Early Life
Crow was born in Shadwell, London. The son of a lavatory attendant, his family moved to Hainault while he was an infant. He is the son of George Crow and Lillian Hutton. He attended Kingswood Upper School (a secondary modern school which merged with the Grange School in 1982 to become Hainault Forest High School) on Harbourer Road (near Hainault Forest Country Park) until the age of sixteen when he left school. While he was working for London Transport as an underground track-repairer, he started to become involved in union politics. In 1983 he was elected as a local representative to the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) and then, in 1985, he became NUR national officer for track workers.
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