Our next monthly meeting on Tuesday November 8th is a talk about Caroline Ganley, a leading political figure in Battersea from the 1910s to the 1960s.

Come and hear Sue Demont (Battersea Society) speak about her life and times.

“Caroline Ganley (1879 – 1966) was the ultimate multi-tasker long before the term was invented.  A hard-up mother of three who left school aged 14, she went on to become one of the first female magistrates in Britain, the first female President of the London Co-operative Society, and Battersea’s first woman MP. Her achievements were acknowledged during her lifetime, but her remarkable story is strikingly absent from the history books of the 20th century.  Drawing on Ganley’s own unpublished memoir, this short book is a first step toward reclaiming that story. “

You can order Sue Demont’s book here.

The meeting is at our usual venue: United Reformed Church, Rookstone Road, Tooting, SW17 9NQ.

(Tooting Broadway Tube, 280 264 57 270 355 44 77 333 G1 buses)