Frances Lockett
(1910-1993)
1st Cotton Queen for Britain (1930) and 1st Cotton Queen in Hyde (1930)
Died aged c. 83
Commemorated on 1 plaque
Frances Burgess (neé Lockett) (1910-1993) Nineteen-year-old Frances Lockett of Hyde was voted the Town's first Cotton Queen in 1930. Later that year she became the first Cotton Queen for Britain. After receiving the award she returned home to a 20,000 strong crowd. She lived at 16 Queen Street, Hyde.
Greenfield Primary School, Queen Street, Hyde, United Kingdom where they lived near