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Are there any statues of women?

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janeainsworth Sat 12-Mar-16 12:52:12

Thanks Tanith.

tanith Sat 12-Mar-16 12:41:58

jane here is a list of the statues of the 'men' in Parliament Square.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_Square

janeainsworth Sat 12-Mar-16 12:20:16

There is one of a suffragrette already, Trisher, though not actually in Parliament. This is from tanith's link:

"5. Emmeline Pankhurst, Millbank, SW1
AG Walker’s bronze of Emmeline Pankhurst stands at the entrance to Victoria Tower Gardens next to the Houses of Parliament. As leader of the Suffragettes, Pankhurst engaged in militant tactics to achieve her goal of votes for women, something only fully realised in 1928 – the year she died."

Are the statues in Parliament all of MPs?

M0nica Sat 12-Mar-16 12:03:52

Edith Cavell, Queen Victoria, hundreds of them.

I am totally opposed to statues of the suffragettes. If it hadn't been for them women would have got the vote 5 - 10 years earlier. It was the suffragists that did the work. How about a statue of Millicent Fawcett?

tanith Sat 12-Mar-16 11:50:43

I knew about a statue to Violette Szabo the wartime spy on the Embankment but there are some others here in London..

now-here-this.timeout.com/2012/03/08/international-womens-day-our-top-five-statues-of-women/

Tegan Sat 12-Mar-16 11:15:32

There's a statue of Dawn Run at Cheltenham....[perhaps, if you're going to be a successful woman, better to be an equine one....]...

trisher Sat 12-Mar-16 11:13:43

Shall we not count Queen Vic? We have 2 one of which used to have a loo near it and same happened here, but the footprints were white (Newcastle) She is probably the only woman with statues everywhere!

janeainsworth Sat 12-Mar-16 11:05:47

There is a monument to Grace Darling in the churchyard at Bamburgh.
And a statue of Queen Victoria in Piccadilly in Manchester.
One year during Rag Week, students painted red footprints going to and from the nearby Public Conveniences grin

Luckygirl Sat 12-Mar-16 10:50:28

And that statue of the lady whose mum took thalidomide.

boheminan Sat 12-Mar-16 10:48:36

There's a lovely statue of Lady Godiva on her (not so white) bronze horse in Banbury but apart from her, I can't think of any more women statueshmm so petition signed...

trisher Sat 12-Mar-16 09:45:18

Link Not working try this www.change.org/p/westminster-council-put-a-statue-of-a-suffragette-in-parliament-square

trisher Sat 12-Mar-16 09:44:20

I've just signed a petition to have a statue of a suffragette in Parliament square.https://www.change.org/p/westminster-council-put-a-statue-of-a-suffragette-in-parliament-square
There are 11 statues of men there already. But then I thought how many statues of women are there anyway? I can only think of a couple. Is it unreasonable to think we could do with a few more as the woman said in Suffragette "We are half the population"! Let me know of any statues you know of- I'm counting!