This is the abridged text of a speech given by Workers’ Liberty supporter Edward Maltby to an AWL forum entitled “Our Remembrance: a working-class history of war” at the University of London Union on Thursday 15 November 2012. The meeting was attended by over 100 people, stirred up by a controversy around Workers’ Liberty member and ULU Vice President Daniel Cooper’s refusal to take part in an official University of London Remembrance ceremony.
Today marks 100 years since women were banned from playing on FA-affiliated grounds, and we celebrate the life and times of local lass Minnie Seed, who captained Sunderland against Newcastle in 1919. #ForTheLoveOfTheGame
BY ANDREW THOMAS For many years people in Windermere marked the coming of the New Year with a fancy dress pram race around the town’s streets. It was a fun and colourful event that always drew the crowds on New Year’s Day. That was certainly the case in 1993 when unusually dry and mild weather attracted many people to line the streets to watch the spectacular race. The 18th pram race was organised by Windermere Lions Club. Twenty-three teams turned out in colourful perambulators of all shapes and sizes for the event, which was firmly fixed in Windermere’s social calendar.