Working Class History Workshops

[Mitch]

Hey Fred & All,

Guess what, I've volunteered to do the odd Sunday up at the Clarion Hut, Roughlee. (it's calmed down a bit up there since your day!! ;D)

This has given me a few ideas, as well as lots of conversations I've had recently with people about the ILP (Independent Labour Party) (I've had two long phone conversations just today).

There is something about the locally focussed libertarian socialist approach of the ILP that stirs the soul round here (mine too), and there are many that remember those days. When we had the play 'Tea with Mrs Pankhurst' - which was really about Selina Cooper Nelsonians crammed into the old ILP socialist centre to see it.

I reckon as well as workshops on the Spanish Civil War in the new year, around the 70th Anniversary, we should also organise a workshop on the ILP, with archives and so forth on display.

There are many that would help, and there is so much to learn from the old ILP's approach.

What do you think??

[michele cryer]

I think that's a great idea Mitch..btw, what you volunteering as?

[fred]

Becareful what reply you make Mitch, It could do Headless irriparable harm.

[Mitch]

Headless lost the plot after you took him the wrong way up a motorway!! ;D

Hey Michele, on the Clarion Hut, I'm just volunteering as a worker there for the occasional Sundays.

It's fab up there, have you been? I'm going up to get trained on lighting the fire and wot not on the morning of Sunday 4th December if you fancy coming too!!

Let us know.

Bestest Mitch x

[michele cryer]

Hiya Mitch..sounds great wot you're doing...yeah, I've been up there once with Socialist Alliance peeps, about 4 years ago, very pretty...great outdoor loo!!! LOL ;D

I wouldn't mind visiting there with you on Sunday 4th December...have had a bit of experience with open coal fires, if that's what you're on about, as me mum and dad had one for years, in fact they still do!! titter...

[Mitch]

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Hiya Mitch..sounds great wot you're doing...yeah, I've been up there once with Socialist Alliance peeps, about 4 years ago, very pretty...great outdoor loo!!! LOL ;D

I wouldn't mind visiting there with you on Sunday 4th December...have had a bit of experience with open coal fires, if that's what you're on about, as me mum and dad had one for years, in fact they still do!! titter...

They've got an indoor loo up there now!! ;D
Great - I can pick you up on the morning of the 4th then. A lot of the old Socialist Alliance people still go up there regularly, I speak with one in particularly regularly now (no it's not Headless, it's someone else - he's trying to arrange new meets and walks up there at the moment).

It'll be fun to get up there more regularly.