An Ugly Rush! Sir Thomas Stepney Green Gate Tavern at the

Green Gate Tavern at the junction of City Road and Bath Street

(Islington Spa)

Top left view shows St James's Palace

Note the tramlines

An Ugly Rush! Sir Thomas Stepney Green Gate Tavern at the'An Ugly Rush!', 1870. Woman's Vote Bill. A stout John Bull, the representative of the British people or, in this case, British men, puts his back to the door upon which a number of women pound with their various demands. The previous year, women ratepayers had been given the right to vote in local elections. However, a Bill had recently been introduced proposing that women should be granted a parliamentary franchise. The proposal had been rejected,