Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds

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Captain Thompson did the first bit ok, but then killed the guards protecting the booty and headed the other way - straight for the Cocos Islands, roughly half way between Australia and Sri Lanka. There he buried the treasure, including, possibly, golden birds, which have never been found. Lots of people have looked for the treasure, but no one admits to having found it. Etta Lemon died in a Redhill nursing home, Annandale, in 1953, and is buried with her husband in St Mary’s, Reigate. Their gravestone leans emphatically to the right.

The next day, the wind was almost at hurricane force, but despite the discomfort this caused those in armour, Sir Ging was positively cheerful, and it was his tuneful whistling which roused the group. KING ARTHUR: I want to be civilised about this, and learn your story, so please sit in this chair and tell me all about it. The plaque was bought via a Crowdfunding campaign led by the Friends of Fletcher Moss Park and Parsonage Gardens. Today’s ‘woke’ generation of environmental activists, signing online petitions to protect vanishing species or dwindling habitats, might be surprised to discover that campaigns such as these owe their traction to the long and arduous road travelled by a handful of pioneering Victorian women.DOCTOR: Nothing at all. We’re just like last week’s curry … merely passing through. We’re on our way to Bushy Park where my friend has a date with destiny. The distraction of Julie cleaning the unfortunate spillage allowed the doctor and Winfield to turn the conversation to the failing works of Mr. Shakespeare.

Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather: Fashion, Fury and Feminism – Women’s Fight for Change by Tessa Boase is published by Aurum Press. KING ARTHUR: If you can indeed prove that you know about me, then I might believe you, and look on you with leniency. The other half of the story follows the suffrage movement, especially Mrs Pankhurst’s militant suffragettes who used fashion to further their cause – whether through their symbolic colour code, their expensive dresses used to denote respectability, or their penchant for a nice feathered hat…

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Boase, Tessa (2021). Etta Lemon: The Woman Who Saved the Birds. London: Aurum. ISBN 978-0-7112-6338-3. (Originally published as Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather, 2018) KING ARTHUR: You have proved yourself, doctor. I free you and your companion, but before you go, see if you can aid me with one more problem. Can either of you suggest a way in which I can maintain the loyalty of my knights, develop them, and keep things running smoothly? For example: The house at the “pineapple gate” entrance to Priory Park was built for Lady Somerset as the dowager house when she moved out of the Priory to give her son and his family free rein there.

The Great Crested Grebe was being hunted almost to the point of extinction when Emily Williamson started campaigning (Image: PA) Workhouses were institutions where people who could not support themselves could go for assistance and employment. As well as being altruistic, they helped to control the movement of labour. They were paid for by a tax in each parish on landowners. In 1723 the Workhouse Test Act specified that anyone wanting help had to enter a workhouse and undertake a set amount of work. In the 25 years after the act was passed over 600 workhouses were built in Britain. This included, in 1730, Reigate Borough’s workhouse in Park Lane, and Reigate Foreign’s workhouse at Shaw’s Corner, or Gander’s Hatch as it was known then. Her 30-year campaign required stamina, single-mindedness, and endlessly evolving tactics over a period of hurtling social change for women. The story of the Plumage Bill is also the story of the emerging eco feminist. DOCTOR: I am the doctor, and I appear to have got a little lost. What can you tell me about the king’s wood? Frank Lemon died suddenly in April 1935, aged 76, and Etta took over his role as honorary secretary. [27] When the secretary of the RSPB, Linda Gardiner, retired in 1935, there was a proposal to replace her with a man, apparently to give the society greater acceptability. This idea was opposed by the two women assistant secretaries Beatrice Solly and Lemon's niece Phyllis Barclay-Smith. Lemon did not support the women assistants' plea for gender equality, and when they threatened to resign, she accepted their resignations, and did not give their names when she mentioned their departure in the society's magazine. [2] [28]

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WINFIELD: I’m to clean my hands on a bird? [he reached out, but found to his surprise that it was not a bird, but a sheet of cloth which had been folded to an avian shape. Well, not quite. She opposed women’s suffrage and did not believe they should vote in general elections. Anti-Suffrage These were all unveiled in the early 1920s, and like many contemporary inscriptions they date the war as 1914-1919. Technically, Britain remained at war with Germany until the Treaty of Versailles was signed in the summer of 1919.

ACTOR: Ah, two gentlemen in coronas. Well met, I say. I apologise for my appearance – as you see, I wear my tart on my sleeve. I am William ‘Wat’ Shakespeare. But until my book Etta Lemon was published,Hannah Lemon hadheardnothingabouther great, great, greataunt, thepioneeringeco activist.To be fair,hardly anybodyhad.Now thatHannah isaware of the connection,she’smusingon Etta’s family legacy.Does a passion for nature pass through the generations?In the case ofRSPB founder Emily Williamson, thishas turned out to be the case.Emily’s great, great niece, Dr Melissa Bateson, is astarlingscientist.What about Hannah? Riveting, dextrously told, vividly imagined, shrewdly analysed. Tessa Boase has worked a little bit of magic here in bringing these [women] to life, and championing the cause of the unsung'

Once the vote was won, civic work didn’t end for Nellie, but found a new direction; she co-founded the Surrey County Federation of Women’s Institutes in 1918, serving as its president from 1919-1929. She was the first Treasurer of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes. Full of fascinating historical detail and colourful characters. A great story of pioneering conservation, beautifully told' The book is actually only half about Etta Lemon, a woman who felt passionately that feathers/whole birds shouldn’t be used to decorate hats and who was central to the founding of the RSPB. She took on the trend for ‘murderous millinery’ and made it her life’s work – and good on her! Soon, the place was empty except for a solitary, downcast figure on the stage. A half-eaten apple pie was affixed to the arm of his doublet [doublet: a small dub] from where it had been thrown. Across the road from Hethersett was Little Gatton, with its coach house and garages. It was here that Malcolm Campbell lived until his death in 1948. It was also here that Reigate and Banstead’s ‘List of Buildings of Architectural and Historic Interest’ tells us that Little Gatton’s interior contains panelling from the Mauritania, and the Coach House is where he built one of his “Bluebird” record breaking boats. Hopefully he didn’t run the engine too much to disturb Helena and other neighbours.