WEARING sashes, a group of young women recreated a photo of the day leading suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst visited the North-East.
The women, who are work shadowing senior members of staff at Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council this week, gathered at Redcar Station on International Women's Day to launch this year's Inspiring Women Awards in the borough.
The girls were also recognising the centenary of some women gaining the right to vote as they posed at Redcar Station, where Pankhurst posed for a similar picture during her visit to the town in 1909. Ellie McMullen, Jess Peters, and Ellie Chapman from St Peter’s Voluntary Academy, and Gabrielle Reid and Hannah Richmond from Freebrough Academy, are hoping to encourage people to nominate their local heroines for the awards. Other pupils from across Redcar and Cleveland are also shadowing local leading women such as Anna Turley, MP for Redcar, Julie Donaldson, Presenter at Zetland FM, and Claire Wordsworth, Senior Communications Business Partner at SABIC.
The Inspiring Women awards ceremony takes place on Friday June 15 at Redcar & Cleveland Leisure and Community Heart. To nominate someone visit: www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/InspiringWomen2018
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