Jack and Alice Ivy Loveman (Jones) and Jimmy Jones Born of parents who were both long-term members of the Social Democratic Federation, Alice and Jimmy Jones were thus brought up in a firmly socialist […]
Jimmy Barzey Jimmy Barzey was born on the small Caribbean island of Montserrat in around 1940. He joined the Communist Party and became a well-known activist on his home patch in Southall, West London, becoming branch […]
Jimmy R Jump Born on 24th August 1916 as James R Jump, the young Jimmy Jump went to Wallasey Grammar School on the Wirral. After school he became a reporter on the Wallasey Chronicle, […]
Jim Hyndman James Hyndman was born on the 4th September 1911 at 175 Queen St, Govan, Glasgow. His parents, Robert Hyndman from Ardstraw and Matilda Boggs from Legfordrum, were married in Newtownstewart and moved […]
J R Gilmore James R Gilmore was born in Cheapside, Birmingham, on March 16th 1914 to working class parents, his father being a wood-working machinist. The sixth child of nine, he went to an […]
Jimmy Dowd Born in 1921 (by his own account), Dowd was demobbed early in the war and became heavily politicised when he made engine parts for aeroplanes in the war at Ford’s Barton Bridge, Manchester, […]
Jimmy Airlie Jimmy Airlie was born on November 10th 1936, in Renfrew, the son of a boilermaker. He served his apprenticeship as a fitter with Simon and Lobnitz, a shipyard on Clydeside. After his National […]
Jimmy Reid Born in 1932 in Govan, Reid joined the Young Communist League aged 16 and later became its national secretary. Later, he was a Clydebank councillor for many years until he became the Scottish […]
Cllr Jimmy Ancrum Jim Ancrum was born in Felling-on-Tyne, in County Durham, England, in 1898. Becoming a noted orator and soapbox performer, he would end up as as a legendary figure in the north-east […]
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