Hull Labour Councillors propose a motion calling on the city council to commemorate the 1936 Battle of Corporation Field as the event nears its 90th anniversary. On July 13, 1936, #OswaldMosley and the British Union of Fascists were run out of the city by a crowd of anti-fascists, socialists, trade unionists and members of the city’s Jewish and Irish communities, when they attempted to hold a rally at Corporation Field.
While similar events that happened in the 1930's at Holbeck Moor in Leeds, Stockton in Stockton-on-Tees, and most famously at #CableStreet in London, all have their own memorials, the Battle of Corporation Field does not. The motion calls for the leader of the council, Councillor Mike Ross, to allocate funding from his contingency fund to kick-start the process of organising a memorial. ... See MoreSee Less

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By Simon Bristow , Co-Editor Labour councillors will propose a motion next week calling on the city council to commemorate the 1936 Battle of Corporation Field as the event nears its 90th anniversary....