Born Joseph James Vaughan in East London. Started work, aged 8, while still at school. As an electrician he entered into trade union politics and as a left-wing Labour supporter became a councillor in Bethnal Green in 1914 and was Mayor 1919 - 1922. Founder member of the Communist Party of Great Britain but remained a member of the Labour Party. Narrowly failed to become an elected MP.
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Councillor Joe Vaughan
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Lenin Estate / Parmiter Street Housing
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green Parmiter Street Re-housing Scheme This ...
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Councillor Joe Vaughan
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Diss Street re-housing scheme
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green Diss Street Re-housing Scheme This comm...
Swinburne House
Apart from the architect the names on this plaque are the same as those on th...
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2 memorials
G. W. Howlett
Councillor on the Committee for the 1901 Shoreditch Town Hall Extension.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Col. Sir Horace Brooks Marshall, K.C.V.O., LL.D.
Very successfully pioneered bookshops on railway stations with the business name Horace Marshall and Son. The son being Horace Brooks Marshall, Jnr. Snr. was a Commoner on the Bridge House Estates...
1 memorial
Kenneth Alfred Ballard, MC
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
1 memorial
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Marquess of Salisbury opens building
W8, St Alban's Grove, 1, Atlantic House
British History On-line gives "This part of the site was rebuilt in 1951–5 for the College of Estate Management as a two-storey block in ...
1 creator
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
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