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Freeman John
John Freeman John Freeman was born in 1934 between the Shankill and Crumlin Roads. In the late 50s, he found work in Australia before returning home to Northern Ireland in the following decade. He […]
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Ford Connie
Connie Ford Connie M. Ford was born in 1912 in south-east London, the youngest of three daughters, her sisters being Edith and Laura. Their father was a manufacturer of school scientific apparatus and, later, artillery […]
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Fraser Rhoda
A brief biography of Rhoda Fraser by Graham Stevenson additions and corrections welcomed: info@grahamstevenson.me.uk The first Women's Department in the Scottish district of the Communist Party was run by Agnes Maxwell in 1944. Rhoda […]
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Finley Larry
Larry Finley Larry Finley was born in Liverpool on 12th July 1909, the son of Edward James Finley and Annie Finley (nee Batch). His parents had lived in Salford but his father emigrated to Canada […]
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Follis Eddy
Eddy Follis Born in 1905, Follis travelled around America in the 1920s and 30s, riding the rails, acting in silent movies and ending up in New York in the depths of the recession. Returning to Britain, […]
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Fairburn Ron
Ron Fairburn Fairburn was born in Leeds in 1923. His father was a maintenance engineer at Leeds Steelworks and Ron's first job when he left school at fourteen was in a gentleman's outfitters. […]
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Fullarton Stevie
Stevie Fullarton Born in Glasgow's east end, he left school at 14 to provide for his family. His early employment included a spell scraping manure from the streets to sell on, although this was followed by […]
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Freeland George
George Freeland George Freeland was member of the Communist Party, who taught at Medway school, became headmaster of Alderman Richard Hallam school in Leicester. He was active in the campaign for comprehensive education in […]
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Forman Stanley
Stanley Forman Stanley Forman was born on Boxing Day 1921 in London. In 1936, at the age of fifteen, He was a member of the Labour League of Youth and its national secretary, Ted Willis […]
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Forman Hilda
Hilda Forman Born on the 1st January 1920 Hilda Sybil Forman was daughter to Harry and Rachel Davies. The middle child of Jewish Russian/Polish migrants, her impoverished upbringing worsened when her father, a tailor’s machinist, […]