COMMEMORATING People, Events, and Places - in Newcastle and the North East

[Ken O'Heed]

Further to my 2 posts immediately above these 2 scanned copies of Sopie McCoid article from page 30 of 29/04/13 edition of The Chronicle ( hosted on Photobucket)

Gives more on the story of Christopher Allan





KEN

[Newcastle Historian]

Lottery gives £90,000 to help Morpeth commemorate
the Emily Davison Centenary.
by David Black, The Journal, May 6th 2013


The funeral of suffragette Emily Davison in 1913

LOTTERY CASH will help pay for a programme of events marking the centenary of the death of suffragette Emily Davison in the town where she was laid to rest. A Heritage Lottery grant of almost £90,000 has been awarded to a special working group in Morpeth, Northumberland where the renowned women’s rights campaigner is buried in St Mary’s Churchyard. The cash will support this summer’s Emily Inspires! programme of events, exhibitions, workshops and community activities, marking the 100th anniversary of her death in June 1913.

The lottery funding will go towards a series of summer events and activities including: A parade of 100 women cyclists into Morpeth from Longhorsley, where Emily’s mother lived, and a commemorative procession retracing the journey of her coffin from the town’s railway station to the churchyard. A memorial service in St Mary’s Church with speeches by Baroness Helena Kennedy QC and Eleanor Mills, associate editor of the Sunday Times. Activities by young people at Beamish and Woodhorn museums to research, re-enact and debate the life and legacy of Emily, together with similar work in Newcastle.

There will also be a series of exhibitions, including one featuring the suffragette scarf believed to have been worn by Emily at Epsom on the day she suffered her fatal injuries. She died in hospital four days after running out in front of King George V’s horse, Anmer, in the 1913 Derby. Already, a commemorative plaque has been unveiled at Tattenham Corner on the Epsom Downs racecourse and a new play inspired by Emily’s life – To Freedom’s Cause – will be premiered in Morpeth next month.

“Emily left a legacy that is still as relevant today as it was at the time of her death and we’re delighted to have the support of the Heritage Lottery.” Full details of Emily Inspires! can be found at http://emilyinspires.co.uk/

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Previous information about EMILY DAVISON on this forum . . .

Davison - Emily Wilding Davison, Morpeth Suffragette
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpo...&postcount=712

[growly grace]

What a shocking and unnecessary waste of money.

[alf stone]

Workers Memorial Day Saltwell Park 28th. April. I hadn't realised the significance of this event when I took these photographs.



I just wondered at the brass band playing but not in the bandstand:



Update: Are you on that first picture Ken?