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Emmeline Pankhurst

            St Peter's Square, Manchester

So good to get out and about and meet up with Eddie and Pete in town. For once we took more snaps than had cups of coffee, although we did spend more time in coffee shops than outside shooting on account of the bitterly cold conditions. Didn’t quite capture the shot I had in mind but rather pleased with how this has turned out. First new image of the year… surely, I can better the pitiful 44 uploads of last year.

A bit about the shot…
This sculpture of Emmeline Pankhurst is the first female statue in Manchester that is not of Queen Victoria.

The Moss Side-born suffragette was the overwhelming winner in a public vote three years ago to choose which woman should be immortalised in bronze, beating the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, the anti-racism campaigner Louise da-Cocodia and “Red” Ellen Wilkinson, the Labour cabinet minister and leader of the Jarrow March.

Members of the public then chose the final design, by sculptor Hazel Reeves. Her last big commission was the “cracker packer” statue honouring the lives of female biscuit factory workers in the Cumbrian city of Carlisle.
Reeves chose to portray Pankhurst in full tub-thumping mode, standing on a chair as she rallied a crowd. Helen Pankhurst, the suffragette’s great-granddaughter, was among those who unveiled the “Our Emmeline” statue on the Friday, 100 years to the day after some women got the vote for the first time in the UK.

Taken on: January 18, 2022

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Manchester

St Peter's Square

suffragette

sculpture

statue

bronze

artist

Hazel Reeves « less

Sets appears in: • Manchester

Groups appears in: • Manchester, UK • Historical places more » • Statues and Sculptures. • History is All Around Us • Salford and Manchester • Manchester Photographers • Manchester through my eyes « less

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, f/5.6, 1/100 sec, 221mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Lens:	EF70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS USM
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.01 sec (1/100)
Focal Length:	221mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 23.1 (Windows)
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