13 April 2014

Annie Kenney in Lees, Oldham

'The workplace of
ANNIE KENNEY
1879–1953
Leading suffragette, first to be
imprisoned for direct action,
with Christabel Pankhurst, 1905
 
Women gained the full vote
in 1928'

'LEES BROOK SPINNING CO
LIMITED
1886'

Lees Brook Mill
 
Annie Kenny's autobiography Memories of a Militant was published in 1924.

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