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 […]
David Ivon Jones D I Jones was born in 1883 in Aberystwyth, Wales. Jones was orphaned as a young child and brought up by his grandparents, but his grandmother also died when he was […]
Jack Jones Not to be confused with his namesake, the leader of the T&G, Jack Jones was briefly a Communist in the Welsh mining valleys and always a chameleon type figure in the political sphere […]
Mervyn Jones One of four children, Mervyn Jones was born 27th February 1922in Londonto a comfortable upbringing. His father was Ernest Jones, the chief administrator, biographer, and chief supporter of Sigmund Freud. He was instrumental […]
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 […]
Wally Jones Jones grew up in Stepney, roaming the back streets and alleys of Wapping. He became a London docker at the Royal Docks, rising to become Chairman of the London Dockers’ Liaison committee. He […]
Walter Jones (Cllr) Walter Jones won a seat as a councillor as a Communist Party candidate in Risca, a small town that is today part of the Newport conurbation, lying at the south-eastern edge of […]
Bridget Jones (née Bridget McMahon) As her uncle John Kane (known to the rest of the world as Jock and a significant leader first of Armthorpe miners and then of the Yorkshire NUM […]
Arthur Jones Arthur Lewis Jones was born in Ferndale, Rhondda, in 1916. A committed Communist and trade unionist all his adult life, he moved to Merthyr at the outbreak of the Second World War to […]
Bill Jones A Liverpool building worke,r Bill Jones was unfailingly loyal to his family, his class and his party. He died aged 80 after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. A joiner, he served his union […]
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