Correcting as I go I typed the wrong name of one of Harry Wright’s walking/photography group it should have been Fred Stott. He was another strong Methodist laypreacher who was the Personel Manager at the Dockyard and served as a Ward Councillor for the Efford Ward up to the early eighties.
As deputy Leader of the Labour Group, his passion was the Museum service and served on the Local Government National Museum Committee for many years. He was a very forceful orator and it was always a morolistic approach. It was where I heard about the inequality of access to opportunity for our people first being voiced by someone with whom it was very difficult to debate with from the purity of the line about fairness for everyone.
More about Fred and the others who formed the Labour Council in 1945 and their experiences in rebuilding the City with the Atlee government later. A number of the group played role beyond local government, demanding though that was, in the development of the NHS,and the nationalised electricity and gas services where the structures and control management that was needed was similar to local government, particularly in the accountability areas.
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