The Later Years

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Susannah died in August 1950, feeling alone and neglected by the community she had devoted so much of her life to. There were people that fought her cause, though, and her family had not deserted her. She was hospitalised from 1945. Local activists located the Memorial Album abandoned in the workshop where it had been printed. They organised its re-binding and after determined efforts managed to get it displayed in public in November 1948 for the first time since October 1921. Her legacy is now largely forgotten again.

Her grave is unmarked, today. Recent interest sparked by this researcher has led to Chorley erecting a willow statue in her memory in the gardens at Astley Hall.

Photographs from the Walmsley Archive and by Adam Cree.