Comments on: East End Suffragette Map

By: royarber

royarber — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 15:53:39 +0000

Can anyone verify that the postcard photo of Old Ford Road just off Ducketts Bridge is correct? I accept that the road layout seems accureate, but I lived in Roman Road soon after WWII and I remember none of the shops or houses shown here, nor the pub on the left. I have tried to trace the name of the pub on the left but without success.

By: Anne Johnson

Anne Johnson — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 20:51:37 +0000

Thank you for this information. My maternal grandmother Rose Doughty was a working class woman, mother of nine children she was from Alma Street, Hoxton. I understand she took part in the suffrage movement with her children always glad of the tea after any protest walk. sadly she died before I was born would love to find out more about what she did.

By: deb scott

deb scott — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 20:31:35 +0000

I would love to hear more from Lizzie Lloyd. Her cousin Jessie Payne was crucial to Sylvia P’s recovery and her story should be included in the current exhibition at Bancroft Rd Library. I urge her to get in touch with me, you, the librarian or the exhibition organisers!

By: Lizzie Lloyd

Lizzie Lloyd — Thu, 19 May 2016 20:01:13 +0000

Wonderful to read all this about the WLFS. My first cousin (thrice removed) was Jessie Payne, of whom my family is very proud. Sylvia Pankhurst lived with her and her husband (my mum’s ‘uncle Jim’) at 28 Old Ford Road. We have photos and stories handed down by my grandmother and mother about Jessie’s suffragette activities and her visits to Leicester (my great-grandfather, her uncle, but so close in age they were brought up as brother and sister had moved to Leicester) where she would complain about the cobbled streets hurting her bunions!!

By: Michelle Ballard

Michelle Ballard — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 22:11:18 +0000

I was so glad to have come across this site. My 2x Great Aunt, Mrs. Jane Savoy (pseudonym Mrs. Hughes, as her husband didn’t want his name in the papers) was a suffragette and one of the six women elected by the ELFS to form the deputation to PM Asquith in June 1914. As depicted in the YouTube video ‘Shoulder to Shoulder’, she was the brush maker who spoke first to Asquith. She lived in St. Stephen’s Road and was a close friend and neighbour to both George Lansbury and Sylvia Pankhurst. My Great Grandmother lived a door away to Sylvia’s three storey suffragette house in Old Ford Road and my whole family in Bow attended the many suffragette rallies. We have so much to thank these women for and I am so proud of my family’s involvement in the fight for women’s rights.

By: gkbowood

gkbowood — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:30:47 +0000

This really brings it home to me; all the times I have skipped placing a vote (for a myriad of reasons) when all these women made it possible to even have that CHOICE! Thanks for sharing this important history.

By: Charlie H.

Charlie H. — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:58:06 +0000

Fascinating read, thankyou! Hopefully wandering those streets again soon!x

By: Caroline Bottomley

Caroline Bottomley — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 09:21:41 +0000

And hilarious that daft cat pictures were alive and well with the Edwardians

By: Erica W.

Erica W. — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 14:18:55 +0000

This is so interesting. Thank you for keeping this history alive and bringing it to the attention of people like me who never knew about this.

By: Hilary

Hilary — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 13:58:41 +0000

George Lansbury was actress Angela Lansbury’s grandfather,born in Suffolk.