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Joseph Rayner Stephens plaque and memorial, Stalybridge

Taken from the Unite Rebel Road project at:- http://www.unitetheunion.org/growing-our-union/education/rebelroad/

Joseph Rayner Stephens plaque and memorial, Stalybridge 

The Tameside Metropolitan Borough plaque to Stephens is sited on Stalybridge Town Hall frontage, Waterloo Road, Stalybridge.

Stephens was a radical reformer who lived between 1805 and 1879 and was involved in the Chartist movement and campaigned against the Poor Law and for factory reform. 

For more information go to:- 

http://www.tameside.gov.uk/TouristInformationCentre/Blue-Plaque-Joseph-Rayner-Stephens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayner_Stephens

http://spartacus-educational.com/IRstephens.htm

Download for free: Life of Joseph Rayner Stephens, preacher and political orator, which was written by George Jacob Holyoake.  https://archive.org/details/lifeofjosephrayn00holyrich

The memorial to Stephens is located in Stamford Park, Stalybridge. 

It was unveiled in 1888 and was commissioned by local factory workers to commemorate the work Stephens had done in promoting fair wages and better working conditions.

More details at:- http://www.pmsa.org.uk/pmsa-database/4480/


Many thanks to Tony Shaw, a Unite Community member from Mytholmroyd, for the photos that appear on this page 

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The plaque commemorating the Battle of Bexley Square, Salford in October 1931

Taken from the Unite Rebel Road project.

http://www.unitetheunion.org/growing-our-union/education/rebelroad/plaques/#Stalybridge%20and%20the%201842%20General%20Strike%20plaque

The Battle of Bexley Square, Salford in October 1931

This plaque is on a wall in Bexley Square in front of old Salford Town Hall. 

The 1920s and 30s was an era of mass unemployment. On 1 October 1931, 10,000 unemployed men and women marched to Salford Town Hall at Bexley Square. As campaigners tried to hand in a petition protesting against means-tested benefits and unemployment they were met with awful violence from the very men charged with protecting their liberty.

Read more:- 

http://salfordonline.com/33070-watch-85-years-battle-bexley-square-care.html

http://www.wcml.org.uk/our-collections/protest-politics-and-campaigning-for-change/unemployment/salford-unemployed-march-1931/

Take a look at the cinematic coverage at:-  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA2ITFJsbfI 

One of those arrested on the day was Eddie Frow, who later established with his wife Ruth, the Working Class Movement Library http://www.unitetheunion.org/growing-our-union/education/rebelroad/museums/#Working%20Class%20Movement%20Library

Please credit this photograph to Tony Shaw, a Unite Community member from Mytholmroyd. 

Plaque commemorates first TUC held in June 1868

There is a plaque on the outside of the Mechanics' Institute, Princess Street, Manchester where the first Trade Union Congress was held from 2-6 June, 1868. Built in 1854 as a centre for working class, adult education it offered a wide range of evening classes in English grammar, writing, reading, music, arithmetic, Latin and other languages. It was also the birthplace of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and the Cooperative Insurance Society. The building, which is Grade II listed now houses the Mechanics Institute Trust and is part of the Peoples History Museum.

Photo taken by Tony Shaw, a Unite Community member from Mytholmroyd.

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