At Heacham, on the north Norfolk coast, Robert Blatchford friend Harry Lowerison kept a co-educational school (Ruskin School, Station Road)
Outside the school grounds stood a small cottage which had been a shop. It had a big garden, and for thirty year…Read more…
Merrie England – Robert Blatchford
“A year before the issue of Merrie England, there were not 500 Socialists in Lancashire. A year after there were 50,000.”
Alex Thompson
Manchester ILP Wheelers established in 1892
Manchester ILP Wheelers established in 1892Swiftsure – Frank LeemingClarion Cycling Club
ILP Independent Labour PartyILP Scouts
Nelson Clarion House
Thomas Parker – Wellesbourne – Agicultural Labourers Union
Thomas Parker, Primitive Methodist lay preacher chaired the founding meeting of the National Agricultural Labourers Union (NALU ) meeting at Wellesbourne, Warwickshire 1872
Parker, Born ? Buried ?
Warwickshire History, vol. X, 2 ‘Thomas Parker’ pp. 47-…Read more…
LIEUTENANT WILLIAM TOZER – VENTNOR WW1 – BASRA
LIEUTENANTWILLIAM TOZERClerk Ventnor District Council – Isle of WeightNALGO (now Unison) memberRoyal Field Artillery1st/5th Hants Bty.Died 5 May 1916Kut-el-Amara – Prisoner of WarBuried
BASRA MEMORIAL IRAQWW1
ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY Friday, July 1…Read more…
English Republican Flag
“Choose for hope the sky serene, freedom Albion’s cliff’s so white,
And the eternal ocean’s green choose we for our native right:
Blue and white and green shall span England’s Flag republican.”
W. J. Linton, ‘The English Republic’, 1851.
Give u…Read more…
Harry Lowerison – Clarion – Darwinism – Socialism
Clarion Field Clubs Established 1895
Clarion Field Club
Harry Lowerison
Established 1895
Clarion Movement
Clarion Newspaper
Nature
Early socialist nature club
Harry Lowerison instructed that they were to be the collective stewards of the people’s heritage.
In rules devised by Har…Read more…
Eight Week Strike at Clarks – Street – Somerset
Clarion Field Clubs Established 1895
Clarion Field Clubs Established 1895
Harry Lowerison
As conductor of the Clarion field clubs, I am often asked to give advice as to how to start a field club. Well, in nearly every large town in England there are such clubs already in existence, and, …Read more…
THE KENT NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS’ UNION 1872
150th AnniversaryTHE KENT AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS’ UNION 1872
Meetings for the formation of branches of the above Union have been held during the past week at Hoath, Burham, Aylesford, and Frittenden. It is stated authority that the Union now numb…Read more…
Radical West Sussex – Labour Party
Chichester Labour Party established February 1919
Secretary: Alice Florence Eastland
Littlehampton Labour Party established 17th December 1918 Secretary: F.S. Mitchell (school teacher)
Bognor Labour Party established 25th Marc…Read more…
Victorian Latten Glass Slide – Rural Temperance
Edward Robertshaw Hartley – Clarion Van
Edward Robertshaw Hartley
(25 May 1855 – 18 January 1918)
Born: Bradford Buried: Bethel Chapel – Shelf – Calderdale – Yorkshire Wife: Mary Jane Thrippleton
“Fellowship Is Life”
Clarion Van speaker Clarion Cycling Clario…Read more…
Clarion Field Clubs Established 1895
Clarion Field ClubsEstablished in 1895 by Harry Lowerison 1863-1935 founder and organiser.
The Clarion Field Clubs were part of the wider Clarion Movements attempt to encourage a knowledge of nature and wildlife
Great Wilbraham TGWU Branch estb 1924 – Frederick Lewington
Great Wilbraham TGWU Agricultural section union branch Frederick Lewington Died December 1930Died of WW1 injuries
Branch established 1924 Cambridgeshire Ely Cambridge
Barnstable Dockers
Barnstable Dockers (North Devon) December 1926TGWU Union
Harry Lowerison – Clarion Field Club 1895 and Ruskin School House
Robert Blatchford – Clarion – Grave
Robert Blatchford’s – Editor of the Clarion newspaperFinal resting place – Grave
Horsham, West Sussex Hills Cemetery HorshamGrave PLOTM 016 Clarion
“FELLOWSHIP IS LIFE”
Clarion Van Clarion Cycling Clarion Choir Clarion Football, C…Read more…
Clarion Van at Epsom – Surrey – August 1907
Thomas Gavan Duffy was one of the first socialist speakers at Epsom during a visit from the famous Clarion Van August 1907 Duffy later MP Whitehaven
The Clarion “William Morris” Van visited Epsom again in June 1909