{"id":685,"date":"2019-06-01T08:52:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T08:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/?page_id=685"},"modified":"2019-06-01T08:52:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T08:52:16","slug":"cordwainer-ward-women-receive-the-freedom-of-city-of-london","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/?page_id=685","title":{"rendered":"Cordwainer Ward Women receive the Freedom of City of London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>International Women&#8217;s Day &#8211; Cordwainer Ward Women receive the Freedom of City of London &#8211; 8th March 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_674\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/?attachment_id=674\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-674\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-674\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-674\" src=\"http:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/100-Women-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cordwainer recipients: L to R Sue Hills, Alison Perrott, and Mary Gilmore with the Rt Hon. the Lord Major, Alderman Peter Estin, Alex Barr and Sr Michael Snyder<\/p><\/div>\n<p>To commemorate the centenary of the Representation of\u00a0the People Act in 1918 (\u2018universal suffrage\u2019) the City\u2019s Court\u00a0of Common Council nominated c100 women to receive the\u00a0Freedom of the City of London. Your Ward team were proud\u00a0to nominate a number of leading women from Cordwainer\u00a0Ward to receive this award. A drinks reception was held at\u00a0the Guildhall Art Gallery on 8 March, International Women\u2019sDay, with speeches from The Lord Mayor, Peter Estlin and the\u00a0Chairman of Policy and Resources, Catherine McGuiness, with\u00a0a number of the Cordwainer recipients in attendance. Many of\u00a0the Freedom ceremonies have now been held, and Sir Michael\u00a0Snyder and Alex Barr were proud to be there for the Mansion\u00a0House Ceremony in April for Sue Hills (T Rowe Price), Allison Perrott\u00a0(Sweetings Restaurant) and Mary Gilmore (Beauty Essence), all as\u00a0the Lord Mayor\u2019s guests. Also nominated, but unable to attend\u00a0the ceremony was Jess Patel of the Bow Lane newsagents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Women&#8217;s Day &#8211; Cordwainer Ward Women receive the Freedom of City of London &#8211; 8th March 2019 To commemorate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/685\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cordwainer.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}