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 Famous Women

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..... FIRST ever female chief executive with Salford City Council, she will take over her post in April 2006

* Betty Knightly

.....  made electoral history in 1973 when she was unanimously chosen as prospective Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Salford East, the FIRST woman ever to be chosen to fight a Salford Parliamentary seat

* Betty Moore

..... Salford harriers world record holder and winner of two silver medals at the Commonwealth Games

* Beverley Morris

.....  world Karate Champion and four times European Champion

* Brenda Dean

born April 29th 1943

..... born in Salford, she left high school at the age of sixteen and became a typist at a local printing firm. In 1959 she became Administrative Secretary of the Manchester branch of Sogat, a position she held until 1971 when she was elected Assistant Branch Secretary. In 1976 she was elected Branch Secretary and in August 1983 was elected General President of Sogat and General Secretary in 1985, the FIRST woman to lead a major craft or industrial trade union. In July 1986 she was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree by Salford University. she was also a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists and helped to train disabled people to drive cars especially adapted for use by the disabled