Emmeline Pankhurst

[urmston]

Too right. There's a statue of Emmeline, her mother, by the Houses of Parliament. We were having a team event when I worked down in Westminster for a Govt Ministry and part of it was a treasure hunt. One of the items was to get a photograph of a gun and we ended up chatting to one of the armed policemen who was stood by the statue. Somehow we got talking about Manchester and he said "I'm from Manchester" and it turned out he was a Blue as well. So we were chatting about City and he let us take a picture of his Heckler & Koch (ooh err missus).

They lived opposite the MRI and the girls went to Manchester High School for Girls so it'd be nice if the statue went in Platt Fields. She had a son, Richard, who is still very much alive and in his late eighties now.

Richard is her grandson, born in 1927, a few months before Emmeline died.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Before they stick another statue up in Manchester, they should bring back Cromwell's first, shift Alberts and stick it there !

That needs fixing, he used to be in prime location right outside Exchange Station near to the Cathedral.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

That needs fixing, he used to be in prime location right outside Exchange Station near to the Cathedral.

It is said that statute is the reason why Queen Victoria refused to come to Manchester and officially open Manchester Town Hall....

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Anna Connell should have been on the shortlist not some Victorian bra burner.

 

[urban genie]

Fitting that she was chosen a women who effected the future and should have had a statue a long time ago, though I voted for Ellen Wilkinson myself, a mancunian woman who put great effort into this city and should be more celebrated. Where is the statue going anyway

 

[Ancient Citizen]

It is said that statute is the reason why Queen Victoria refused to come to Manchester and officially open Manchester Town Hall....

Regicide, religious fruitcake, tyrant who banned Chrimbo, named himself 'Lord Protector' in effect traducing parliament,
and becoming king in all but name, was thoroughly detested by most of the populace, who clamoured for the return of Charlie the second,
loathed in Ireland, etc; etc;

 

[Tanzeylee]

Regicide, religious fruitcake, tyrant who banned Chrimbo, named himself 'Lord Protector' in effect traducing parliament,
and becoming king in all but name, was thoroughly detested by most of the populace, who clamoured for the return of Charlie the second,
loathed in Ireland, etc; etc;

What was his username on here.

 

[yankcitizen76]

What was his username on here.

Bad dum pum tss!

 

[mad4city]

Regicide, religious fruitcake, tyrant who banned Chrimbo, named himself 'Lord Protector' in effect traducing parliament,
and becoming king in all but name, was thoroughly detested by most of the populace, who clamoured for the return of Charlie the second,
loathed in Ireland, etc; etc;

Yep, had he been a figure in any other country's history, the British would despise his actions. As it stands, a good number try to rationalise (indeed, lionise) them. His very existence remains a sleight upon human, let alone British, history.





...and he had warts!

 

[remember arthur mann]

That needs fixing, he used to be in prime location right outside Exchange Station near to the Cathedral.

Salford bridge close by, main location of the Siege of Manchester, one of the first conflicts of the English Civil War.