Printed Ephemera — 1911-04
Aldwych Skating Rink, 3.30am, Monday 3 April 1911
Aldwych Skating Rink, 3.30am, Monday 3 April 1911
The image depicts a Census Registry protest meeting organised by the Women's Freedom League on Census night 1911. On stage can be seen the singer and actress and founding member of the Actresses' Franchise League, Decima Moore performing a sketch at 3:30am.
In the 1970s Marie Lawson, a leading figure of the WFL recalled 'Our group took the Aldwych skating rink for the night – we hired it. Nobody was supposed to be sleeping there. We had roller skates and we spent the night on roller skates and there was no-one to declare us and when we went away in the morning we were very weary, very tired with our roller skating but we felt we had done the government out of so many names on the census resistance. It wasn’t very useful really but it was something to do. We used to grab at every little thing, you know, that we could make a protest about. It was advertising really.’
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- Printed Ephemera
- Object ID:
- 2003.46/52
- Object name:
- Aldwych Skating Rink, 3.30am, Monday 3 April 1911
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- 1911-04
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- H 180 mm, W 252 mm
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digital image © London Museum
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