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Avenham Walks - Stop 7 - Edith Rigby

Leaving the parks behind, the walk moves into Winckley Square. A blue plaque on the wall of No. 28 marks the home of Edith Rigby, the suffragette (Stop 7). A fighter for the emancipation of women, she formed, in 1907, the Preston branch of the Women's Social and Political Union, holding the early meetings at No. 28. She made herself unpopular with her middle class neighbours as she treated maids as equals and inquired into the working conditions in other houses. She was a member of the militant branch of the suffragette movement and spent a lot of time in and out of prison.

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