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Liberal Club Committee (probably about 1914), photographed alongside the Liberal Club in Colley Lane. Back row (left to right): William Ashmore (blacksmith), Alfred Hickman (school teacher), Ted Starling (works manager), Sidney Abbiss (painter), Edgar Dunn (warehouseman) and Joe Round (colliery engine minder). Middle Row: Arthur Blunt (engineer), George Bird (blacksmith), William Tate (butcher and farmer), T. M. Clewes (mop and twine manufacturer), Joe Hickman (coal merchant), Alf Westwood (chainmaker) and Henry Reece (chain manufacturer). Front row: Joseph Hodgetts (chainmaker), Edgar Bloomer (engineer), Ben Southall (grocer), Heber Bloomer (chainmaker).