🧵A thread of local history #LGBTplusHM 🔎Scandal at Grove Lodge This post is in a series recognising local lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history as part of LGBT+ History Month. In what may seem like a plot from Downton Abbey, one scandal 1/14

FEB 3&4 – Ken ‘Snakehips’ Johnson 🧵A #LGBTplusHM Thread Kenrick Reginald Hijmans Johnson (1914-1941), known as Ken ‘Snakehips’ Johnson was an incredibly popular musician, undoubtedly one of the most famous black men in Britain. His broadcasts on BBC Radio during the 1/13

FEB 6 – Ivor Novello This 🧵thread is in a series recognising local lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history as part of LGBT+ History Month which is celebrated every February in the UK. Perhaps one of Maidenheads most famous residents was the stage and screen 1/13

🧵 A thread in a series recognising local lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history as part of LGBT+ History Month. Hector Bolitho born 28th May 1897 was a prolific author and journalist who by the time of his death in 1974 had written over 80 books. 1/14

🧵 A thread on LGBT Local History as part of LGBT History Month in the UK. #LGBTplusHM Cosmo Alan Cuthbert Ryder - Blackmail & Honeytraps? The First World War would be an experience that would challenge the norms, politics and social attitudes of many societies. The first 1/17

🧵a thread recognising local lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history as part of LGBT+ History Month. Gerald Hamilton, perhaps our Borough's most controversial resident... One of Maidenhead and later Windsor’s more controversial but little-known residents was 1/24

Feb 12 – George Montague PART 1 🧵 This thread is in a series recognising local lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history as part of LGBT+ History Month. George Montague born in 1923 and grew up in a small village on the outskirts of Maidenhead. Both his parents would 1/25

Feb 12 - George Montague PART 2 him. He was cruising in a local cottage when the Police raided. George would be charged and convicted of gross indecency. “I knew what was going to happen, and I was terrified and horrified and thought my life had finished. I was employing 1/8

Feb 14 – An extraordinary story of impersonation of a Viscount 🧵 This thread is in a series recognising local lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history as part of LGBT+ History Month. In 1948, the Windsor, Eton & Slough Express would report an extraordinary story 1/7