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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…
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…
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…
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 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 Agricultural section union branch Frederick Lewington Died December 1930Died of WW1 injuries
Branch established 1924 Cambridgeshire Ely Cambridge
Barnstable Dockers (North Devon) December 1926TGWU Union
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…
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
The first know visit of the Clarion Van to Dronfield, Derbyshire
Thursday 16th June 1898
The Clarion van visited again in October 1909 and for four days in July 1910
Edward Carpenter lived close by at Totley (also an early anarchist Colony…Read more…
Ragged Trouser Philanthropist
Social Democratic Federation (SDF) cycling into town to spread the gospel of socialism
A tactic pioneered and used wildly by the Clarion Cycling Club
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“By retaining one’s childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable.”
George OrwellRead more…
Workers Union Organisers London 1914
George Dallas
Jack Watts
C W Gibson
W T Kelly
Tom MacNamaraRead more…
Founding of the Clarion Cycling Club first Branch Birmingham Clarion Cycling Club Monday 26th February 1894