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Baecker Angela
Angela Baecker Born on 8th October 1946 as Angela Stolz, Baecker came from Hamburg and was a member of the German Communist Party (DKP). When she moved to Nottingham in 1978, she joined the British […]
Month: February 2012
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Coleman Tom
Tom Coleman In 1935, Tom Coleman of Dalefield Avenue, Normanton, was fined £1:13s at the West Riding Police Court at Wakefield for harbouring an illicit still. The item made the news since he […]
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Berryman Blanche
Blanche Berryman Blanche (nee Dowsett) from East Sheen became educated through a scholarship. She went on to King’s College London. There she met Jack, her husband of 68 years, and both became first Communists and […]
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Buchan (Kent) Janey
Janey Buchan Jane O’Neil Kent was born in Glasgow on 30th April 1926. Her father, Joseph Kent, was a shipyard worker who managed to find work as a tram driver when the yards were closed. […]
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Burfield Diana
Diana was born in Milford on Sea, Hampshire, then brought up in Lee, South London, and went to the John Roan school in Greenwich. She was evacuated from there, and ended her schooldays at Harrow […]