Poplar rates rebellion mural, detail

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Poplar rates rebellion mural, detail

Image: © Natasha Ceridwen de Chroustchoff Taken: 26 Jun 2008

Poplar council's defiance of government's municipal funding policy in 1921 received huge community support and Poplar Town Hall (now demolished) was mobbed. However the leader of the rebellion, George Lansbury, was editor of the Daily Herald (which he helped to found) not Reynold's News which was another left-wing newspaper. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Herald http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/infodocs/people/pst_lansbury.html

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