Annie McCall

I was on my way by bus from the Old Kent Road to Trafalgar Square this morning when I heard that the bus was being diverted because of a TUC march and demonstration.

So I got off at Lambeth North to take the tube instead.

As I did so, I spotted a series of mosaic plaques on the walls of Morley College.

They turned out to be celebrating ground-breaking local women. Annie McCall (1859-1949) was one of the earliest women to qualify as a doctor in 1885. She specialised in midwifery and established her own maternity hospital, raising the standards of post-natal care and dramatically reducing the death rates among the mothers and babies in here care.

There is more about her here.