Formed in 1984 by Mark Ashton and his friend Mike Jackson, this group was only wound down in 2015. The London group used the bookshop Gay's the Word as their HQ. The largest fund-raising event was the 1984 "Pits and Perverts" benefit concert, in the Electric Ballroom in Camden Town.
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Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners
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Mark Ashton
The crowd funded plaque was unveiled on 19 May 2017, Ashton's 57th birthday. ...
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Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Suffragette. Born Bristol. Married Frederick. A happy marriage they shared their surnames and worked together for the cause. Died Gomshall, Surrey. The picture shows, left to right: Constance Lytt...
Isabella Ford
Isabella Ormston Ford was a social reformer, suffragist and writer. She became a public speaker and wrote pamphlets on issues related to socialism, feminism and worker's rights. After becoming conc...
Noël Barclay
Central President of the Mothers' Union in 1925. We found reference to a publication probably authored by her: Barclay, E. Noel, Marriage and Divorce (1936).
Agnes Maude Royden
Settlement work in Liverpool then London, National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, edited Common Cause, Church League for Women’s Suffrage, preacher, pacifist, later campaigned for ordination ...
The Black Cap
Public House. It was originally called the Mother Black Cap after a local legend concerning a witch, and had that name, according to licensing records, as early as 1751. In the mid 1960s it became ...
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Battle of Trafalgar - Brentford war memorial
TW8, Kew Bridge Road, 56, The Express Tavern Public House
This plaque is a rare thing - a war memorial naming the enlisted men who died in a war prior to 1900. Admittedly it was erected quite re...
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Glasgow School of Art
Founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Government School of Design. It changed to its current name in 1853. The main building, shown in the picture, in Renfrew Street was designed by Charles Rennie Mackint...
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