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Macleod Alison
Alison Macleod Alison Macleod, TV critic for the Daily Worker was born 12 April 1920. She was the daughter of Winifred Fairfield, one of three suffragette sisters (Dr Letitia Fairfield and Cicily Isabel Fairfield – […]
Month: January 2010
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Browne Joan Dillon
Joan Dillon Browne Joan Dillon was born on 4th July 1912 in Stockport and attended the nearby Fylde Lodge school. Then came Somerville College, Oxford, where she graduated in history and trained as a secondary […]
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Boulton Emmy
Emmy Boulton Emmeline Boulton was born in Openshaw, Manchester, to James, an engineer, and Emily, a weaver. Emmy’s mother was to become a member of the Communist Party. No doubt this had an impact on […]
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Baines Harry
Harry Baines Frederick Harry Baines was born in Manchester on 19th June 1910. He attended a local junior art school from the age of 14 and, from 1930 to 1934, Manchester School of Art, where […]
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Brutton Kaye
Kaye M Brutton was a Communist councillor in Wolverhampton, elected in particular circumstances. He had been a popular and elected Labour councillor, who had been a Daily Worker supporter at least since 1940. Having finally […]
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Blackburn Jack
Jack Blackburn The branch secretary of the local Communist Party branch in the late 1940s, Blackburn had been secretary for some time, despite the fact that he held the responsible post of District Architect for […]
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Brooks Alan
Alan Brooks Alan Brooks was born in Bristol on 18th May 1940 the child of a Bristol GP who emigrated with his family to Southern Rhodesia when he himself was only seven year old. He […]
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Bates (Sandford) Winifred
Winifred Bates (Sandford) Winifred was born in 1898 in London of parents who were both firm left-wing Labour Party supporters. By the time she had become a teacher in the east end of London in […]