Person    | Male  Born 6/4/1945  Died 3/10/2017

Rodney Bickerstaffe

Rodney Kevan Bickerstaffe was born on 6 April 1945 in Hammersmith.

He was the General Secretary of National Union of Public Employees from 1982 to 1993 and of UNISON from 1996 to 2001. He died from cancer of the oesophagus, aged 72 years, on 3 October 2017, at the Marie Curie Hospice in Camden.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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Rodney Bickerstaffe

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National Union of Public Employees

Planted on 13th October 1989 to celebrate a hundred years of caring in the pu...

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Bermondsey Town Hall

Bermondsey Town Hall

The Victorian Town Hall was bombed in WW2 and demolished in 1963. After the bombing the neighbouring municipal offices (1928, H. Tansley) were used for all council needs. Then in 1964 Bermondsey be...

Building, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Embassy of the Czech Republic

Embassy of the Czech Republic

Located at 26 - 30 Kensington Palace Gardens, the building occupies the site of a mid-nineteenth century Italinate villa. Before 1993, when the Czech Republic came into existence, the building was ...

Building, Politics & Administration, Czechoslovakia

1 memorial
William Marsden, Secretary of the Admiralty

William Marsden, Secretary of the Admiralty

As secretary of the Admiralty in November 1805 it was Marsden who was the first to receive the news of the Battle of Trafalgar. Born County Wicklow. Sent by the civil service to work in Sumatra a...

Person, Politics & Administration, Indonisia, Ireland

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Councillor T. F. H. French

Councillor T. F. H. French

Member of Housing Committee, Diss Street 1922. Aldermen and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926. Councillor and on the Bethnal Green Baths Committee in 1926.

Person, Politics & Administration

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