Plaque

East London Federation of the Suffragettes

Inscription

Site of 400 Old Ford Road
East London Federation of the Suffragettes' Women's Hall and Cost Price Restaurant. Sylvia Pankhurst & Norah Smyth lived here from 1914 - 1924.
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Site: Sylvia Pankhurst and east end suffragists (2 memorials)

E3, Old Ford Road, Lord Morpeth pub

Roman Road London has a splendid photo of 'Local East End Suffragettes outside the Lord Morpeth Public House'.  It shows about 40 women and, from the clothes, we'd date it to the 1950s.

We published this plaque in 2015 when the wall was plain old brick. In 2018 this magnificent mural appeared. The plaque is still there, but somewhat lost.

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
East London Federation of the Suffragettes

Subjects commemorated i

Suffragettes' Women's Hall

This 1893 map (extract here) shows a hall, Salisbury Hall, beside the pub (Mo...

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East London Federation of the Suffragettes

Formed by Sylvia Pankhurst as a breakaway group from the Women’s Social and P...

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Norah Lyle-Smyth, Norah Smyth

Painter, sculptor, photographer and suffragette. Born Norah Veronica Lyle-Smy...

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Sylvia Pankhurst

Born in Manchester as Estelle Sylvia, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst.  Traine...

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This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
East London Federation of the Suffragettes

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Suffrage for women - 1918

Suffrage for women - 1918

Sylvia is represented a number of times in the mural. The image we have chose...

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