Florence Lindsey obituary

My mother, Florence Lindsey, who has died aged 104, was a secretary and small business manager who became an active Labour party member in Lambeth, south London.

She was born in Lambeth, eldest of five daughters of Florence (nee Meredith) and Arthur Cole. Her mother had been a suffragette and a founder member of the Vauxhall Labour party. Her father, a painter and decorator, was a campaigner for workers’ rights who sometimes found himself unemployed because of his views.