The suffragette is only the second statue of a woman in the city after Queen VictoriaThousands of people turned out in the freezing cold on Friday to welcome home Emmeline Pankhurst – the first female statue in Manchester that isn’t Queen Victoria.The Moss Side-born suffragette was the overwhelming winner in a public vote three years ago to choose which woman should be immortalised in bronze, beating Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, anti-racism campaigner Louise da-Cocodia and “Red” Ellen Wilkinson, Labour cabinet minister and leader of the Jarrow March. Continue reading…
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