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Lighthill Pat
Pat Lighthill Patricia Lighthill was a Clerkenwell barmaid from an Irish background who married a taxi driver. She was a key figure in the Clerkenwell branch of the Communist Party in the […]
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Devine Pat (Snr)
Pat Devine Article by Gloria Findlay in `Scottish Marxist’ 1998/1999 Pat Devine was born November 22nd 1898 in Motherwell, the eldest of eight children and four orphaned cousins, he left school at 13 to go down […]
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Devine Pat (Junior)
Pat Devine (Junior) Born in 1937, he was a YCL branch secretary in Ilford, north London in the 1950s. The child of communist parents, he recalls that his mother “would sing me revolutionary songs in […]
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Coates WP (Pat)
WP (Pat) Coates William (Bill) Peyton Coates was born in Kinsale, Ireland, in 1883. He started work on the railways in 1901 and, from 1903 was a member of the Railway Clerks Association and its […]
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McConnochie Pat
Pat McConnochie A veteran Ayrshire Communist since 1940 and a boilermaker by trade, McConnochie worked in shipyards around the country. He settled in the London area for a while before returning to Scotland, becoming heavily […]