Family reunited with Leeds ancestor’s wedding dress from 1910

However, during their visit to see the dress, they were “fascinated” to find pieces of confetti from her wedding still caught up in the fabric.

Mrs Slater said her grandmother had always encouraged her three daughters to champion women’s rights, advising them to “get your certificates and qualifications and then you can live an independent life, and be dependent on no man”.

Lily died in April 1969, aged 85, but her legacy lived on through her daughters and eight grandchildren, seven of who followed in her footsteps and became teachers.

Mrs Slater, herself a retired teacher and headteacher, said: “My grandmother’s achievements were really quite exceptional for that period in time.

“Women didn’t really go to work back then, let alone study and get qualifications.

“So considering that, it’s not surprising that she was part of the suffragette movement because she had been able to realise her own ambitions in a way that 99% of other women couldn’t.”