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FF wk10: Stevenshof

FlickrFriday Theme for week 10: Women's history month.

 

Stevenshof is a borough of Leiden, NL with 95% of the streetnames named after female heroes. Women's voting rights activists, women who part of the resistance in the WWII, feminists in the 60s and 70s, etc.

 

The left bank is the Jantina van Hoorn kade. Named after the woman who founded a school for higher eduction for girls in the first half of the 20th century.

The right bank is the Margareta van Simons kade. Named after a female resistance member in WWII.

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