Plaque to commemorate the location of the headquarters of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU)

The inscription on the plaque reads: “Here were the headquarters of THE WOMEN’S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION KNOWN AS “THE SUFFRAGETTES” LED BY EMMELINE AND CHRISTABEL PANKHURST Here also lived EMMELINE PETHICK-LAWRENCE WHO, WITH HER HUSBAND PLAYED AN INVALUBALE PART IN BUILDING UP THE ORGANISATION AND EDITED “VOTES FOR WOMEN””.