The suffragette housemaid Finish:Single The yard is based on

The yard is based on the length of a seconds pendulum (a pendulum whose period is precisely two seconds)

'Theatrical Mendicants

Left to right are Ronnie 'Plonk' Lane

View of the opening of the new Blackfriars Bridge by Queen Victoria from the south bank of the River Thames

with a banquet at the Corporation's expense

The suffragette housemaid Finish:Single The yard is based onThe suffragette housemaid, 1908. A suffragette wearing a pinafore advertising a protest on London's Victoria Embankment. The campaign to secure the vote for women in Britain saw women adopting a range of protests, direct action and civil disobedience, for which many were imprisoned. Partial suffrage was achieved in 1918, with all women finally gaining the right to vote ten years later, in 1928.