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This blue commemorative plaque records: Laura Willmer 1846-1936 Jane Harvey Willmer 1858-1933 lived in this house 1901-1913. First women editors of The Birkenhead News 1899-1919 The Wallasey News 1903-1933 ardent feminists, prominent suffragists and pioneers Recorded plaque organisation: Oxton Society.

Laura Willmer and Jane Harvey Willmer were pioneering women who served as the first female editors of The Birkenhead News from 1899 to 1919 and The Wallasey News from 1903 to 1933, respectively; they are remembered for their significant contributions to journalism and their activism in the feminist and suffragist movements.

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