Mrs Clara Daymond, St Budeaux Councillor on Plymouth Borough Council October 1928: As Told to Julia Neville
"As Told to Julia Neville" is a series of imagined conversations between Julia Neville and some of the women who she ‘meets’ in the course of her researches. The conversations are based on items originally featured in archives and local newspapers. It doesn’t get any easier on the feet. Canvassing, I mean. This council election will be my fourth, and of course I’ve been canvassing for many years for my husband George, and for myself at Guardians’ elections. I am a very old hand at it! Now we have quite a system, and a stalwart team of helpers - the St Budeaux Amazons they call us. They’re a bit of a chore, the elections this year. Nothing like the excitement we’ll have next year with the new Equal Franchise Act in place and a General Election to use it in, as well as the council elections. I only wish we could get more women to stand in council elections. We need more women there – it should be half and half, but there are still only seven of us. We don’t always stick toget...