Emmeline Pankhurst Statue
Bronze suffragette leader standing on a chair, facing the hall where militant protest began.
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This guide to the Emmeline Pankhurst statue in Manchester begins on an October evening in nineteen oh five, when Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney walked into a Liberal election meeting with one question and a banner hidden from view. It follows them from that hall to a police court and Strangeways, and asks why the bronze above you points the way it does. Stand facing the statue's gaze across St Peter's Square as you listen.
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