Supporting Sheffield’s Women of Steel

Rosalind Watchorn Solicitors are proud to sponsor the Star Walk this year – with the aim of raising money towards the Women of Steel statue.

We have our roots in Sheffield and the local community and see the statue as a fitting memorial to all those brave and feisty local women who kept the steel mills working during the first and second world war.

We specialise in working with older Sheffield folk and the most rewarding part of our job is just listening to their stories of lives gone by and their contributions.  We are all aware of what our fathers and grandfathers did during the two World Wars.  But without the women of Sheffield there would not have been tanks and fighter planes;  and they continued with their vital work throughout bombing raids doing long and exhausting shifts in the heat of the steelmills.   It is a shame that recognition was not given some time ago when more of these women would have been able to see their contribution was acknowledged.

We are a firm made up mainly of female lawyers – 5 out of the 6 solicitors here are women.  It is good to be reminded that the struggle to be recognised within the workplace started not with the changes in the 1960s and 1970s, but many years before when British women took the place of the men and showed what they could achieve.  I just hope that our daughters and granddaughters will remember this – and surely such a magnificent statue will be one way  that they will learn of our heritage.

We are hoping that many of our older clients will get behind these wonderful women and join us all on the walk next month.