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Jack Taylor â Evertonâs Son of the Rock
Thomas Keates (1928)
There must have been something in the water in Dunbartonshire in the second half of the 19th Century. Between 1889 and 1897, six footballers with strong connections to the Clydeside town of Dumbarton represented the Toffees. First there was Alex Latta, followed by Richard âDickieâ Boyle, Abe Hartley and the Bell brothers (John and Laurie). But only one, John âJackâ Taylor, would get his hands on silverware whilst associated with the Toffees â albeit after an agonising series of near-misses. One of the true greats of Evertonâs early decades, this moustachioed âJack of all tradesâ remains Evertonâs seventh highest appearance maker in all competitions.
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n 19 October 1945, 13 men gathered in Whitehall for a secret meeting. It was chaired by Courtenay Denis Carew Robinson, a senior Home Office official, and he was joined by representatives of the Foreign Office, the Ministry of War Transport, and the Liverpool police and immigration inspectorate. After the meeting, the Home Office’s aliens department opened a new file, designated HO/213/926. Its contents were not to be discussed in the House of Commons or the Lords, or with the press, or acknowledged to the public. It was titled “Compulsory repatriation of undesirable Chinese seamen”.
As the vast process of post-second world war reconstruction creaked into action, this deportation programme was, for the Home Office and Clement Attlee’s new government, just one tiny component. The country was devastated – hundreds of thousands were dead, millions were homeless, unemployment and inflation were soaring. The cost of the war had been so great that the UK would not finish payi
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