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Walking with women’s suffrage in the Colne Valley
Heritage Open Day: Florence Lockwood, a student at the Slade school of art in the 1880s, married a local mill-owner and moved up to Black Rock House, Linthwaite. In 1907, the Votes for Women campaign suddenly burst in on her isolated world. Emmeline Pankhurst spoke at the tumultuous Colne Valley by-election, deeply impressing Florence. But instead of joining the Pankhursts’ suffragettes, she opted for the constitutionalist suffragists in the NUWSS. Soon she was designing Huddersfield’s memorable
Sat 9 Sep:1130. Free Entry.
Harold Wilson statue, St. Georges Square, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire HD1 1JF
Sat 9 Sep 2017
Website:
www.heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting/event//walking-with-womens-suffrage-in-the-colne-valley
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