Nelson Clarion House
Still open and now going from strength to strength
Clarion House,
Jinney Lane, Newchurch-in-Pendle Lancashire BB12 9LL
Ordnance SurveyLANDRANGER 1:50 000 Series, Sheet 103 OUTDOOR LEISURE 1:25 000 Series, Map 21N…Read more…
Bournemouth Co-op Society Education Committee
Bournemouth Co-operative Society Education Committee StandRead more…
Allotments – Independent Labour Party ILP
Back To the Land
Allotments
Independent Labour Party ILPRead more…
National Union of Agricultural Workers – Benevolent Fund
National Union of Agricultural Workers
Benevolent FundRead more…
300 Raindeer killed by lightning
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/more-than-300-reindeer-killed-by-lightning-strike-in-freak-disaster-a3331741.htmlRead more…
The Rural Labourers’ League,
The Rural Labourers’ League, Established 12 May 1888
Campaigned for Land Reform, tariffs on imported food to support the rural economy
Key Jesse Collings (Liberal MP)
Journal – Rural WorldRead more…
Harry Pollitt – Rural Voters 1938
Jack Shingfield – Workers Union
Jack Shingfield
Workers Union – Eastern Counties
William John Shingfield (known as Jack) was the son of an agricultural labourer and member of Joseph Arch’s Agricultural labourers union in Suffolk.
Shingfield became a footman, but his skills in or…Read more…
Jack Shingfield – Workers Union
Jack Shingfield
Workers Union – Eastern Counties
William John Shingfield (known as Jack) was the son of an agricultural labourer and member of Joseph Arch’s Agricultural labourers union in Suffolk.
Shingfield became a footman, but his skills in or…Read more…
Miss Florence Saward – Workers Union
Florence Saward (centre of picture) was the daughter of an agricultural labourer from Braintree, Essex
Saward became a Workers Union organiser in Essex and Suffolk around 1913 and as the Chelmsford Chronicle stated (10 December 1938) “came to…Read more…
FROM SHEPHERDESS TO REVOLUTIONARY
FROM SHEPHERDESS TO REVOLUTIONARY
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JEANNE LABOURBE
In the late 19th century the French countryside faced big changes. For centuries those who worked the land had lived in deep poverty, doing back-breaking work; they lived in small…Read more…
National Union of Agricultural Workers banner TUC Great March 1971
Dorset Union of Agricultural Workers 1949
Tolpuddle Rally Sports Day 1949
Tolpuddle Rally Sports Day 16th July 1949Read more…
“The boy’s grave” – Kentford Suffolk
“The Boy’s Grave”
1949 Report
During the past 12 months or so I have twice a week had to travel by road between Cambridge and Newmarket.
But not until I had a sport of car trouble the other day and was forced to store and I noticed the lonely g…Read more…
Birthplace of socialist Wales – First SDF Branch
First Social Democratic Party branch in Wales – The village of Waunafon, between the towns of Brynmawr, BlaenavonRead more…
Sudbury Social Democratic Federation – Suffolk 1890
Socialism came to rural towns and villages by numerous routes, the famous Clarion vans, The non-conformists, the trade unions, and in the case of Sudbury in Suffolk, via the silk weavers, who’s factory owners had moved their premises out of London to&n…Read more…
Harry Gillingham – Mapperton – Dorset – Farmworker – Honoured 1958
Harry Gillingham born July 1878 at Okeford Fitzpaine he left school at the age of 11 to earn 2 shillings and 6 pence a week on the land, there was no overtime, no Saturday half day and no paid holiday
He moved to Mappleton in 1906 and worked on the sam…Read more…