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History
MAKING THEIR MARK
The new town pioneers very quickly
made their mark in local community
life. Besides campaigning for their own
needs on the new estates as resident
associations and through their newsletter
the Stevenage Echo, they joined
enthusiastically into local sports, arts and
political activities with their old towner
near neighbours. Alf Luhman, Mick
Cotter, Hilda and Bill Lawrence, Stan
Munden and Jimmy Cockerton all helped
Stevenage become a municipal stronghold
for the Labour Party by the mid-1950s.
In time all of these local leaders would
become Mayors of Stevenage.
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