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Manningham Lane |
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Lane was the route of the anti-Iraq War demonstration on
Saturday, January 18th 2003. This was organised by the Stop
the War coalition of groups. Starting in Lister Park,
some 3,000 people took part, young and old, male and female, a multiracial
and multifaith group. They walked along the main road towards the
city, exchanged waves with residents along the way, and arrived at
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was a peaceful and very positive event that brought people from many
backgrounds closer together. It demonstrated to people in the city
and in the country at large that Bradfordians could make a positive
and peaceful statement about themselves and their city. |
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marched past Valley Parade football ground, site of
the Bradford City Fire (see
site 01). |
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contrast, a year and a half earlier, on the first anniversary of the
2001 disturbances, a proposed peace march had been banned. |
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Margaret McMillan |
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Margaret
McMillan (1860 - 1931) was invited to Bradford in 1893
to help the newly formed Independent Labour Party to encourage the
involvement of working men and women in the city's political life.
She was not averse to speaking on street corners. |
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lived with her sister Rachel
at 49, Hanover Square, off Manningham Lane towards the
city centre end (1883 - 1902). A blue plaque marks the house and says:
'All children are mine'; Margaret McMillan
was a champion of children. |
In
1894, she was elected to the Bradford School Board
with a mandate to fight 'the battle of the slum child'. It
was due to her that the Medical Officer of Health carried out the
country's first medical inspections on children. These showed up
the scourge of undernourishment. She worked with Fred
Jowett (see
site 14) to persuade the Council
to take some responsibility for feeding the children, to supplement
the voluntary efforts of the Cinderella Club. Through her
influence, Green Lane School in Manningham was the first school
to set up a central school meals depot. The kitchen supplied meals
to dining centres in the poorest parts of the town. Jonathan
Priestley, J. B. Priestley's father, was headmaster
of the school at the time and could be seen serving meals. She pressed
for school swimming pools after the Council refused the School Board's
request to use the public baths for children. The first swimming
pool in the country was opened in 1898 at Wapping Road School.
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wore herself out, left Bradford and moved to Kent. Soon she and her
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in London, establishing the first school clinic in Bow (1908), a nursery
school in Deptford, then an open-air nursery and training centre at
Peckham (1914). Margaret
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