Our intention to put Waterloo Bridge on the map as The Ladies Bridge, has led us to make films, and host many events.
Starting in 2005 with The Ladies Bridge documentary and substantiated by Prof Wall’s research, there followed a ten year campaign resulting in Historic England’s 2015 official listing. This placed Waterloo bridge as an icon of women’s often unrecognised contribution to society, firmly in the popular imagination
31st May 2019
LONDON HISTORY DAY
The Ladies Bridge team collaborated with the Women’s Library at the LSE, London School of Economics and Political Science . We had two full house screenings of our film at the LSE, a lively discussion and then marched down to Waterloo Bridge to celebrate the renewed interest in a #blueplaque and #LONDONHISTORYDAY by giving WATERLOO Bridge a temporary plaque.
Please sign our petition for the plaque:
September 2018
We explored the link between suffrage and women working in non traditional roles with two workshops, Make more Noise & Taking Off :
Taking Off: the I.E.T. Opens It’s Doors
Jenny Lockyer performing as the invincible Amy Johnson joined the Ladies bridge team in creating an exciting day of activities around women in engineering, emphasising the vital links between accessing work previously closed to women and the rise of the suffrage movement.
June 2018
Make More Noise Conway Hall
Over 70 women and a handful of men enjoyed performances by Brit school students from the play “Her Naked Skin” and excerpts from a play written and performed by students at University of the Creative arts. We were also treated to Zoe Philpotts new show Ada’s Army alongside making headscarves, badges and art.
A week later, we celebrated the centenary of the first women to get the vote by making a unique banner of cloth and metal with which we marched through London as part of Artichoke’s iconic PROCESSION.
September 2016
Light up the Ladies Bridge
We celebrated the 2015 Historic England listing with a three day event event, mixing epic projections on the National Theatre tower and arches of the bridgeand: a community choir; live music and over two hundred people joining hands across the bridge to make a human chain campaigning for a blue plaque to be placed on the bridge. This event was enjoyed by thousands and was part of the Totally Thames Festival: Take Me to the River.
