tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12284263450550544482024-03-13T08:37:19.647-07:00Looking for Tommy MoranAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13696017269489334445noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228426345055054448.post-65296970702914985472015-05-03T00:51:00.001-07:002015-06-07T11:30:19.740-07:00Trouble on Tyneside<br />
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Labour Movement and for some time had served as Branch Secretary for Newcastle
West. In July 1933 disillusioned with Labour, he was won over to Fascism. Whilst
reading of and researching Tommy`s early days in the movement, there has been
three separate incidents that I have found particularly memorable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><strong>Firstly, a</strong> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sunderland Echo</i></b> <strong>report from December 13<sup>th</sup> 1933</strong></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p><strong> </strong></o:p></span></i></div>
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Fascists and J**s in a Newcastle dance hall. Thomas Patrick Moran, engineer, of
22 Budle Street, Newcastle, was fined a total of £7 with two guineas costs at
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drunk and disorderly, assaulting two attendants, Sydney Park and William
Gilbert and to assaulting Police Sergeant Watt.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
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he saw a man in Fascist uniform arguing with a J**. He ordered both men to
leave the hall and Moran intervened. There was a fight. Moran was very violent
and struck him.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
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struck him in the face and had to be held down until a policeman arrived.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
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drunk and struggled violently. At the police station he had to be handcuffed
before he could be got into the cells.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
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he had been in trouble. He had been celebrating his birthday. “Some J**s were
setting about our chaps and I went to their assistance.” He said. “I took what
was coming to me, and other people took what was going to them. I was drunk.”</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
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useful work in South Shields. On Sunday January 21, a certain individual addressed
a gathering in the Labour Hall on Fascism. This man claimed to be <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">au fait </span>with the knowledge of the
"thuggery" and brutality of Fascists. C/O Moran entered the hall
unaccompanied whereon the said individual "dried up". </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
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no disturbance had or was likely to take place, the precaution was unnecessary,
which fact the policeman placed on record. That one Fascist could cow a hall full
of anti-Fascists without any threats or attempts at violence speaks well for
the respect in which our men are held.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i><br />
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Monument every Sunday evening has become a feature of Newcastle life. Meetings
held there have always been lively, but of late there has been a tendency for
the opposition to become rougher than usual and to show signs of organised
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heckling developed into systematic shouting and singing. Suddenly a concerted
rush was made for the platform. Almost overwhelmed by the weight of the crowd,
the stewards were forced back. The speaker had to vacate the platform, which
was smashed. Encouraged by this apparent success, the “Reds” went further and
several of our men were struck.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div>
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conciliatory methods, but seeing our men go down he gave the order to fight
back. The one constable present was of </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">course unable to cope with the
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boots were all used upon the Blackshirts and many were kicked and rendered
unconscious. One Fascist who was being carried away from the struggle by
sympathisers was kicked into unconsciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The story begins. Tommy Moran was born at number 7, Raglan Place, Elswick, in Newcastle`s old west end, on the 12th of December 1900</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">. Parents, John and Mary Ann, were both originally from the west of Ireland . At that time, John was working as</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> a driller-hand in the shipyards. The 1911 census finds the Moran family living a few streets away from Raglan Place, on Bell</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Terrace. Bell Terrace </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">was de</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">molished <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to make way for the new Cruddas Park high rise flats, below (Bell Terrace would have stood mid-ground) Note, St Michael`s RC church, top right.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13696017269489334445noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228426345055054448.post-15363132811064634142015-04-25T12:44:00.001-07:002015-04-28T13:54:36.732-07:00I Remember the Blackshirts<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Thirty plus years and a couple of Italian holidays later, seeing at first hand the tangible remains of Mussolini`s Fascist regime, my Grandad`s words came back to me. Blackshirts? In Derby? What was that all about? A quick internet search provided my connection, a wiki article on Tommy Moran. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Intrigued, I wanted to know more about this Tommy Moran. Most sources churn out the same few lines of Limited information. Ex-Miner, Engineer, Royal Navy boxing champion, folk hero of the British Fascist movement and “Hero” of Cable Street. Tommy can be seen in action in the old newsreel footage above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Tommy along with a small group
of companions was one of the first Blackshirts to reach the vicinity of Cable
Street. The small group were on their way to join the B.U.F. column, when they
were set upon, outside Mark Lane Station. His companions soon lay sprawled in the street, Tommy with his
back to the wall put up a terrific fight against half a dozen or so men who
were attacking him simultaneously. One after another he sent them reeling with
clean boxing blows, until he himself was felled by a chair leg. The full newsreel,
had been shown in cinemas nationwide, but was rapidly withdrawn. Only part of the footage (the above)
remains available to the public domain, but it does briefly show Tommy in
action and later having his head bandaged.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There is very little information to be found on Tommy, pre July 1933, when he joined Mosley`s British Union of Fascists, and again nothing, post February 1949, with a newspaper article carrying the headline “Fascist Quits Mosley.” Tommy had disappeared. What became of Tommy Moran?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This blog is dedicated to the memory of my Grandad, Leonard Calladine, never a Fascist, always a gentleman, and without whom, this project would never have seen the light of day.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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