Born Julia Sullivan in Limehouse, married John Scurr in 1900. Politically active, campaigning for working women, the unemployed, women's suffrage. 1919 elected to Poplar Borough Council and was imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest. Mayor of Poplar 1923-4.
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Julia Scurr
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Fawcett frieze - 35, Scurr
Scurr's date of birth is here given as 1873, while the ODNB, for example, giv...
Poplar Rate Rebels mural - 1
The mural refers to "30 councillors" but actually names only 29. The count o...
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Time and Talents
Community group. It originated with a group of committed Christian women who deplored the waste and futility of the protected lives of the majority of young girls who were only expected to be decor...
1 memorial
Mary Gawthorpe
Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe was a suffragette, socialist, trade unionist and editor. Women’s Labour League then Women's Social and Political Union. Co-founder of radical newspaper The Freewoman. She was...
1 memorial
Priss Fotheringham
Some details of Priss's sorry life are given at HistoryWeird: Born in Scotland, she was in London by 1656 and had married Edmund Fotheringham. "In the late 1650s Priss took up residence in a taver...
1 memorial
Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Intellectual, political leader, activist and writer. Born Suffolk and brought up at Snape where her family owned the maltings. Pioneer of the women's suffrage movement but she advocated a non-viole...
6 memorials
Emily Wilberforce
In 1915 as Central President of the Mothers' Union she initiated the idea of a dedicated building which resulted in the opening of Mary Sumner House in 1925. She resigned as President in 1919. Bo...
1 memorial
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Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake
WC1, Tavistock Square Gardens
There are actually 2 busts (identical we think): one facing into the square and one facing out on the traffic.
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Regent Street - first cinema in Britain
W1, Regent Street, 309, University of Westminster
The Lumières' friend, Felicien Trewey, a French music hall entertainer already popular in London, brought the Lumière Cinématographe mach...
2 subjects commemorated
1 memorial
Alfred Pirrie Middleton
Assistant Electrician on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above B...
1 memorial
Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group
Founded to focus attention on the historic environment of the borough and to record, preserve and enhance its historic buildings.
16 memorials
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