Enamel plaque dedicated to the Brackenbury family

Ernestine Mills, an enamellist and artist associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement, made this plaque to commemorate the contribution of Hilda, Georgina and Marie Brackenbury to the suffragette campaign. At the height of the suffragette campaign the Brackenburys cared for prisoners temporarily released under the Prisoner's Temporary Discharge for Ill Health Act. Their home provided a refuge where suffragettes, weakened by hunger-strike, could recuperate before being sent back to prison. The Act was referred to by the suffragettes as the 'Cat and Mouse Act' and the Brackenbury house at 2 Campden Hill Square in Holland Park became known as Mouse Castle.

The central enamelled plaque depicts a woman in an imagined wilderness breaking free from her chains walking towards the sunlit horizon. This was a popular symbol of the suffragette movement and symbolised women's freedom gained from enfranchisement.

Georgina & Marie also had a brother Richard who emigrated to Wyoming, USA in the 1880s. He married and had 5 sons and retired to La Jolla, California.