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30 September 2023
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Salwa Ali

Muttering profanities under her breath, Amy clutched the yoke of her biplane and charged it towards a billow of snowy white clouds. Jason, her trusted companion in this tedious and strenuous journey, shuddered as it travelled through the pearly haze that threatened to conceal the view beneath. Amy had set off for this perilous flight at daybreak and after a few exhausting hours, she could finally notice the azure skies beginning to stain with oblivion. The unstable route she had taken to complete this journey had taken its toll on Amy who dazedly fought against her subconscious to stay awake, reciting nursery rhymes. She was drunk with fatigue, parched and starved.

Salwa Ali

Muttering profanities under her breath, Amy clutched the yoke of her biplane and charged it towards a billow of snowy white clouds.

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Joice Nageswaran

I couldn’t believe it, I was actually in control of the yoke, I was speechless, it was a dream come true. I’ve always wanted to fly a plane

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Zohaib Nazir

Amy Johnson, the pioneering aviator, gripped the control stick as her beloved de Havilland Gipsy Moth fought against the relentless fury

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30 September 2023
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Kingsbury High Creative Writers Flying High

The Brent Women of Renown Project are in partnership with Kingsbury High School and the team were out during summer term 2023 delivering school assemblies and workshops to lower school as well as creative writing and oral history to sixth form students. Dr Midge Gillies facilitated the oral history and creative writing workshop with the students at the RAF Museum, Hendon.

Here we have selected three students excerpts of their brilliant creative imagination of Amy Johnson’s flights.

 

Salwa Ali

Muttering profanities under her breath, Amy clutched the yoke of her biplane and charged it towards a billow of snowy white clouds.

Read more..

Joice Nageswaran

I couldn’t believe it, I was actually in control of the yoke, I was speechless, it was a dream come true. I’ve always wanted to fly a plane

Read more..

Zohaib Nazir

Amy Johnson, the pioneering aviator, gripped the control stick as her beloved de Havilland Gipsy Moth fought against the relentless fury

Read more..

21 September 2023
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Upcoming Events for Brent Women of Renown

Pupils at Maple Walk School doing a Dame Stephanie inspired coding workshop in March 2023 designed by Ms Gaby Hill. 

So she was a child on the Kindertransport, arriving a refugee. What happened next. We’ll cover more of Dame Stephanie’s life in the Brent Women of Renown film, to be screened on 6th November 2023.

21 September 2023
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Party for the Pioneer, Dame Stephanie Shirley 

Dame Stephanie Shirley has just celebrated her 90th birthday and the Brent Women of Renown project team salute her on this joyous occasion. In her words “I’ve done more in the eight decades since that miserable day when my mother put me on a train, than I would ever have believed possible. I decided to make my life one that had been worth saving…. And then just got on with it.”

The Brent school children we have worked with are in awe of Dame Stephanie for many facets of her life. 

24 March 2023
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Dame Stephanie gave a talk “My Family in Exile”

Top left Amanda Beasley, Angela Payne, Dame Steve Shirley and Amanda Epe.
The Brent Women of Renown project is a heritage lottery funded project awarded to Cricklewood Town Team being delivered throughout 2023, sharing the achievements and struggles of three pioneering women through school workshops and adult engagement forums . Dame Stephanie Shirley, CH is one of the  three pioneer women recognised as a pioneer computer engineer and philanthropist. 

Dame Stephanie  gave a talk “My Family in Exile” at The Weiner Holocaust’ Library on Tuesday 21st March, signing copies of her memoir “LET IT GO”, The Brent Women of Renown project team directed by Angela Payne got to chat with her afterwards sharing details of the school workshops and pleasantries. 

For more information on the three pioneer women see the Press Release for Cricklewood Town Team website.

 
Read more about Dame Stephanie

28 February 2023
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Press Release for Cricklewood Town Team website

PRESS RELEASE
CRICKLEWOOD TOWN TEAM

BRENT WOMEN OF RENOWN PROJECT 2023

The Cricklewood Town Team (CTT), a group of volunteers representing the local community who work to improve the area for residents and business, has been awarded a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £78,000 to celebrate the life and achievements of three Brent Women of Renown who overcame adversity and prejudice to change the world for the better. Cricklewood has an interesting history over the past 150 years and CTT and local residents’ associations receive very positive feedback to all the heritage work that has been achieved, particularly at Cricklewood station.

The outline plan for the project is to work with teachers throughout 2023 in six primary schools and one secondary in Brent. The project will link closely with the National Curriculum to enable young people to learn research skills, including oral history, and to find inspiration in the lives of these three remarkable women… [Download the full PDF]

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