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24 North Street Old Town, Swindon, SN1 3JX • Elegant 4 bedroom family home Offers In Region Of £315,000 • Historically recognised birth EPC Rating ‘59’ place of suffragette Edith New • Newly installed combi boiler • Arranged over 3 floors 24 North Street, Old Town, Swindon, SN1 3JX Property Description Ashcox & Stone are delighted to offer for sale, an elegant and very well presented 4 bedroom family home with extended living area and a south facing garden. Located in the heart of Old Town, this much improved home, offers a lounge, dining room, separate family room, large galley kitchen with fitted Smeg appliances and WC/Utility to the ground floor. From the family room at the rear of the house, is the south facing patio with raised beds and path to the rear gate providing pedestrian access from a private walkway. To the first floor, is the master bedroom with en-suite, along with bedroom four. In between these two rooms is the family bathroom, this has a newly fitted suite complete with waterfall shower and Jack & Jill doors to connect bedroom 4. The second floor has 2 further bedrooms, both with Dorma windows, additional storage and some additional loft space. Accessed from the hallway on the ground floor are the stairs to the basement storage area. The location of this property is perfect to access all of Old Town's amenities and just a short walk down the hill into the Town Centre; Morrisons and Cinema complex. It is a 5 minute walk from King William Primary School, 15 minute walk from Lethbridge Primary School and similar distance to Commonweal Secondary School. This particular house has a special place in Swindon's history having been awarded a Swindon Heritage Blue Plaque in 2016, commemorating the birth place of militant suffragette 'Edith New'. "Organised by the Swindon Heritage Magazine, the plaque is located on North Street where the icon of the votes for women movement was born in 1877. The former teacher is best-known for chaining herself to the railings of 10 Downing Street in January 1908 together with Olivia Smith, as a diversion so fellow suffragettes Flora Drummond and Mary Macarthur could sneak in." %epcGraph_c_1_325% 2 Marlborough Road www.ashcoxandstone.co.uk Agents Note: Whilst every care has been taken to prepare these sales particulars, they are for guidance purposes only. All measurements are approximate are for general guidance purposes Swindon [email protected] only and whilst every care has been taken to ensure their accuracy, they should not be relied Wiltshire 01793 269000 upon and potential buyers are advised to recheck the measurements SN3 1QY .

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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Primary Sources Books Kenney, Annie. Memories of a Militant. London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1924. Autobiography of Annie Kenney. Lytton, Constance, and Jane Warton. Prisons & Prisoners. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Personal experiences of Lady Constance Lytton. Pankhurst, Christabel. Unshackled. London: Hutchinson and Co (Publishers) Ltd, 1959. Autobiography of Christabel Pankhurst. Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. London: Hearst’s International Library Co, 1914. Autobiography of Emmeline Pankhurst. Newspaper Articles "Amazing Scenes in London." Western Daily Mercury (Plymouth), March 5, 1912. Window breaking in March 1912, leading to trials of Mrs. Pankhurst and Mr. & Mrs. Pethick- Lawrence. "The Argument of the Broken Pane." Votes for Women (London), February 23, 1912. The argument of the stone: speech delivered by Mrs Pankhurst on Feb 16, 1912 honoring released prisoners who had served two or three months for window-breaking demonstration in November 1911. "Attempt to Burn Theatre Royal." The Scotsman (Edinburgh), July 19, 1912. PM Asquith's visit hailed by Irish Nationalists, protested by Suffragettes; hatchet thrown into Mr. Asquith's carriage, attempt to burn Theatre Royal. "By the Vanload." Lancashire Daily Post (Preston), February 15, 1907. "Twenty shillings or fourteen days." The women's raid on Parliament on Feb 13, 1907: Christabel Pankhurst gets fourteen days and Sylvia Pankhurst gets 3 weeks in prison. "Coal That Cooks." The Suffragette (London), July 18, 1913. Thirst strikes. Attempts to escape from "Cat and Mouse" encounters. "Churchill Gives Explanation." Dundee Courier (Dundee), July 15, 1910. Winston Churchill's position on the Conciliation Bill. "The Ejection." Morning Post (London), October 24, 1906. 1 The day after the October 23rd Parliament session during which Premier Henry Campbell- Bannerman cold-shouldered WSPU, leading to protest led by Mrs Pankhurst that led to eleven arrests, including that of Mrs Pethick-Lawrence and gave impetus to the movement.
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Sylvia Pankhurst Tate Britain: Display 16 September 2013 – 6 April 2014 Curated by the Emily Davidson Lodge (Olivia Plender and Hester Reeve)
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RSA Know Her Name Edith Bessie New CHIPPENHAM Panel-1
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