Career
She marched against welfare cuts, austerity and the closure of Whittington Hospital in North London. Bower was born in 1905 in Dalston, East London, when King Edward VII was the monarch and women were not given the right to vote in general elections. She was the seventh of ten children, and worked in schools, fashion, business and cinema and founded the first womans association.
In 1923, Bower joined the Labour Party at the age of 17.
As a Labour party member, Bower participated in the 1926 General Strike and the Battle of Cable Street in 1936. Her husband was Reginald Bower.
During World World War II, she ran a refugee hostel for people departing Czechoslovakia. In her remaining years, she was invited to several political campaigning events.
She enjoyed opera and liked listening to Caruso, She was 108 when she died, two months after giving a speech at a labour conference and campaigned for peace and equal rights, her last words were "Ban the Bomb for ever".
