Ada Salter Day
Ada Salter will be remembered over the weekend of 15 and 16 July
The 150th birthday of Friend and social reformer Ada Salter will be marked on 15 and 16 July.
An exhibition at Cherry Garden Hall, Bermondsey, will explore Ada’s life and times, and there will be two performances of Lynn Morris’s play Red Flag over Bermondsey. A choral event at St Peter and The Guardian Angels Church in Rotherhithe on 16 July will include some of Ada Salter’s favourite songs and arias.
The focal point of the celebration will be the laying of flowers at the statue of Ada Salter by the riverfront in Rotherhithe. Britain Yearly Meeting, the unions Unite and GMB, and the Quaker Socialist Society are among the groups sending representatives. The mayors of Southwark and Raunds (Ada’s home town in Northamptonshire) are also expected to attend.
Ada Salter was the first woman councillor in Bermondsey and the first woman mayor in London. She campaigned against conscription and worked on behalf of women, children, dockers and factory workers.
