1960s Union Movement emblem graffiti

In the mid 1960s there was electoral activity from the Union Movement (UM) in Harrow, including elections to the Greater London Council and borough candidatures in wards such as Roxeth and Wealdstone North.

The image below, from a photograph taken in November 2023, shows an example of the type of graffiti daubed by the UM in the 1960s at certain locations.  Shown is the side wall of the former Fine Fare supermarket at the junction of Eastcote Lane with Northolt Road in Roxeth ward.  Another location for this type of graffiti was the old Roxborough Bridge in central Harrow.

Although much faded after 60 years, the lightning strike in a circle emblem of the UM (and its predecessor, the British Union of Fascists) can still be discerned.  Colin Cross in his book The Fascists in Britain (Barrie and Rockliff, London, 1961, page 76) explained that "the lightning represented the Fascist power of action and the circle represented the unified Fascist state.  Opponents called it 'the flash in the pan'."