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Geddes Alec & Effie Jones (nee Geddes)
Alec and Effie Geddes (Jones) Born in 1888 in Wick, where he worked as a fish smoker from a young age, Alexander (sometimes Alec, or Alex) Geddes was an ASE (AEU) activist in Greenock’s Workers […]
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Clark Alec (Aberdeen)
Alec Clark (Aberdeen) Alec Clark was born on 22nd July 1922 in Virginia Street, Aberdeen. The second eldest child, he came from a large family of thirteen children, although four of these died young. The […]
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Franks Alec
Alec Franks Alec Franks was active in the Labour movement before the First World War. He later became Chairman of the North London Jewish Defence League and, along with his wife, Clara, was a long […]
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Robson Alec `Spike’
Alec `Spike’ Robson Robson was born in 1895, one of 11 children, to a mining family. He began himself in the Gambois pit, near Blyth, aged only 11 years, He was a trapper boy, regulating […]
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Waterman Alec and Ray
Alec and Ray Waterman (Entry from Pete Waterman.) My father, Alec Waterman (as he eventually came to call himself) was born with the surname Nasibirski in Blonie, outside Warsaw, 1907. Nasibirski, I was given to […]
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Miller Alec
Alec Miller Born in Stepney, in the east end of London, Miller trained to be a signwriter, a trade that enabled him to design and produce many posters and banners. He joined the Young Communist […]