Agnes Dawson

Today I walked to the pharmacy to collect some medication and while there checked whether my husband’s missing medication had been prescribed. Our lovely pharmacist checked and it had not been approved by the GP. Then I walked to the surgery where eventually the missing medication was found. It was a replacement for the same medication, but this is a higher dose. She told me three times that it could not go in a Dossett Box as though that was the reason it had not been prescribed. It will go to the pharmacy when it has been signed, maybe today or tomorrow; the doctors are very busy!!
 
So as I was out I walked past two of the four blue plaques that were put up in the village for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. They are also part of the u3a photography group’s selection for discussion in November.
 
 
Agnes Dawson (1873-1953)
Agnes trained as a teacher at Saffron Walden College. She taught in London schools and was an active member of the National Federation of Women Teachers. She was a constitutional suffragist, and campaigned in a non-militant way for votes for women.  In 1925 she resigned from her teaching post and was voted on to London County Council. In 1935, after a lot of campaigning, she successfully got the marriage ban lifted on women teachers. She retired to Newport and served as a Justice of the Peace.
 
The temperature at noon today was eighteen degrees Celsius.