I871 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Robert Lowe, proposed a tax on matches. The Bryant and May workers, mainly girls, realised this threatened their jobs and marched in protest on the House of Commons on 24 April 1871. The tax was never imposed. Bryant and May, who must have, at the very least, sanctioned the workers absence during the march, erected a fountain to celebrate.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Match tax abandoned
Commemorated ati
Bryant & May Testimonial fountain - lost
This elaborate fountain was commissioned by Bryant and May to celebrate the a...
Bryant & May Testimonial fountain - plaque
This plaque is a rarity: a memorial to a memorial! The site of the fountain ...
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Lieutenant-General Charles Fleetwood
Fought on the anti-royalist side in the Civil War. In 1652 he married for the second time to Bridget, Cromwell's daughter and widow of Henry Ireton. That same year he was appointed Lord Deputy of I...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Pioneer Women Campaigners
The plaque capitalises this as if it was a formal group but we can find no reference to it on the interweb.
1 memorial
Jennie M. Elias
Chairman of the Trustees of the President Reagan Memorial Fund Trust U.K. The picture shows her with Thatcher.
1 memorial
Mrs Joyce Carruthers Nash, Deputy
Commoner on the City Lands & Bridge House Estates Committee, 1994.
1 memorial