SaveDorsetHall
@SaveDorsetHall
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Help us preserve this heritage monument, the former Wimbledon home of activist and suffragette Rose Lamartine Yates. In disrepair.
Wimbledon, UK
Joined February 2021
“Dorset Hall is such an important site, rich with the history of the women’s suffrage movement and its campaigners, that it simply must be saved” @mappingsuffrage .
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by Barbara GornaI regularly drove by a wonderful old building on my commute with the words Dorset Hall etched above the doorway. The building was boarded up and in a state of disrepair.The name...
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A welcome sight! Works are under way at last on Dorset Hall where neglect has left the roof in a parlous state. Read more …
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RT @thehistoryguy: Today in 1913 Emily Wilding Davison died after colliding with the King's horse four days earlier. Here is the police rep….
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RT @EmilyMemorial: The moment Philippa Bilton, descendant of Emily, and @RoseberySchool1 Head Girls Anna and Priya unveiled the statue of s….
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RT @WimSoc: John Innes Society Spring Plant Sale 8 May from 10.00am – 12.30pm in various locations including the Coach House in Melrose Roa….
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RT @mappingsuffrage: Thanks to brill @herstorianmum we’re getting going on our suffrage map in #Liverpool with #Birkenhead #WSPU campaigner….
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RT @WimSoc: Merton Tree Warden Group- Call for Volunteers to help with watering new trees, reporting tree problems to the council, and more….
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RT @MitchamCrktGrn: Shocking derogation of @mayoroflondon & @Merton_Council's duty to protect Metropolitan Open Land with go ahead to build….
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RT @WimSoc: The refurbishment project is underway at the Museum of Wimbledon! This week their old display cabinets have been dismantled and….
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RT @mary_statue: Great piece in Elle magazine online by @KatieOMalley_ who interviewed our trustee Briony Goulden about how it feels to be….
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RT @jackieschneider: Dorset Hall, important suffragette site, is STILL open to the elements despite scaffolding appearing 3 weeks ago. What….
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RT @mappingsuffrage: The amazing Ray Strachey NUWSS campaigner, author of ‘The Cause’, Newnham graduate, women’s rights activist & ‘rammed….
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RT @womblesofficial: Please dispose of your take-out coffee cup responsibly or even better be like Great Uncle Bulgaria and use a reusable….
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RT @TheMatchgirls: Our Trustee Anna is making good progress on her virtual walk up Mount Fuji to fundraise for @TheMatchgirls is gathering….
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I am Anna Robinson, poet, writer and massively unfit trustee of the Matchgirls' Memorial Charity. I am climbing Mount Fuji in a covid safe, virtual way. It is 46 miles of hiking. I will do this...
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RT @MitchamNotes: 1808 monument in parish graveyard as ‘an awful warning’
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In the parish churchyard, near the back of the church at its eastern end, is a gravestone that tells of the death of three young children, who died after eating poisonous mushrooms. In memory of Ma…
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RT @WimSoc: Merton Action Climate Group are looking for suggestions for parklets in Merton send your suggestions of places where you think….
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Many thanks to Dr Alexandra Hughes-Johnson @Alexx_H_J for your video message about Rose Lamartine Yates of #DorsetHall. Watch / listen for yourself on our website here:
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RT @CWichbold: Census Day 1911: a neat & tidy protest from Mary Howey #WSPU #suffragette, Cradley, #Herefordshire. Check out the Infirmity….
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RT @ThisisRiverside: Listen back to this week's Riverside Reports, with the latest on the Sarah Everard investigation, the first inhouse NH….
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RT @WimSoc: Our Chairman's Covid walk today took in Dorset Hall, the former Wimbledon home of activist and suffragette Rose Lamartine Yates….
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Listen in to @ThisisRiverside radio this evening FRIDAY between 6&7pm to hear an interview with our founder @gorna_barbara taking about her mission to save #DorsetHall 🎧.
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