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Famous Women

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..... FIRST woman chairman of the Chartered Institute of Marketing in January 2000. She was the Associate Dean of Salford University's Faculty of Business and Information and prior to this was director of the Centre for Audience Development Research at the University

* Leila Berg

born 1917 -

..... children's writer and editor whose work in children's education drew attention to the urban, working-class environment. Whilst editor at Macmillans she launched the 'Nippers' series of primary-school readers, many of which she wrote herself

* Lettice Cooper neé Lettice Ulpha Cooper

born September 3rd

..... at Eccles, although she was brought up in Leeds. She decided to become a writer at the age of seven and her first novel The Lighted Room was published twenty years later. In all she produced 60 novels, several biographies (George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson) and some children’s books. She was a leader of the campaign to secure the Public Lending Rights in 1978 as one of the five founder members of the Writers’ Action Group. As she approached the age of 90 some of her works were reissued by Virago and Victor Gollancz and a dinner was held in her honour at the Savile Club. In 1978 she was appointed OBE and she died in 1994

* Lilian Hall

..... Salford's FIRST woman police officer who joined Salford City Police as an auxiliary in 1941. She retired in 1978 after 37 years service

* Lily Madeline Wood

..... Salford heroine who was awarded a bronze medal for conspicuous bravery in saving the life of a two year old child in 1907. She was aged 15 at the time and also received an engraved gold locket and chain from the Salford Tramways Committee

* Linda Wray

..... Salford girl who was the FIRST "double transplant" patient to take part in the Transplant Games in Edinburgh in 1985

* Lisa Battye

….. FIRST female chaplain in Salford when she took office of St. Thomas' Church in Clifton

* Louise Yates

..... Hope Hospital's ( Salford, England) FIRST ever bed manager when appointed in 1993 to be responsible for ensuring that all elective patients , those coming in for operations and all emergencies go to the right ward

* Lyn Metcalfe

..... FIRST head of the pioneering Ordsall Nursery Centre in Salford, England, one of the FIRST in the country in 1974