Our new logo features Lady Rhondda and the Millennium footbridge in Suffragette colours. We hope many people will support the campaign and buy a T-shirt; every purchase includes a donation to the statue fund, and we that everyone enjoys searching for the ‘rebel on the pebble’- as we have hidden 25 Statue for Lady Rhondda stones around the Newport area.”
The decorated pebbles with the new logo Sylvia Mason of the Newport Women’s Forum said: “Our small charity supports Newport women. By contributing to the Lady Rhondda fund, we hope many Newport women, seeing her statue, will feel emboldened by her life of bravery and persistence.
A suffragette is set to get a statue in her honour - more than 100 years after she tried to blow up a post box.
Margaret Mackworth, known as Lady Rhondda, campaigned to give women the right to vote in the early 20th century.
She created a home-made bomb and posted it into a public letterbox and left mail damaged inside.
A fundraising campaign has been launched to create a statue of Margaret Mackworth, also known as Lady Rhondda, who campaigned for women s rights in the early 20th century. Pictured: Viscountess Rhonda signing petition to let women sit in the House of Lords in 1947
A look back at the unveiling of a plaque for Newport’s Lady Rhondda SUFFRAGETTE, businesswoman, and journalist Lady Rhondda is less well known, but this group of Newport women are doing their best to change this. As well as currently fundraising for a statue to commemorate this firebrand feminist in the city, the campaign truly started way back in 2015. They started a campaign to get a blue plaque for Lady Rhondda and raised their total of £1,104 in just 12 day. On June 12, 2015, it was unveiled next to the Risca Road post-box the activist set on fire in 1913 by dropping two vials of chemicals through the letter box.