The wording of the plaque reads:
“Dame Leah Manning
1886-1977
Campaigner for children’s welfare and women’s rights
Trained as a teacher at Homerton College
Taught here, formerly New Street Ragged School”
Leah Manning co-ordinated the evacuation of 4000 children from the Basque country in 1937. Twenty-nine of them were cared for by Cambridge volunteers at the house in Station Road that is site #2 on this trail.
