tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post5851042415137660940..comments2024-03-18T08:20:19.461+00:00Comments on Transpontine: Gasworkers strike 1889/90Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-24115164068843723112022-01-20T21:13:10.230+00:002022-01-20T21:13:10.230+00:00Oh oooer - (did this register the comment I just w...Oh oooer - (did this register the comment I just wrote?? It said roughly that I am still trying to write up the strike and Livesey - because half Peckham has been named after him recently.<br />Rather than write him up I have done three (self published so not in bookshops) books and it would be wonderful if Transpontine (who I admire greatly) reviewed them and also encouraged me to do Livesey and the gas workers at last. Please.MARY Millsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-73129936403119316722022-01-20T21:08:46.180+00:002022-01-20T21:08:46.180+00:00still trying to write all this up - busy with othe...still trying to write all this up - busy with other things. Meanwhile half Peckham is being named after Livesey. <br />Still hope you review it - and also (happy to send copies) he three books on other subjects I have written during lockdown,Mary Millanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-34414289297983376512019-03-04T18:57:52.831+00:002019-03-04T18:57:52.831+00:00- and - I don't know why I didn't spot thi...- and - I don't know why I didn't spot this before when I put the above up 10 years ago. Of course Livesey wasn't 'the owner' of the gasworks. It was owned by the shareholders most of whom were City interests. The major shareholder when Livesey was manager was Richard Foster - look him up on Wikipedia. He was a church building City banker.<br />Anyway have dug out my 30 year old notes and am attempting to write something coherent. Hope you review it. <br /><br />Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13988393651468490255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-73341346030837976032008-11-21T16:01:00.000+00:002008-11-21T16:01:00.000+00:00I'm interested that someone else has picked up Liv...I'm interested that someone else has picked up Livesey - who was an contradictory, complex character, as well as being a major strike breaker (and a hater of trade unions) he wanted property re-distributed so working people could become owners and set up a scheme whereby workers could become company directors of the gasworks. He also upset other private gas companies by suggesting that they lowered their profits until prices too went down. <BR/>He was brought up in a house in Canal Grove alongside the gas works and I am almost certain he never went to school. He was a major figure in the London Band of Hope.<BR/>I wrote up the gas workers 1889 strike in day by day detail in South London Record about fifteen years ago and also deposited the outline of a biography of Livesey in the Southwark Local History Library. <BR/>In the past I have lectured all over the place about him and the 1889 strike - happy to do so again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8650332.post-57100539300287324762008-07-11T12:49:00.000+00:002008-07-11T12:49:00.000+00:00Livesey was actually condemned by the local Temper...Livesey was actually condemned by the local Temperance (no drink) Movement because he laid on alcohol for his “blacklegs” from Salford, Birmingham, Portsmouth and the Essex brickfield.<BR/><BR/>So rough and drunk were the Birmingham "scabs" they were sent back or simply sacked others joined the unionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com