Here is the next in the Humberstone Militia series and its the Garden Suburb Section. A wonderfully cute name for the section but it is based upon the area of housing built for workers of a local shoe factory. The Humberstone Garden Suburb is notable because it is the only time that a UK workers cooperative created a housing cooperative and built a housing estate for its members. The Anchor Tenants housing Association was formed in 1887 by the workers cooperative of the Anchor Boot and Shoe Co-operative Society which was a co-operatively run boot and shoe works in Asforby Street, Leicestershire. The members of the cooperative contributed a percentage of their wages and bought a block of land just outside Leicester by the village of Humberstone, and they built 97 houses. The first houses were in use by 1908 and the Anchor employees were let houses by the association at a rent that was collected to cover the upkeep of the properties.
The section is armed mainly with .303 SMLE rifles with the Shop Steward armed with a Begmann MP28 smg and the support for the section in the form of a Soviet made Degtyaryov DP28 lmg. The section carried a flag into battle as left leanings socialists politics and are considered the best motivated troops in the Militia, being used as the mainstay of any attacks.
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| Humberstone Militia, Garden Suburb Section |
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| Humberstone Militia, Garden Suburb Section |
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| Humberstone Militia, Garden Suburb Section Standard |
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