A Trip to Rome
In 1933 unemployment on Teesside was almost total, due to the after effects of the General Strike and a grinding recession. The Catholic Newspaper the Universe, organised a pilgrimage to Rome and I am still researching, how this was funded.My father Tommy Fleming(Bunty), was part of this. He lived in Grangetown at the time and worked at Bolkow and Vaughan,later Dorman Long.He was unemployed at the time and went on to complete fifty years with the Company. Amongst the family heirlooms, are momentoes of this pilgrimage.I have a photograph from this trip(reproduced below) and I have lost count the number of times, when I was young,counting the number of men in the photo, but I gave up and all the family, doing the same, came up with different answers anyway. I have reproduced it to show the whole crowd and then picked out the section, where my father is.You may have relatives on this photo.
It measures 19" by 8" and is mounted in a glass frame. |  |
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