| AdminHistory | John Edward Oakes was a Councillor for the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar and lived at 47 Norman Road, Bow. He was sent to Brixton Prison with other Poplar Councillors including George Lansbury in 1921 for refusing to levy Poplar's share of the London County Council, Police and Metropolitan Asylum contributions. Their refusal was on the grounds that local rate payers were already impoverished with high levels of unemployment. |