Celebrating Scotland’s ordinary suffragettes: meet the women marching to remember those who won them the vote

THE yellowing photograph is more than a 100 years old. But there is no mistaking the sense of purpose of the women it captures, striding along Edinburgh’s Princes Street waving flags in the suffragette colours of green, purple and white. The streets are crowded with onlookers, while others squeeze on to the balconies of Princes Street’s grandest buildings. Here, captured in this picture of the 1909 march are those who helped to secure votes for women – first in 1918 for women over 30 who owned property and then, 10 years later, for women over 21. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16266039.Celebrating_Scotland__39_s_ordinary_suffragettes__meet_the_women_marching_to_remember_those_who_won_them_the_vote/