A blue plaque has been unveiled to a “feisty and determined” North Tyneside woman whose politically pioneering spirit helped pave the way for equality at the ballot box.
International Women’s Day was chosen to immortalise celebrated Tynemouth suffragette Norah Balls, who alongside her friends Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Davison, was at the heart of the struggle in the early 20 th Century to win votes for women.
Two of Norah’s great-nieces, Anne Naylor and Diana Meale, had the honour of unveiling the plaque to the celebrated Suffragette and community activist, at the house she lived in at 36 King Edward Road, Tynemouth, between 1902 and 1936.
