07.11.2023
The Cricklewood Town Team (CTT), - created by Ashford Place in 2010 and made up of residents and businesses in the area to make our local place somewhere that we can all be proud of – this week celebrated the life and achievements of past and current Brent Women of Renown who overcame adversity and prejudice to change the world for the better. Cricklewood has an interesting history over the past 150 years, and CTT and local residents’ associations received very positive feedback to all the heritage work that has been achieved, particularly at Cricklewood station. The women of renown project funded by www.heritagefund.org.uk included Kilburn suffragette, Violet Doudney (1889-1952), Amy Johnson (1903-1941) who learnt to fly at Stag Lane Aerodrome, and Dame Stephanie Shirley, who fled Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport at the age of five and who grew up to be an influential mathematician, information technology pioneer, businesswoman and philanthropist.
The centre piece of the project is a film, available soon, which includes the work carried out by students and teachers from different schools in Brent. We will upload the film to the internet and place it and project resources in the Archives section at the Willesden Library
