Setting up a nursery is quite something. It is even more something when it is set up by a group of mothers in adverse circumstances with no promise of funding or premises.
Among the captivating stories at the Women in Revolt exhibition (Tate Britain) is that of the Market Nursery.
The founding of the Market Nursery is a significant episode in women’s activism and early years history. Fifty years ago, a group of women in desperate need of childcare took it upon themselves to make something happen. It was an achievement against all the odds.
Sue Finch (pictured left) is one of the two women who got it started. ‘I was a single parent with a three-year-old daughter, and needed to work, but the only nurseries in Hackney were for children who were “at risk”. Together with friends we went door to door asking who else needed a nursery; almost every woman who opened the door did. It took a year to get the community nursery open, but it is still there – a tribute to everyone who helped.’
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