please empty your brain below
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You were keen today.
Kris Palace | 04.05.26 - 7:01 a.m. | #
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I'm afraid that the link to the planning documents doesn't seem to be working - I'm getting a message saying document unavailable.
dg writes: tweaked, thanks
Eccleston Square used to be home to the Catholic Truth Society and various other Roman Catholic bodies, no doubt due to the proximity to Westminster Cathedral. I visited one of them back in the late 1980s when I was researching for my PhD. They've clearly moved out to cheaper lodgings.
Joan | 04.05.26 - 8:25 a.m. | #
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I didn't know proximity to Victoria was a bad thing.
kev | 04.05.26 - 8:46 a.m. | #
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Many thanks for reminding us of this important anniversary; surprising that BBC and other media have little to say about it.
dg writes: BBC news, news & programme
Phil SW11 | 04.05.26 - 8:54 a.m. | #
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The economist J.K. Galbraith described the decision to return to the gold standard in 1925 at the pre WW1 gold and dollar value of the pound as "most disastrous error by a government in modern economic history". Of course he was a Keynesian and he said this about 50 years ago. His BBC series, The Age of Uncertainty" is on I player.
Chris Atkins | Homepage | 04.05.26 - 10:26 a.m. | #
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Phil SW11... A full page in The Times
scrumpy | 04.05.26 - 10:36 a.m. | #
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Did the General Strike really achieve nothing, all adults over 21 got the vote in 1928, Labour the most seats in the 1929 election which produced a hung parliament, they were supported by the Liberals, and the Bank of England abandoned the Gold Standard in 1931.
Gold Standard in 1925, ERM in 1990.
Still Anon | 04.05.26 - 10:53 a.m. | #
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Superb research on a very important part of the peoples history
Not just on the house
But on the General Strike
Really appreciate all this detail
Its a mini-booklet in itself.
re Thatcher et al
Great move dividing all our "family silver" (as Harold Macmillan called it), all our public services, into little parcels . . . so we no longer have a national gas, electricity, water, telephone, rail network. It's all been split into little bits, owned or run by various companies, quango's, mayors etc, so workers nationally can only strike by whatever company, quango they work for.
All for supposed competition, 'devolution' etc
That was one of the aims for sure
Le Ver | 04.05.26 - 11:49 a.m. | #
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Fascinating read, thank you.
Cornish Cockney | 04.05.26 - 12:44 p.m. | #
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Thank you so much! This was so interesting
Lu | 04.05.26 - 8:14 p.m. | #
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Unfortunately, the TUC now has plans to move on from Congress House. I say unfortunately because many years ago I worked there and it has long been one of my favourite buildings in London.
Bryn Davies | 04.05.26 - 9:52 p.m. | #
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A vivid, well-researched piece that brings history to life through place. The contrast between the building’s quiet present and its pivotal past is striking, especially Churchill’s nearby residence. It captures both the scale and human cost of the General Strike while reflecting on its legacy with nuance.
Michael Hemsworth | Homepage | 05.05.26 - 12:24 p.m. | #
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The Past Present Future podcast did an anniversary episode on the general strike which I found fascinating and very insightful. And, for a subject that arouses strong opinions, pretty balanced as well.
BCW | 05.05.26 - 12:54 p.m. | #
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My grandfather Charles Leatherland worked there. He was in the Labour Party Press & Publicity Department. He wrote parts of the British Worker during the General Strike. He later joined the Daily Herald becoming Assistant Editor
David | 06.05.26 - 4:11 p.m. | #
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