A 'press cart' outside the Woman's Press, Charing Cross Road, London, July 1911. Artist: Unknown

A 'press cart' outside the Woman's Press, Charing Cross Road, London, July 1911. Artist: Unknown

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A 'press cart' outside the Woman's Press, No 156 Charing Cross Road, London, July 1911. Miss Shepherd, the driver, is sitting next to Helen Craggs, who was in charge of the distribution of the newspaper Votes for Women in central London. She made sure that all their pitches were supplied with copies. Craggs, twenty, had been arrested in Downing Street on 'Black Friday', 18th November 1910. Later, she was convicted of trying to set fire to a house at Nuneham Courtney, Oxford, and was sentenced to nine months in prison with hard labour.

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