international Womens day
8th march 2021
celebrating the lives of women represented in the sankey Family PHOTOGRAPHIC collection.
As part of international women’s day we want to celebrate and highlight the lives of women who are represented in the Sankey Photographic Collection, directly or indirectly.
We’ve written about a photographic portrait, a place they called home, or an area in which they lived. The women we have chosen to write about, or an image of a place they may have had a connection with, has allowed us to develop a new understanding of the women workers, the philanthropists and the mothers who worked in and around a thriving industrial town. In some cases you will see that much of their story is gleaned from what is in the historical records – i.e. the census records or newspapers of the time – as opposed to what the woman or woman said in their own words. This reflects the fact that many working class women’s histories have been hugely unrepresented in our historical record.
If you want to gain a first hand account into the lives of women in Barrow in the early 20th Century we recommended that you visit the Elizabeth Roberts Working Class Oral History Archive.
We thank all the women who are taking part in the Seeing the North With Sankey Project for taking the time to share their feelings, thoughts or research about a woman or women they have found interesting, inspirational, knew or wanted to shine more of a light upon! Thanks also to the men who are supportive of this work.
Winfred Langton – campaigner
1909 – 2003
Charlotte Davies
PEGGY BRAITHWAITE – Lighthouse keeper
1919 – 1996
RACHEL CAPOVILA
ISABELLA SANKEY
1840 – 1917
Julia Parks
NellA LAST – diary writer
1889 – 1968
enid milligan
Mary Cicely Fair
1874 – 1955
Lynn Belither
THE GIRL IN THE MIDDLE
Early 1900’s
Jean McSORLEY
paper factory workers
Early 20TH CENTURY
SUSAN BENSON
WORLD WAR ONE MUNITION WORKERS
1916 – 1918
Wendy Kolbe
Dorothee pullinger and the munition workers
1916 – 1918
Wendy Kolbe
Munition workers football team
1916 – 1918
Vanessa Allen
SELINA MARTIN – SUFFRAGETTE
1882 – 1972
WENDY KOLBE
ELIZABETH GREW – SUFFRAGETTE
Date of birth and death unknown
Dr Peter Schofield