6 Dorset farm labourers, transported to Australia for joining a trade union. Following mass protests against their treatment the government was forced to give pardons and eventually after 2 years, all returned home. Five of them continued their campaign and supported the Chartists.
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Tolpuddle Martyrs
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Tolpuddle Martyrs at Copenhagen Fields
Copenhagen Fields From this site on 21st April 1834 thousands marched in sup...
Tolpuddle Martyrs mural
A modern information board informs that the mural was painted by Dave Bangs i...
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Mair Garside
Westminster Councillor. Married to Hugh Garside. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly investigated this woman: Mair Eluned Rees was born on 30 August 1931 in Cardiff or Neath (depending on source...
1 memorial
Anne Winefride O'Reilly, M.B.E.
Schoolteacher. Headteacher at Peckham Emergency Central School, 1940 - 46, and the first head at Walworth's first comprehensive school, 1947 - 55, when she retired.  Founding member of the All En...
Person, Education, Emergency Services, Politics & Administration, Wales
1 memorial
Alec Roy
Roy was Chair of the Lee Valley Park 1981-6. We can't find any information on him so we looked into the Park instead. The Park is huge, 10,000 acres, more than four times the size of Richmond Park...
1 memorial
Henry Clinton, 2nd Earl of Lincoln
Known for repeated accusations of extortion, abduction and arson, among other things, Henry was likely among the most feared and hated noblemen in England during his time as Earl of Lincoln. Style...
1 memorial
Urban Hall
Prime Warden of the Fishmonger Company in 1716, 1717.  Lived in  Broad Street.
1 memorial
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