No Picture
O

Owen Jack

Jack Owen Jack Owen was born in 1887 and started work, aged 14. He would later write that: “since a kid of 14 years of age, when I put on dungarees and proudly displayed a […]

No Picture
R

Robertson Archie

Archie Robertson Archibald Harold Mann Robertson was born in 1886, the son of a bishop. He was educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, gaining the distinction of winning a first in philosophy and passing into […]

No Picture
J

Johnson Charley

Charley Johnson This piece is by Charlie Johnson himself I was born in a little terraced house at 39, Elbow Street, Old Hill, Staffordshire, on 19th July 1924 the youngest of four. One died in infancy […]

No Picture
R

Robinson Ron

Ron Robinson Born in 1932, Robinson was a member of the Jersey Communist Party during the 1950s and 1960s.   He was a plasterer and member of the Transport & General Workers Union. As the […]

No Picture
J

Jones Walter (Cllr)

Walter Jones (Cllr) Walter Jones won a seat as a councillor as a Communist Party candidate in Risca, a small town that is today part of the Newport conurbation, lying at the south-eastern edge of […]

No Picture
E

Evans John

John Evans Evans was a member of the Communist Party in Battersea and chair of the highly vigorous Battersea Tenants’ Association. This even made a film in 1961, entitled “H only for House”, a reference […]

No Picture
J

Jacques Martin

Martin Jacques Martin Jacques was born in October 1945 in Coventry and raised there by Communist Party parents. He joined the Young Communist League Communist Party in 1961 when he was still just 15 and […]

No Picture
R

Russell Ralph

 Ralph Russell Ralph Russell was born on 21st May 1918 in Hammerton in North Yorkshire. He joined the Communist Party at the age of 16, when he was a scholarship boy at Chigwell School in […]

No Picture
E

Edwards Jack

Jack Edwards   Born in Liverpool on 3 January 1914 into a family of socialists, Jack worked as a motor mechanic after leaving school and, as a member of the Young Communist League, was on […]