Elsie Lilly Kimber blue plaque

Newbury, West Berkshire, England, United Kingdom

This building, called "Kimber's Corner" was from 1906 the site of Kimber's Grocers and Provision Merchants, the birthplace and home of Elsie Lilly Kimber (1889-1954) first female Mayor of Newbury since the Council was created in 1596. She was elected the first female Newbury Town Councillor in 1922,

served as Mayor of Newbury 1932-33, and was appointed the first female Alderman of the Borough in 1943. Elsie was one of the first intake of 39 pupils to the Newbury County Girls' School when it open

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