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Pendle Radicals plan blue plaque for ‘forgotten working-class heroine’ Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
Pendle Radicals volunteers, Jules Gibb and Wendy Davison, making the blue plaque and (right) Jules Gibb with the alternative blue plaque [Huckleberry Films]

AN ALTERNATIVE blue plaque honouring “mill poetess” Ethel Carnie Holdsworth is due to appear in Nelson in the borough of Pendle, Lancashire.

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth [Pic:Helen Brown]

The plaque, designed by guerrilla art group Rosie’s Plaques, will likely be put up at the witching hour at an unspecified date.

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