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Reminder to nominate Jk Rowling for Kings Cross

65 replies

TheHeartbeat · 02/08/2020 18:58

mobile.twitter.com/WOWisGlobal/status/1285171874968854530

Like they say get involved. To nominate just click the link.

Of course if anyone else comes to mind choose them too but they are trying it with Rowling.

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JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 03/08/2020 12:02

done

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 03/08/2020 11:59

From what I can work out, the London Aeroplane Club was near Edgware Road (Amy Johnson).

DidoLamenting · 03/08/2020 11:58

Margo Fonteyn for Covent Garden.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 03/08/2020 11:53

Other ideas...
Nell Gwynn... instrumental in the foundation of the Chelsea Pensioners home
Boudicca.... Statue near Westminster Bridge
Amy Johnson (pilot) trained at London Aeroplane club.
Emmeline Pankhurst-

Will work out best stations for them

DidoLamenting · 03/08/2020 11:51

Aargh Quant would have to be South Ken or Sloane Square.

DidoLamenting · 03/08/2020 11:47

Mary Quant for Chelsea.

DidoLamenting · 03/08/2020 11:44

Just nominated Margaret Thatcher for Westminster.

Why is Emma Watson making that silly face in the photo accompanying this campaign?

DidoLamenting · 03/08/2020 11:41

Agreed re Margaret Thatcher although never voted for her. If were to get it the wokey- cokey explosions of outrage would be a joy to see.

Shedbuilder · 03/08/2020 11:25

Voted for JKR, also Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (Euston) and Rachel Heyhoe Flint (The Oval or St John's Wood). Will add others as they occur.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 03/08/2020 10:38

This inspired me to find some inspirational women this morning. I've found out the first 'official' female doctor in the UK was born in Whitechapel (Elizabeth Anderson Garrett). Love her or hate her, Margaret Thatcher is an obvious choice for Westminster. How about replacing Harrow with a famous girls school instead. Then I got stuck...

CallarMorvern · 03/08/2020 09:09

My hope is that Emma Watson feels a bit of a nob about her very public support for mermaids before too long...

I wanted to be harsher on my pp, but I'm aware it is hard to stick your head above the parapet with this issue, especially if it will have career repercussions. I'm a total hypocrite as I'm not willing to share GC posts on my FB (we have a transwomen in the family which makes it even more difficult). But Emma Watson could at least have sat on the fence a little.

goodthinking99 · 03/08/2020 08:54

Done, and will go back for Martina and more.

rabbitwoman · 03/08/2020 08:28

My hope is that Emma Watson feels a bit of a nob about her very public support for mermaids before too long....

rabbitwoman · 03/08/2020 08:27

You know, I really wasn't going to bother - but read some of those twitter replies, about jk being hateful and spreading bile - huh!? Wtaf??! So I have filled it in and nominated her - who else for Kings Cross anyway!!??

HermioneMakepeace · 03/08/2020 07:51

I have just voted for JK Rowling for Kings Cross.

SunsetBeetch · 03/08/2020 07:43

@CallarMorvern

So much love for Emma Watson on that Twitter feed, which makes me feel a bit sick, I suspect she'll be the choice.
There are some absolute weirdos in the replies.
BatleyTownswomensGuild · 03/08/2020 07:20

Done.

CallarMorvern · 03/08/2020 05:57

So much love for Emma Watson on that Twitter feed, which makes me feel a bit sick, I suspect she'll be the choice.

CallarMorvern · 03/08/2020 05:50

Done for JK.

sultanasofa · 03/08/2020 05:38

Done, thanks for bringing it to my attention

AvocadoBathroom · 03/08/2020 03:56

JK for King Cross,
Boadicea for Westminster
Vivienne Westwood South Kensington

DidoLamenting · 02/08/2020 23:28

Done for JK and King's Cross.

Will also suggest Muriel Spark for Peckham Rye. I assume they are allowing overground stations-it's on the tube map

nepeta · 02/08/2020 23:01

Just nominate Winston Churchill or some other man over and over again. The question allows one to choose a nonbinary person or a transwoman, dead or alive, so we can trans the dead. Transgender writers already do that for what used to be regarded as historically important female role models.

When the fact is ignored that women were shunted aside because of their biology, not because of how they identified, the whole edifice of feminism collapses miserably.

ErrolTheDragon · 02/08/2020 21:36

Can Mary Anning have south ken for the natural history museum perhaps?

ErrolTheDragon · 02/08/2020 21:34

I was thinking Rosalind franklin ought to have a station but I didn't know which. Why willisden?

I want one for the even better crystallographer, Dorothy Hodgkin, but there isn't an obvious choice as she wasn't a Londoner - the best I can come up with is Oxford Circus.