Ye Old Trafford Habitation Primrose League banner, made in c.1900.

‘The Primrose [Primula vulgaris] League was a grassroots Conservative organisation founded in 1883 by Lord Randolph Churchill and a group of like-minded Tories.  They were inspired by the popular conservatism of former Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, who had died just two years before.’ By 1910 the League had over two million members, but it gradually lost its appeal, and it was finally wound up in 2004, though later there was an attempt to revive it.

Now displayed in the People’s History Museum, Manchester; photographed September 2025.