Tag: Colchester
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Hearing Voices – Some Thoughts on Suffrage
My first home was 47 North Hill, Colchester, Essex. Eighty-seven years before I arrived there, over the road, at number 12, the women of Colchester had organised themselves to send the first ever suffragette petition to Parliament. Just thirty-two years before my birth, the Conservative government had passed the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise)…
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George William Manley: Grandpa
My maternal grandfather was 106 years old when he died and had been living at Stisted Hall, near Braintree in Essex (UK). Until the end, he was still sharp and bright and in about as good a physical state as it was possible to be at his age. As you might imagine, and as I…
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