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Wednesday, 13 July 2011

MARLBOROUGH ROAD TRIVIA


I like to discover trivia about places and streets where members of our family lived and while writing my post on Marlborough Road (below) I completely forgot to mention a famous name who gave the street a little spot of its own in history.

Marie Stopes (above) was a pioneer of sex education and birth control. She trained as a scientist at University College London but the failure of her first marriage led her to study sex education and contraception. In 1918, she published a controversial but popular book, ‘Married Love’, and in 1921, she opened the first birth control clinic in Britain in Marlborough Road, Holloway. The clinic, which remained there until 1925, offered free services and advice to married women. Marie Stopes International now operates in more than 30 countries.
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  1. Back of beyond14 July 2011 at 06:35

    As it closed before I was born I never heard of it.
    I wonder if there is a blue plaque on the site?

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  2. ernest14 July 2011 at 07:17

    I had a vague memory of seeing a plaque there and I checked it out on Google Maps. There is a plaque there over the shop (now empty) but it does not seem to be a blue one. So the answer is:yes there is a plaque but not a blue one.

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