The Women's Freedom League, founded 1907, worked for equality between men and women from its headquarter on this site between 1914 and 1959.
WC1, High Holborn, Holborn Tower, 137
Plaque is on a corner at the back of the building.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Women's Freedom League
Split off from the Women's Social and Political Union where Emmeline Pankhurs...
London Borough of Lewisham Sir Francis Baring, Bart, MP, 1740-1810, merchant & banker, lived here, 1797-1810, presented by Baring Bro...
Emily Davies, 1830 - 1921, founder of Girton College Cambridge lived here. Greater London Council
Ambrose Godfrey, 1660 - 1741, chemist and inventor of the fire extinguisher, who lived in a house and worked at a laboratory and pharmacy...
The top of the plaque can just be seen in our photo, to the right of the left-most yellow cone. From Earsathome: Dockwra and his partner...
The plaque was laid secretly at night, near to the site of Rigby's murder. Greenwich Council feared that it would attract right wing act...
Built on green fields in 1802. Destroyed by enemy action on 11th May 1941 and re-built in 1952, architect Terence C. Page.
Patrick Blackett, 1897 - 1974, physicist and scientific advisor, lived here 1953 - 1969. English Heritage
One of the first women to qualify as a doctor, in 1885. Born Manchester. She studied abroad and in London. Once qualified she quickly started a clinic and school of midwifery in her own home at 165...
Architect. Born London. Cousin to Benjamin Disraeli. Designed some lovely squares in London: Belgrave Square, Alexander Square, Thurloe Square, Pelham Crescent and Place, Walton Place, and a numbe...
