Annie Huggett

Her family brought her to Barking in the east of London when they moved into one of the borough's first council houses on King Edward's Road in 1903.

From the age of 18 she organized suffragette campaign meetings at the Three Lamps public house on Barking Broadway.

[4] Huggett was a republican and when she reached her 100th birthday, her family hid from her the traditional congratulatory telegram from Elizabeth II.

[1] She died on 29 December 1995, at the age of 103, and was buried at Barking's Rippleside Cemetery, following a funeral at which the labour anthem "The Red Flag" was sung.

[5] The London Mayor, Sadiq Khan remarked on Barking being Huggett's home and lying at one end of the line when he announced the renaming in February 2024.