Doris Birdsall

Doris Birdsall CBE was a Labour councillor for 26 years, first for Bradford Moor and later Wyke, and Lord Mayor of Baildon during 1975-1976.

Life

Doris Birdsall was the daughter of a mill-working mother and a trade union organiser father. Leaving school aged 16, she married in 1940. Eight years later, Birdsall moved with her husband to Hartlepool.

She joined the Labour Party in 1948. Returning to Bradford during the mid-1950s, Doris was elected to the city council in 1958, winning a seat in Bradford Moor. She switched to Wyke 13 years later, serving as councillor from 1971 to 1984. Birdsall, who moved to Baildon, was Lord Mayor from 1975-76.

In 1984 she retired from local politics, and in 1986 was awarded a CBE "for services to education". She died in 2008, leaving two children, two grand-children, and a great-grandson.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ Proctor, Jacki. "Doris Birdsall". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
  2. ↑ Winrow, Jo. "Tributes as former Lord Mayor dies". Telegraph & Argus. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
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