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When we had a woman Labour MP

... woman Labour MP DOES ANYONE know who Northampton’s only female Labour MP was? - Lillian Whitehead, Semilong. ©® She was Margaret Bondfield, born in 1873 and first elected Labour MP for Northampton in 1923. She was appointed to be Parliamentary Secretary to ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1994
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 425 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

How neat Noddy cleaned up the litter

... Northampton’s first female Labour MP? - Lillian Whitehead, Semiiong. @ 1 was very interested to read the letter about Margaret Bondfield. If the writer is interested, I am giving a talk to St James Co-op Women'’s Guild at the Exeter Rooms on June 28 at ...

Published: Saturday 25 June 1994
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 355 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

O B S R I eO R s R S oy

... due to an outbreak of smallpox. ® A General Election was held in November and Northampton’s first female Labour MP, Margaret Bondfield, was defeated by the Tories. 3 o ide of QUESTION - what ave t Monty Python team ever don for British comedy? Well, there ...

Published: Monday 11 July 1994
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 495 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

MP is remembered

... MP is remembered mmwhwnw Twmwn.m«-m ber The late Margaret Bondfield was MP for Northampton in 1923-4 and became the first woman cabinet minister and chairman of the TUC. Guest speaker Euro MP Angela Billingham will be recounting her experiences in Brussels ...

Published: Thursday 13 October 1994
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 103 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

CHRONICLE WOMAN Northampton had our own

... CHRONICLE WOMAN Northampton had our own 1923 Northampton had its own ‘Maggie’ when the determined Margaret Grace Bondfield 3 elected as the town’s first woman One person who saw the 50-year-old wooing the electors wrote in the Northampton Independent: ...

Published: Thursday 01 December 1994
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 230 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

‘Maggie’

... L AT L N o 8 . X P Pl K A. o ‘f a‘,\ it 1y : 17 , 5 AL . s T 3‘ o - 5o .‘ L 4 LA N R Pl ¢ : SR ® MAGGIE MARK ONE - i Margaret Bondfield (left) in Northampton in 1928 ...

Published: Thursday 01 December 1994
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 124 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

50 years ago

... vivid brown, which served to heighten the effect of his fiery beard. He returned to the town to speak at several of Miss Margaret Bondfield’s election meetings and stayed as the guest of Alderman and Mrs W J Bassett-Lowke. ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1996
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 92 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

The politician and the actor

... Kings Heath and in the Grange Road area of the town. And they made a brief stop at Bondfield Avenue which is named after the former Northampton MP Margaret Bondfield, who went on to become the first woman Cabinet Minister. Miss Short said: “The response ...

Published: Wednesday 30 April 1997
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Why ’m proud to be here, by MP Clarke

... both the law courts and Parliament. No history of Northampton parliamentarians would be complete without reference to Margaret Bondfield the first woman Minister in this place when she was appointed Cabinet Minister for Labour in 1929. Northampton was a ...

Published: Thursday 31 July 1997
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 945 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

50 years ago ADDRESSING the scholars at Northampton School for Girls’ 31st speech day, the Rt Hon Margaret ..

... 50 years ago ADDRESSING the scholars at Northampton School for Girls’ 31st speech day, the Rt Hon Margaret Bondfield, former MP for Northampton and first woman Cabinet Minister, made an earnest plea for the girls to give their utmost support to Needy ...

Published: Thursday 05 March 1998
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 65 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Cooking fire

... Cooking fire A CHIP pan fire sparked an alert at the Margaret Bondfield hall of residence on the Park Campus of Nene University College at 10.40 pm yesterday. The ground, first and second floor passage ways were damaged. Thief thwarted A WOMAN confronted ...

Published: Monday 30 March 1998
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 149 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

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... can you be? Northampton’s first woman and first Labour member of Parliament was Margaret Bondfield, elected in 1923, some 74 & Maureen Colquhoun MP and Margaret Bondfield MP (right) | s & WSI * E ] = Rand ,:'3 3 ? ‘ - 5 fi’ ol ; . s B b a oAI = 3 2 ‘oun ...

Published: Thursday 16 April 1998
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 367 | Page: 6 | Tags: none