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Peace
Trail New Plaques
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Miriam Lord, Head of Bradford’s first Open Air Nursery School.
In July 2007, a plaque commemorating her achievement was unveiled
on the gatepost of Lilycroft School. Behind this Primary School, the
original Nursery School building is still in use. One of the school’s
first pupils, eighty-seven year old Wilfred Jones, was present at
the event. (see site 29) |
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World War 1 Women’s Peace March.
In September 2007, the march of 3000 women and sympathisers from the
Bradford Women’s Humanity League, protesting about the shameful
slaughter of war, was commemorated by the unveiling of a plaque on
the wall of the former Textile Hall in Westgate, ninety years to the
day after the event, (see site 11) |
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Florence White, National Spinsters’ Pensions Association.
In November 2007, a plaque was unveiled to this almost forgotten local
woman campaigner from 1930’s, who set up the NSPA and fought
for women to be able to access their pensions at 55. She lived to
draw her pension at sixty, following the 1940 Act of Parliament reducing
the pensionable age for women from 65. The plaque is on the wall of
The Mechanics Institute Library in Kirkgate. Miss White held many
of her campaign meetings at The Bradford Mechanics Institute. Present
at the unveiling was Anne Pearson, whose great aunts, Winifred and
Hilda Stephenson, were members of the same movement. She brought with
her a fascinating scrapbook of NSPA activity. (see
site 9) |
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Norman Angell, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933. He
was MP for Bradford North from 1929 – 1931. This plaque has still
to be sited. It is awaiting a Council decision on the proposed Park
at the Heart project for Bradford’s Centenary Square and a peace
garden associated with this. It is hoped that it can be unveiled in
2008. (see site 26) |
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