Listen in to Riverside Radio radio this evening FRIDAY between 6&7pm to hear an interview with our founder barbara gorna taking about her mission to save #DorsetHall 🎧

Our Chairman's Covid walk today took in Dorset Hall, the former Wimbledon home of activist and suffragette Rose Lamartine Yates. Good to see repairs to roof have started SaveDorsetHall

Listen back to this week's Riverside Reports, with the latest on the Sarah Everard investigation, the first inhouse NHS Test and Trace scheme, #IWD2021 and the campaign to save Dorset Hall, plus more. Presented by Mesgana Sintayehu and Jonathan Cox. mixcloud.com/riversideradio…

Census Day 1911: a neat & tidy protest from Mary Howey #WSPU #suffragette, Cradley, #Herefordshire. Check out the Infirmity column. Mary's mother Gertrude & sister Elsie who were also #suffragettes are nowhere to be seen.... Mapping Women's Suffrage

Many thanks to Dr Alexandra Hughes-Johnson Dr Alexandra Hughes-Johnson for your video message about Rose Lamartine Yates of #DorsetHall. Watch / listen for yourself on our website here: dorsethall.org

Please dispose of your take-out coffee cup responsibly or even better be like Great Uncle Bulgaria and use a reusable cup or mug. - Wellington #KeepBritainTidy

Our Trustee Anna is making good progress on her virtual walk up Mount Fuji to fundraise for The Matchgirls Memorial is gathering pace now. Still a lot of walking between now and Easter to finish off but she is getting there - sponsor if you can - givey.com/annasmountfuji… Thank you

1808 monument in parish graveyard as ‘an awful warning’ mitchamhistorynotes.com/2021/03/24/180…

Merton Action Climate Group are looking for suggestions for parklets in Merton send your suggestions of places where you think a public green space would enhance the area to [email protected]

The amazing Ray Strachey NUWSS campaigner, author of ‘The Cause’, Newnham graduate, women’s rights activist & ‘rammed earth cottage’ builder (phew!) is on our map in Sussex with big thanks to Pheebs with fab images National Portrait Gallery

Great piece in Elle magazine online by @KatieOMalley_ who interviewed our trustee Briony Goulden about how it feels to be related to Emmeline Pankhurst and Mary Clarke, the forgotten sister who was the first to die for women’s right to vote. elle.com/uk/life-and-cu…

Dorset Hall, important suffragette site, is STILL open to the elements despite scaffolding appearing 3 weeks ago. What are you doing Clarion Housing Group ? Rose Lamartine legacy is rotting in front of our eyes. You have a responsibility to Merton #DeedsNotWords

The refurbishment project is underway at the Museum of Wimbledon! This week their old display cabinets have been dismantled and the room stripped

Merton Tree Warden Group- Call for Volunteers to help with watering new trees, reporting tree problems to the council, and more. If you would like to get involved in the group please email [email protected]

Thanks to brill theherstorianmum we’re getting going on our suffrage map in #Liverpool with #Birkenhead #WSPU campaigner in 1911 Florence Barry, daughter of a Turkish sultana merchant & later champion of the Catholic Women’s Suffrage Society #Liverpoolhistory Liverpool1207

Shocking derogation of @mayoroflondon & Merton Council's duty to protect Metropolitan Open Land with go ahead to build block of 77 flats on Imperial Fields described by Merton Council's Design Officer as nothing more than “an office block in a car park" planning.merton.gov.uk/MVM.DMS/Planni…

John Innes Society Spring Plant Sale 8 May from 10.00am – 12.30pm in various locations including the Coach House in Melrose Road. Further details on their website johninnessociety.org.uk//spring-plant-….

The moment Philippa Bilton, descendant of Emily, and Rosebery School Head Girls Anna and Priya unveiled the statue of suffragette Emily Wilding Davison in Epsom

Today in 1913 Emily Wilding Davison died after colliding with the King's horse four days earlier. Here is the police report in the The National Archives

A welcome sight! Works are under way at last on Dorset Hall where neglect has left the roof in a parlous state. Read more …dorsethall.org/2021/09/12/dor…