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THE LADY LORD MAYORS OF NORWICH

19232017

This book is dedicated to these seventeen remarkable women, whose names will live forever on the magnificent marble slabs within Norwich City Hall

THE LADY LORD MAYORS OF NORWICH

19232017

PHYLLIDA SCRIVENS

First published in Great Britain in 2018

by Pen & Sword History

An imprint of Pen & Sword Books Limited

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Copyright Phyllida Scrivens 2018

ISBN 978 1 47389 369 6

eISBN 978 1 47389 371 9

Mobi ISBN 978 1 47389 370 2

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Contents

Illustration Credits

Cover: Norwich City Hall 1951.	With permission from Jonathan Plunkett, George Plunketts Photographs of old Norwich and Norfolk website.
Cover: Judith Lubbock.	Archant CM Ltd.
Ethel and Helen Colman.	With permission from Shirley Place.
The original Hathor .	With permission from Shirley Place.
Ethel Mary Colman.	With permission from Norfolk Record Office.
Mabel Clarkson at home.	By Lafayette, 26 September 1928, National Portrait Gallery, London.
Mabel Clarkson at carnival.	Courtesy of East Anglian Film Archive Cat 108, Glimpses of Norwich Carnival 1931.
Joyce Morgan with Margaret Thatcher.	Courtesy of Archant Norfolk.
Joyce Morgan in civic coach.	Courtesy of Archant Norfolk.
Valerie Guttsman outside City Hall.	Courtesy of Archant Norfolk.
Valerie Guttsman in hard hat.	Courtesy of Archant Norfolk.
Barbara Stevenson in car.	Courtesy of Archant Norfolk.
Barbara as child.	With permission from Barbara Stevenson.
Barbara Stevenson family group.	With permission fromAnya Mitchell.
Jill Miller in coach.	Courtesy of Archant Norfolk.
Jill Miller cutting Brians hair.	Courtesy of Archant Norfolk.
Brenda Ferris portrait.	With permission from Brenda Ferris.
Brenda Ferris and Clint Eastwood.	With permission from Brenda Ferris.
Brenda Ferris outside City Hall.	Courtesy of Archant Norfolk.
Lila Cooper as Dolly Levi.	Peter King.
Coach in Norvic Drive.	With permission from Alison Bacon.
Robert Climie.	By Bassono Ltd, 10 January 1924, National Portrait Gallery, London.
Joyce Climie Divers on balcony.	Courtesy of Archant Norfolk.
Felicity Hartley under umbrella.	Courtesy of Archant Norfolk.
Felicity Hartley outside City Hall.	With permission from Felicity Hartley.
Eve Collishaw with portrait.	With permission from Liz Balkwill.
Eve Collishaw with Tim ORiordan.	Jeff Taylor, Norwich City Council.
Jenny Lay on her engagement.	With permission from Susie Lay.
Jenny Lay civic group.	Jeff Taylor, Norwich City Council.
Judith Lubbock in canoe.	With permission from the Broads Authority.
Judith Lubbock inspecting troops.	Jeff Taylor, Norwich City Council.
Brenda Arthur group at cathedral.	Jeff Taylor, Norwich City Council.
Brenda Arthur at UEA.	With permission from Brenda Arthur.
Marion Maxwell at Mayor-Making.	Jeff Taylor, Norwich City Council.
Marion Maxwell at SCVA.	Photo by Andi Sapey, courtesy of Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
Whifflers with Snap the Dragon.	Jeff Taylor, Norwich City Council.
Sword and Mace Bearers.	Jeff Taylor, Norwich City Council.
Norwich City Council Chamber.	Jeff Taylor, Norwich City Council.
The civic coach outside cathedral.	Jeff Taylor, Norwich City Council.
Past Lord Mayors badge.	Image reproduced with permission from Norwich City Council.
Motifs from new Lord Mayors chain.	Jeff Taylor, Norwich City Council.

Foreword

by Baroness Hollis of Heigham

Norwich has long been a radical city, celebrating the French Revolution (with a maypole), offering safe space to chartists, nonconformists, and refugees from the County and the Continent; and proud of its eminent women, drawn from leading liberal Norwich families and prominent in nineteenth-century progressive causes anti-slavery and womens suffrage. They sustained city charities, for the frail, the damaged, and the homeless leaving the impersonal work of contracts and construction to their men.

Norwichs first woman councillor, the university educated Mabel Clarkson, elected in 1913 (Lord Mayor 1930), had insisted that the best wealth of a city is in the health of its citizens, demanding free school meals for needy children, a living wage, and decent pensions. She was amongst the first cluster of women councillors nationwide. The wealthy Ethel Colman (192324) was the first woman Lord Mayor in the entire country; like Mabel Clarkson, she joined the Labour Party after the First World War. Dorothy Jewson was one of the earliest Labour women MPs. The city regularly had a higher proportion of elected women than most other councils.

In return, women councillors gave the city much often their lifes work as this engaging, richly detailed, and very readable account of Norwichs seventeen Lady Lord Mayors shows. All but Ethel Colman were elected city councillors. Some senior women had significant committee responsibility: Joyce Morgan for health; Valerie Guttsman for welfare; and Ethel Colman, with her sister, restored and donated Suckling and Stuart halls to the city in 1925. A later woman Lord Mayor, Brenda Ferris, resolutely (and effectively) championed the Arts, and helped turn the halls into Cinema City, and Brenda Arthur, the wise city leader, spent her final year on the Council as Lord Mayor.

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