A pararsol parade in Brighton of Suffragettes selling The Suffragette weekly newspaper, April, 1914. From left to right are: Miss Reid, Mrs Goodier, Miss Gye, Mrs Brandon, Miss Rae, Mrs Bouvier. Parasol parades were a regular feature of the union's sales drives to increase its newspaper circulation in the summer months. Brighton and Hove was one of the first WSPU branches, founded in may 1907.