Tag: Vauxhall

“Nicaragua House” – 121 Tyers street

In the late 1980s a man called Ron Tod fixed up a dilapidated old house in Vauxhall with the view to selling it and sending all the money to Bluefields in Nicaragua.

You can download the brochure for the house when it was completed here 121 Tyers street brochure

Below is some of the media coverage about the house, and this article sums up why Tod did it and all the help he got to make it happen.

The house was eventually sold and the money use to fund building projects in Bluefield’s on the Atlantic Coast.

John Todd article Independent May 1990
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John Todd 121 Tyers Street Tatler article 1990

 

 

Black Sections in the Labour Party

Linda Bellos (l) speaking at a Black Section meeting
Linda Bellos (l) speaking at a Black Section meeting

“The Labour Party has always quietly congratulated itself as being, almost by definition, the anti-racist party. It may be true that very few Black comrades take up positions as Party activists, that fewer still are elected in the name of the Labour Party to public office and that a Black delegate to Annual Conference is still a rarity, but the reasons for this, whatever they may be, cannot be the racism of the Labour Party structures themselves. Just how true is this myth ?”

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