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The Ambridge Socialist

18^th September

Joe Grundy (b 18^th September 1921): A Proletarian Salute

Edward Kelsey, a lifelong trade unionist, died in April 2019 aged 88 and the character he represented for so long in the Archers Joe Grundy died a little short of 100 years of age in October 2019.

Joe Grundy was born 100 years ago on 18^th September 1921

Joe’s funeral was held on 8th November 2019, at St Stephens Church Ambridge

There was a lot of memorialising about the late Joe Grundy in Ambridge after his death. His nemesis Bert Fry wrote a poem and the Professor tinkled the keyboards with a special tune, believed to have been a variation on The Wurzels, I am a cider drinker

Some of the memories were less than satisfactory however. David Archer claimed that Joe Grundy was a poacher and, by definition that this was wrong. The Ambridge Socialist believes that Joe Grundy was not poaching but taking animals from common land for his own use and purposes. Further Archer claimed that Joe Grundy’s dog had to be shot by the Archer Dynasty as it was worrying sheep. This was simply an act of class war and vengeance on the Archers’ part and deserves to be remembered as such.

Joe Grundy was a fearless and tireless opponent of the rich of Ambridge and deserves to be remembered on the 100^th anniversary of his birth as a proletarian hero. Someone who was always for the many of Ambridge not the few, otherwise known as the Archer Dynasty