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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Public Record Office

Public Record Office

Known as ‘The Strong Box of the Empire’, the Public Record Office was created as a repository for parliamentary records after the 1834 fire which destroyed much of the Palace of Westminster, where ...

Group, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration

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Greater London Council

Greater London Council

Replaced the LCC. The GLC was abolished, some say, because Mrs Thatcher could not abide its left-wing politics, nor its leader, Ken Livingstone.  On its 50th anniversary Diamond Geezer posted a goo...

Group, Politics & Administration

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William John Gomm

William John Gomm

Recorded on the monument as a Member of Brentford Council in 1909. However, Brentford High Street gives "William John Gomm, Harry’s brother, also died in 1908 …" so it seems that WJG's name on the ...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial