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5th November 2025
Eagle House on the outskirts of Bath has been mentioned on the Post before because it was a refuge for suffragettes coming out of prison. How mad it all seems now, and to thousands of people did at the time: all that effort and meanness just to stop women having a vote! Well, Eagle House was an extremely welcome refuge. This photograph shows Annie Kenney, Mary Blathwayt (whose parents owned the house) and Emmeline Pankhurst in the garden of Eagle House in 1910.
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