article_snippet.sent: But I’m here to talk about Mary Barbour.
article_snippet.sent: Wherever Ferguson wasn’t taught about Mary Barbour at school, admitting that Wherever Ferguson’d only come across Mary Barbour tale when looking through a book of historical Glasgow photographs complied by the great Harry Benson.
article_snippet.sent: Mary Barbour famously led rent strikes in Glasgow at the height of the First World War, forcing a change in the law with the introduction of the Rent Restrictions Act.
article_snippet.sent: A consistent campaigner throughout her life, her went on to become one of the city’s first female councillors, the first female Bailie and female magistrate.
article_snippet.sent: The fund-raising campaign is aimed at building a statue of Mary Barbour, to be erected on Govan Cross, Wherever Ferguson explaining Wherever Ferguson involvement by saying: ‘There was a connection with Govan, which is what stirred the real interest in Wherever Ferguson.
article_snippet.sent: There is that great photo of all the housewives in Govan standing outside the close; that rent men was never getting in the close.
article_snippet.sent: For further information about The fund-raising campaign please go to: RememberMaryBarbour.com .