VIDEO: Emily remembered on International Women's Day

Crowds turned out for an annual service in Northumberland this afternoon to pay tribute to inspirational women, including Northumberland Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison.
The Right Reverend Christine Hardman, Bishop of Newcastle, event organiser Penni Blythe and Reader Vivienne Sommerville during the service at St Mary's Church in Morpeth organised by Emily Inspires! and Northumberland County Council - tributes were laid at the grave of Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison on International Women's Day.  Picture by Jane Coltman.The Right Reverend Christine Hardman, Bishop of Newcastle, event organiser Penni Blythe and Reader Vivienne Sommerville during the service at St Mary's Church in Morpeth organised by Emily Inspires! and Northumberland County Council - tributes were laid at the grave of Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison on International Women's Day.  Picture by Jane Coltman.
The Right Reverend Christine Hardman, Bishop of Newcastle, event organiser Penni Blythe and Reader Vivienne Sommerville during the service at St Mary's Church in Morpeth organised by Emily Inspires! and Northumberland County Council - tributes were laid at the grave of Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison on International Women's Day. Picture by Jane Coltman.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, the service at St Mary’s Church in Morpeth was conducted by an all-female clergy – including the Bishop of Newcastle, The Rt Revd Christine Hardman.

It included hymns, songs, thoughts and prayers and young people were among those to discuss the impact women like Emily Davison have had and what issues are critical for women’s equality today.

The Right Reverend Christine Hardman, Bishop of Newcastle, event organiser Penni Blythe and Reader Vivienne Sommerville during the service at St Mary's Church in Morpeth organised by Emily Inspires! and Northumberland County Council - tributes were laid at the grave of Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison on International Women's Day.  Picture by Jane Coltman.The Right Reverend Christine Hardman, Bishop of Newcastle, event organiser Penni Blythe and Reader Vivienne Sommerville during the service at St Mary's Church in Morpeth organised by Emily Inspires! and Northumberland County Council - tributes were laid at the grave of Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison on International Women's Day.  Picture by Jane Coltman.
The Right Reverend Christine Hardman, Bishop of Newcastle, event organiser Penni Blythe and Reader Vivienne Sommerville during the service at St Mary's Church in Morpeth organised by Emily Inspires! and Northumberland County Council - tributes were laid at the grave of Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison on International Women's Day. Picture by Jane Coltman.
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The service was also organised by the Emily Inspires! group.

Following the service, Northumberland County Council Civic Head Alan Sambrook and others present laid flowers on Emily Davison’s grave on behalf of the authority and the people of the county.

She was arrested on nine occasions, protested by means of hunger strikes and was force-fed 49 times while incarcerated.

In her most famous moment of protest, she stepped in front of King George V’s horse Anmer at the Epsom Derby on June 4, 1913, and suffered injuries that proved fatal four days later.