A fundraising appeal has been launched to raise money for new green heritage plaques to celebrate the achievements of three more special Lancaster women.
Last year during Women’s History month Lancaster Civic Vision and Lancaster City Museum launched a joint campaign to identify women of Lancaster that could, and should, be remembered by having a Green Heritage Plaque erected to their memory within the City of Lancaster.
Lancaster Civic Vision already had a Green Heritage Plaque Tour of the city with some thirty-three plaques already in place, but none are to women from the area.
The first Green Heritage Plaque to a woman in Lancaster was officially unveiled to Sr. Aine Cox, Founder of the Hospice Movement, at St John’s Hospice in December 2021, and other plaques which have met the criteria and are going through the process to be erected in the near future include Emily Williamson – founder of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; Lady Noreen Murray, CBE – molecular geneticist; and Janet Raby & Beatrice Parkinson – last women lighthouse keepers at Cockersands & Plover Lighthouses.
A further three women have been identified to be remembered with a Green Heritage Plaque, and whilst we have sites for them to be placed, around £2,000 is needed to cover the costs.
They are:
Mary Fielding - Botanist and illustrator Mary Fielding (nee Simpson) was born in Lancaster in 1804
Jennie Harris - Footballer, played for Lancaster Ladies and Dick Kerr Ladies, Preston
Selina Martin - Suffragette and campaigner for women's rights movement
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