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Hazel Rennie
Hazel Rennie (1928? – 2016) was a British peace activist who was a member of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp from 1982 and remained closely connected with it until its closure in December 2000. She was also active in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Early life and career Rennie was the daughter of Clara Calvert, and grew up in East Morton in West Yorkshire, England, where her family worked in textile mills. She was the last of six children, and went to school locally, leaving at 14 to work in a munitions factory. From a young age she liked to write poetry and would sometimes do this rather than attend school. In the late 1940s she moved to Hove, East Sussex to work in a hospital, where at Christmas she would write and perform plays for the staff with her friend Kate Brodbin, who would also become a member of the WILPF. They poked fun at the hierarchy within the hospital, the new National Health Service and the government. She then joined t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Morton
East Morton is a village in the civil parish of Keighley, in the Bradford district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. It lies north of Bingley and east of Keighley. The small hamlet of West Morton lies to the north west. The village has a population of 1,169 according to the 2011 census. History The place name Morton historically indicated a ''marsh or moor settlement''. East and West Morton, together with Riddlesden and a large area of Rombalds Moor, formed the chapelry of Morton in the ancient parish of Bingley in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The chapelry became the parish of Morton by an act of Parliament in 1846, and in 1866 became a civil parish. The civil parish was abolished in 1938 and absorbed into the civil parish and municipal borough of Keighley, itself abolished in 1974 and absorbed into the City of Bradford Metropolitan District in the new county of West Yorkshire. The civil parish of Keighley, including East and West Morton, was reconstituted in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |