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Saved from demolition in 1979, this Georgian house is where the remarkable Emmeline Pankhurst brought up her daughters Sylvia, Christabel and Adela, all active Suffragettes. She founded the militant Women's Social and Political Union here in 1903.
Today, the Pankhurst Centre functions on two levels: as a women-only space for workshops, and as a bookshop and exhibition room (men admitted) recreating Pankhurst's parlour.
Pankhurst Centre details
Chorlton-on-Medlock,
M13 9WP
Area Oxford Road
Transport Bus 15, 16, 41-44, 46-48, 50, 111, 113, 140-143
Telephone 161 273 5673
Open 10am-4pm Mon-Thur
Admission free
Pankhurst Centre map
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The Pankhurst Centre - One of the worst places to visit in Manchester. My first crime in entering was that I was a male, my second was on correcting a guide that the founder of the Womens Social & Political Union (1906) was not 'Emily' Pankhurst but 'Emmeline', my third crime was to comment that men played a considerable part in the Suffragette movement (Pankhurst's husband Richard, Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, Keir Hardie, George Lansbury etc), my fourth crime was that my great aunt Ethel was a suffragette and perhaps I had too much insider information. Not going back there.
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