Hull’s corporation (now the council) blocked Mosley from using public buildings, so his supporters headed to Corporation Field.
Mosley and his men were dressed in the black uniforms inspired by Mussolini’s Italian militia, also known as Blackshirts.
“They marched down Park Street to the sound of drums,” says Paul Power, of the Hull and East Yorkshire Stand Up To Racism group.
According to Power, Mosley was jeered by the crowds, but when the noise died down he approached the microphone, only to find it was broken.
“It transpired, in a letter to the Hull Daily Mail later that year, that two boys had been paid in ice-cream to cut the wires.”
According to a report in the newspaper on 13 July, when Mosley eventually spoke, he said he was “going to put the case for fascism” and said his socialist opponents, whom he described as “Red hooligans”, were “frightened” to hear his case.
Power says: “There was fighting in the crowd, missiles were thrown and, after 30 minutes, Mosley began his retreat.
“The drums continued and Mosley’s men marched towards Anlaby Road, with Mosley in his car.
“The crowd followed, filling the road, filling the pavement, and as Mosley’s car reached the bridge near the junction with Anlaby Road, the side window was broken.”