The winning design for a statue of RSPB founder and 'eco-activist' Emily Williamson has been selected. Horrified by the era's fashions of feathers, she launched a campaign to stop the Victorian trade in plumes for women's hats.
Her tireless campaigning led to the creation in 1889 of what is now known as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - RSPB. READ MORE: Fletcher Moss Park in Didsbury was Emily's home - and that's where the bronze statue of her will stand in timeless memory of her work.
The statue campaign to honour one of Greater Manchester's unsung heroines was the brainchild of Didsbury councillor Andrew Simcock and Tessa Boase, a journalist and social historian whose 2018 book on the suffragettes, 'Mrs Pankhurst's Purple
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