Pank-a Squith

This morning I went bowling in the park at Oswestry. Despite playing in the drizzle we enjoyed the games and had lots of laughs as usual.

I then crossed the road to the Memorial Hall to see the "Wall of Women" which is a display of 101 women with a connection to Oswestry, one for each year since women got the vote.  There was an A3 poster for each woman giving an insight into their lives. There were historical women from Guinevere who was supposed to have been born on Old Oswestry Hillfort, to women alive today that have been nominated for something achieved. My next door neighbour was on the wall for her services to nursing.  Extra photo shows some of the display.

They are trying to get enough for a future wall of 1001 women and were asking for nominations. I nominated my late mother for her researches into local and family history including writing books of her life and times, also for a lifetime of being a chapel organist.

There was also a huge and fascinating display of artefacts (original and reproductions) from the Suffragettes. The granddaughter of a suffragette was there talking to visitors about her grandmother's experiences.

I loved this (replica) game called Pank-a-Squith. It's a snakes and ladders type game first brought out in 1919 and depicts the struggle for Votes for Women in a humorous way.  It is Emmeline Pankhurst versus Herbert Asquith the Prime Minister.  One of the squares says 

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 Any player landing on this space must send a penny to the Suffragette funds.

I hope that they had plenty of pennies - we owe them a huge debt.