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Bower Hetty
Hetty Bower Hetty was born in 1905 into a Dalston, east London, Jewish family of Rimel, along with sisters Pearl and Anita. The oldest sister, Pearl, who used to go secretly to suffragette meetings […]
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Boyle Philip
Philip Boyle Boyle was born on the 5th October 1903 in Calhane, Ireland. He was a carpenter by trade. Having served in the IRA from 1919, he was imprisoned, in 1920-1; renewing his […]
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Blevin John
John Blevin My brother, John, was born in Liverpool in 1954, and attended St Edwards College in the city before working for Liverpool City Council from 1972 to 1982. Whilst working for Liverpool’s Parks and […]
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Browne Stella
Frances Worsley Stella Browne was born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on 9th May 1880. She obtained a degree in modern history at Somerville College, the University of Oxford, in 1902 anf then became […]
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Borders Elsy and Jim
Else and Jim Borders Elsy Borders, in particular, features strongly in the history of the role of the Communist Party in the housing campaigns of the 1930s. Born around 1900, Elsy Florence Eva was the […]