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Hollamby Ted
Ted Hollamby Born Edward Hollamby in 1921 in Hammersmith, where his father was a police constable, Ted studied architecture at the Hammersmith School of Arts and Crafts in the 1930s. Influenced by one of his favourite […]
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Rowlands Ted
Ted Rowlands An engineering worker and shop steward for the AEU, Rowlands was an active Communist Party member in Newcastle. He stood as the Communist candidate for a Newcastle Council by-election in St. […]
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Ainley Ted
Ted Ainley Secretary of the Communist Party’s cultural committee in 1960s, he was for many years editor of the Party’s weekly journal World News (later called Comment). Ted Ainley was born in Manchester of a […]
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Willis Ted
Ted Willis Willis is better known to posterity as a screenwriter and playwright, especially as creator of `Dixon of Dock Green’, which made him famous overnight in 1953. Born in 1913, he came from a poor […]
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Hayball Ted
Ted (Edward) Hayball Ted Hayball was born in Bristol, the son of a sergeant major in the Royal Gloucestershire Regiment. After his father was killed in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in 1917, his mother […]
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Rogers Ted
Ted Rogers Edward Forster Rogers was born in 1918 into a lower middle class Methodist family in Sunderland. After attending Bede grammar school, Ted left school at 16 to enter the building trade as an […]
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Lismer Ted
Edward ‘Ted’ Lismer Ted Lismer was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire in 1883, the eldest son of six children of Edward Lismer (a draper in a department store) and his wife Harriett. We can gain […]
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