PC Properties News Release for Student Accommodation In Sheffield & It’s Association With The Edwardian Suffragette Movement

The pleasant and leafy suburb of Broomhill is home to some of the most desirable student accommodation in Sheffield.

In particular, the impressive Marlborough Road, location of very attractive Victorian residential properties, provides one of the most sociable mixes of residential and student housing in Sheffield

PC Properties who are one of the leading providers of student housing in Sheffield, can offer a comprehensive of student accommodation in this very attractive and desirable area.

PC Properties No. 6, Marlborough Road is a superb seven bedroom student house located at the end of Marlborough Road where it meets with Northumberland Road.

The tenants of many student properties in Sheffield, and who live on Marlborough Road may be unaware that 45, Marlborough Road was the home and work place of Adela Pankhurst, daughter of Emiline Pankhurst, founder of the British Suffragette movement, who lead the fight for women’s rights, and most significantly helped to win the right for women to vote which only came about in 1928

Adela Pankhurst came to Sheffield in 1910 and lived at 45, Marlborough Road until 1911, where she used the house as a base for the suffragette movement. I think she would be very proud to find that as a result of her suffragette movement, Marlborough Road is now one of the main centres for student properties Sheffield and is home to young women studying for degrees which was essentially a male domain and would have been unheard of in the early part of the 20^th century

45, Marlborough Road has been previously utilised for student flats in Sheffield, but has been unoccupied for some time, resulting in vandalism and is sadly now in a poor state of disrepair. However, the property has been recently purchased and renovation works will hopefully soon commence.

There cannot be many Sheffield student houses which can lay claim to hosting such an influential and important civil rights leader as Adela Pankhurst.  

The residents of the Broomhill area are aiming to raise funds for a plaque in honour of Marlborough Roads most famous resident, Adela Pankhurst (born 1885 – died 1961)