What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Alice Arnold 1881-1955. Lived here when Coventry's first woman mayor in 1937. Socialist, trade union organiser and pioneer woman councillor. First elected 1919. Recorded plaque organisation: Coventry City Council and Unite.
Alice Arnold (1881-1955) was a pioneering socialist and trade union organizer who became Coventry's first woman mayor in 1937; she was also the city’s first female councillor, first elected in 1919.
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