winter of Discontent strike.

The only fatality during the "Winter of Discontent" despite the media hysteria was a trade unionists going about his lawful right to strike for a living wage.

Remember Robert Watson

Marilyn Robeson

Marilyn Robeson (Paul Robeson's daughter-in law)
at Marx Memorial Library 2016

London County Council - Steam Boat

Railway Strike 1911 - Hackney Marshes

London Bus V Tram 1914

George Formby - Fighting Fascism

George Formby Fighting Fascism During WW2


"It's Turned Out Nice Again"

(Formby also refused to play segregated audiences during a tour of South Africa and was finally expelled from South Africa after police broke down his hotel room and escorted him to the Airport)

Yank Tanks - Trains of US Military in UK during WW2

American built "Yank tanks" trains at Southampton Docks
used to move around US Army equipment and soldiers during WW2

Dolphins in the Thames 1890

Dolphins in the Thames at Chelsea May 1890

 

Mary Robinson - Presidential Campiagn

London County Council - Eveline Mary Lowe

Eveline Mary Lowe (Bermondsey) 
Labour Chairman of the London County Council 1939-1940