Posted by Dan Ford on November 04, 2008 at 18:13:03 user DanFord.
In Reply to: Re: What happened to the Depression? posted by Peter Ceresole on November 04, 2008 at 13:51:46:
I suspect it would have been a different story if the Lake District had been in Germany, but I don't think the Communists were fighting the National Socialists in the streets of Kendal.
However there were huge confrontations in London on many occasions, most notably The Battle Of Cable Street, where Oswald Mosley's fascists had planned a march through the jewish areas of the East End, they were halted by a coalition of resistance groups, ordinary people of the area, along with jewish groups, the communists and other polirical parties. I suspect London did not suffer these problems in isolation.