Ada Salter Garden opened

A garden in honour of Ada Salter has been opened in Raunds

Ada Salter, the Quaker environmentalist and housing campaigner, was honoured this month with a special garden being named after her.

The garden was opened on 11 August in a ribbon-cutting ceremony by the mayor of Raunds and the mayor of Southwark, who attended in recognition of Ada Salter’s groundbreaking work in Bermondsey in London

Ada Salter, along with her husband, Alfred Salter, led the peaceful ‘Bermondsey Revolution’ of the 1920s.

The mayor of Southwark thanked the town of Raunds for sending Bermondsey ‘such a precious gift’ at a time when it was a poverty-stricken area notorious for its slums.

Eighty people attended the event, where Graham Taylor, author of the 2016 book Ada Salter: Pioneer of Ethical Socialism, gave a talk on the little-known history of Ada Brown, as she was known then in Raunds.

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