Marie Stopes blue plaque

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# Marie Stopes and Whitfield Street Standing before this elegant Georgian building on Whitfield Street, you're positioned at a pivotal moment in reproductive medicine and women's rights—the 1925 relocation of Britain's first birth control clinic, a move that shifted Marie Stopes's revolutionary wor...

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Whitfield Street, WC1

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The first birth control clinic was opened by Dr. Marie Stopes in 1921 at Holloway and removed here in 1925