WOMEN who fought for voting rights in Potters Bar 100 years ago are being honoured in an exhibition.

The stories of women’s rights campaigners will go on display at Potters Bar Museum, in Darkes Lane, this weekend.

Exhibition organiser Arnold Davey said: "A lot of young women take it for granted that they have the right to vote because it’s something that has always been there for them, not knowing that women had to struggle for this right and this exhibition's aim is to clear the ignorance among the youngsters."

The museum hopes to show visitors to how and why the movement begun, and how it progressed from a peaceful protest to the more headline-grabbing tactics, and final success in achieving an equal voting age in 1928.

The exhibition will run until the end of December and admission is free.

The museum, at the Wyllyots Centre, is open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 2.30pm to 4.30pm, and on Saturdays from 11am to 1pm. The exhibition stays open all day Sunday, when there is an Antique Fair in the Centre.