Blue Plaque - Electric Lady Multi-Cache
Blue Plaque - Electric Lady
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The Blue Plaque is there to commemorate the connection between a person and either a building or an area
The final cache is way from the plaque itself, read on to get the vibes as to where it might be
This lady became a, DBE, JP, Born in Worth, West Sussex was a British electrical engineer and electricity industry administrator.
She was the first secretary of the Women's Engineering Society, and the founder and editor of its journal, The Woman Engineer. She was co-founder and first director of the Electrical Association for Women, which pioneered such 'wonders', as they were described in contemporary magazines, as the "All-Electric House" in Bristol in 1935. Her particular interest was electricity, and how this might benefit women by liberating them from household drudgery. In the early 1920s, few houses had electric light or heating, let alone electrical appliances; the National Grid was not yet in existence.
“Way is being made by electricity for a higher order of women - women set free from drudgery, who have time for reflection; for self-respect. We are coming to an Age when the spiritual and higher state of life will have freer development, and this is only possible when women are liberated from soul-destroying drudgery...
I want her to have leisure to acquaint herself more profoundly with the topics of the day”
She was, the eldest daughter of Robert Haslett, a railway signal fitter and activist for the co-operative movement. After school in Haywards Heath, Haslett joined the Cochran Boiler Company as a secretary. Managing to transfer to the works during the war, she acquired a basic engineering training in London and Annan from 1914 to 1918, and from that time became something of a pioneer for women in the electrical and professional world.
In 1919 she became first secretary of the Women's Engineering Society (WES) and was President in 1941. In November 1924 she co-founded and became the first director of the Electrical Association for Women. She was Chair of the Council of Scientific Management in the Home and presented papers on home management in various countries.
From 1946 to 1954 this lady was the only woman member of the Council of the British Institute of Management, and the first woman Chairman (from 1953 to 1954) of the British Electrical Development Association. She edited the Electrical Handbook for Women and Household Electricity.
Having been raised to the peerage as a Dame she became President of the British Federation of Business and Professional Women and President of the International Federation in 1950. She was greatly helped by J. P. Frederick Stephen Button, CBE.
During the Second World War she undertook several missions at the request of the British and United States Governments and was appointed chairman of the Hosiery Working Party and Honorary Advisor on Women's Training to the Labour Ministry
Reportedly, her dying wish was that she be cremated by electricity.
Now you know a bit about the Lady. Find the cache from the numbers on the plaque, it has four of them on it and they become
A – BCDE – FGHJ – KLMP
The electricity bill can be found at
N 51 07.AE(D-G) W 00 09.(F+H)C(MxP)
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Gurer vf bayl bar cynpr vg pna or, ohg abg gur arnerfg. . . .
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