Posted by Peter Ceresole on June 27, 2014 at 00:40:11 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: on=line copy of Daily News & Leader 1915-1919 posted by Paul Crisp on June 26, 2014 at 14:15:26:
On another point, both The Times and The Daily Telegraph today carried obituaries for Norman Willis
A splendid chap. I interviewed him for a programme on the 125th anniversary of the TUC, and he was interesting, funny, really rather wise and, when I looked at the archive footage of him being howled down the miners, clearly a brave man.
At the time I had no idea that as well as being General Secretary of the TUC he'd also been involved with embroidery, and with TARS. I missed a chance for a chat there...