Brent Women of Renown Project
CTT are delighted that it was a record breaking occasion with a Sold Out full audience, entertained with the Mayor of Brent Cllr Orleen Hylton’s presentation. https://cricklewood.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Camping-Moodboard.-Instagram-Collage-9-Photos.mp4
Kilburn was one of the hotbed spots for the Suffragettes movement. It was here that Violet Doudney a key suffragette trained as a teacher and organised protests rallies. The National Lottery Funded “Brent Women of Renown” project shared Violet’s story, Amy Johnson Aviation and Engineer achievements and Dame Stephanie Shirley’s inspirational life to students in Brent […]
Amy Johnson, the pioneering aviator, gripped the control stick as her beloved de Havilland Gipsy Moth fought against the relentless fury of the sandstorm. Her goggles were coated with a fine layer of grit, her once clear view now obscured by the swirling chaos outside. The wind buffeted the tiny aircraft, threatening to cast it […]
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 and to be honest even though it was so hard to get a hold of one. I always knew I was capable of doing it and that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.