Foster Hill Road Cemetery

Ellen Frederica Oliver - suffragette and Southcottian

North Crawley Historical Society

Friday, 22nd March 2024 at 7.30 pm
North Crawley Institute, North Crawley, Newport Pagnell MK16 9LH

Speaker: Colin Woolf.

Some of the people buried in  Foster Hill Road Cemetery in Bedford are suffragette activist Ellen Oliver, Mabel Barltrop, who believed she was a prophet and Danuta Gruszczynska-Alasinska, who served in the underground Polish army during the Nazi occupation.

Others include 32 soldiers of a Scottish Highland unit, Lady Eve, the aunt of World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing and brewer Charles Wells.

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