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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William Francis Dewey
Islington Town Clerk in 1894, 1897 and 1906. Â Was interviewed by the Charles Booth survey of London. Our colleague Andrew Behan provides: "William Francis Dewey was born in Portsea, Hampshire, the...
4 memorials
Councillor Enos Smith
Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905. In a 1914 document published by the West Ham Public Libraries Committee we found reference to Smith being Chair and losing h...
1 memorial
Sir John Wynn
Second baronet. Welsh. Occupied 69 Meard Street, 1755–73.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Cecil Douglas Woodward, CBE, Deputy
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
1 memorial
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