The school they decided to spareSourced
Two suffrage campaigners entered a school.
They liked the room too much to burn it.
In April 1913, two windows at an old school in Birmingham, England, were forced open, but no fire was set. A blackboard message said the two suffrage campaigners had been charmed by the room and had abandoned their plan to destroy it. Historic England records the incident as part of the suffrage campaign's history.
They left a message
instead of a fire.
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