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 Famous Women

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* Mae McDowell

..... model who was sought after in all the European capitals. She left Pendleton High School in 1933 and went to finishing school in Paris. In 1948 she started a mannequin academy which became the North's biggest agency for models

* Mandy Ainsworth, Linda McDonald & Sharon Hesketh

..... FIRST women plasterers and plumber to be employed by the Wardley based building maintenance firm of Jackson Lloyd when they joined the company in December 2006

* Mandy Smith

..... the U.K's FIRST local government officer with the job of tackling alcohol abuse among young people when appointed by Salford Council in 2002

* Marcelle Hendricks

..... in 1968 she became the FIRST Salford Carnival Gala's " Miss Personality"

* Margaret Hewitt

born October 25th 1928 died 1991

..... born at Salford she was Reader in Social Institutions at Exeter University and was widely known as a leading figure in the General Synod of the Church of England and was a founder member of Women Against the Ordination of Women (WAOW). She was educated at Pendleton Girls High School ( same as me) in Salford and went to Bedford College, London where she read sociology. She then went to the London School of Economics and her doctoral thesis Wives and Mothers in Victorian Industry in 1958 was a pioneering study of married women's employment in the 19th century. She specialised in teaching women's studies but was strongly opposed to their ordination and in 1986 with two other Synod members founded WAOW. In 1991 it had 5,500 members outnumbering the Movement for the Ordination of Women. She taught on a vast range of subjects including family, religious and historical sociology and also published two volumes on Children in English Society (1969 and 1973) with Ivy Pinchbeck

* Margaret Knowles

..... on October 8th 1955 she became the FIRST Salford girl to gain international swimming honours when she represented England against Scotland

* Margaret Cook Whitehead

..... FIRST woman Mayor of Salford when appointed in May 1960. It was the FIRST time in British history that a husband and wife had both held the mayoralty and the FIRST time in Britain that a woman had been both a Mayoress and a Mayor. Her husband was Alderman S W Davies, who was Mayor in 1958, and she retained her maiden name for civic purposes

* Marie Patterson

..... born in Pendlebury she became President of the Trades Union Congress and in 1975 was awarded an honorary DSc by Salford University

* Marion Fox

..... FIRST childminder in Salford and one of only a few in the country to be graded as 'outstanding' on her latest inspection by education watchdog Ofsted - August 2005