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Robson Peter
Peter Robson Robson worked at the Lots Road Power station in Fulham and was a member of the ETU electricians union’s West Supply branch and a delegate from it to Fulham TUC. A […]
Month: January 2011
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Kitson Dave
David Kitson Born Ian David Kitson on 25th August 1919, he studied mechanical engineering at Howard College, Durban, graduating in 1942. Kitson served as a sapper with the South African army on foreign tours […]
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Rowlands Ted
Ted Rowlands An engineering worker and shop steward for the AEU, Rowlands was an active Communist Party member in Newcastle. He stood as the Communist candidate for a Newcastle Council by-election in St. […]
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Keyworth Flo
Flo Keyworth Florence Keyworth, who worked for a marathon 42 years as a highly skilled journalist on the Morning Star and its predecessor the Daily Worker, died aged 91 in 2010. She was a superb […]
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Devine Frieda
Frieda Devine Frieda Maria Truhar was born on August 4th 1911 in Pittsburgh to a Croatian immigrant couple of Catholic background who had become firm socialists, her father being a steel worker. She […]
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Liddiard Frank
Frank Liddiard Liddiard was born on the 8th of August 1922 and, in his youth, lived at Egham, a small place on the River Thames, next to Runnymede. His father worked on the Southern […]
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Papaioannou Ezekias
Ezekias Papaioannou Born on October 8th 1908 in the village of Kellaki, Limassol District, in Cyprus, Papaioannou worked as a miner, and then as a manual worker in the port of Piraeus. He […]
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Lighthill Pat
Pat Lighthill Patricia Lighthill was a Clerkenwell barmaid from an Irish background who married a taxi driver. She was a key figure in the Clerkenwell branch of the Communist Party in the […]
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Lyons Danny
Danny Lyons The long-term London docker and Communist Party activist, was a member of the non-official Port London Dockworkers Liaison Committee. Writing in the Communist Party’s weekly journal, `Comment’, in 1966 on planned changes […]