Jean Robinson
Jean Robinson, CBE; JP; was the first female mayor of Blackpool, Lancashire from 1968–1969, after having been member of the town council for 14 years.
She served as a Magistrate in the Juvenile Court and was President of the Blackpool Soroptomists.
She was the daughter of an Ashton-Under-Lyne cotton spinner, orphaned as a child and at the age of 14 was ‘mother’ of a household.
Jean and her husband Noel, ran the café at Abingdon Street Market for 27 years.
She was born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire and she died in Richmond, Surrey.
