| Ken Weetch 07:38 - Mar 11 with 779 views | DJR |
Here's a nice obituary which appears in today's Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/po
It mentions he was an enthusiastic supporter of Ipswich Town. [Post edited 11 Mar 7:39]
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| Ken Weetch on 08:44 - Mar 11 with 696 views | soupytwist |
Quite the journey from a "hillside shack without running water in Monmouthshire". |  | | |
| Ken Weetch on 12:32 - Mar 11 with 619 views | jontysnut |
Despite being a bit more of a radical 18 year old in 1979 I did some canvassing for him in that election. He was a nice guy, even when I was urging him to nationalise everything and abolish the royal family. [Post edited 11 Mar 12:55]
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| Ken Weetch on 19:52 - Mar 14 with 491 views | ford6600 |
Saw him on the train going to Wembley for the Charity Shield match in 1978. |  | | |
| Ken Weetch on 23:08 - Mar 14 with 397 views | 66notout |
Excellent obituary with a lot of fascinating detail. Thank you for posting.
I knew Ken, while his wife taught three of my children. | | | |
| Ken Weetch on 09:43 - Mar 22 with 205 views | DJR |
The body of a nice letter written to the Guardian.
"The obituary of Ken Weetch details his contribution to both education and politics, as Labour MP for Ipswich.
In the early 1960s he was my history teacher at Mayfield boys school in Ilford, then in Essex. Truly inspirational, he left me with a lifelong interest in economic and social history. I recall him waxing lyrical about the impact of Turnip Townshend’s crop rotation system on Britain’s agricultural revolution.
No wonder that he went on to represent the county town of such an agricultural region as Suffolk." | | | |
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