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oldfrenchhorn said:
Ellen Wilkinson ?
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All yours Frenchie <applause> I thought the Alan Hull clue might have given it away - ref. the song Marshall Riley's Army from Lindisfarne all about the Jarrow march. Ellen Wilkinson was the MP for Jarrow at the time who presented their petition to the PM, and walked a lot of the way with them. The reference to Middlesbrough was that her statue there was the first ever erected to a woman in the town (she was MP there before Jarrow.). Take it away.
 
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Yes you are both correct. Between 1924 and 1927 he played ten first-class matches, scoring 147 runs at an average of 16.33 with a best score of 37 not out. As a bowler he took 12 wickets at an average of 30.25 with a best of 3 for 43. He is the only British PM to have played first class cricket.
 
oldfrenchhorn said:
Would this be Eriskay and the Poltician?
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It certainly would. The true story of the stranding of SS Politician on submerged rocks off the coast of Eriskay with a cargo of whisky and a large sum of Jamaican currency in 1941 - which led to the book & film Whisky Galore. When the first pub on the island was built in 1988, it was named AM Politician in honour of the event.

Over to you.
 
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