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The East London Suffragettes website tells us:

The Mother’s Arms

On the corner of Old Ford Road and St Stephen’s Road was a disused public house, which at one time was called the Gunmakers’ Arms, as it lay opposite a weapons factory. The East London Federation of Suffragettes set to work refurbishing the place, and in April 1915, the Mother’s Arms opened as a mother and baby clinic, free milk depot and day nursery.

The project was a huge success. In 1916 writer Israel Zangwill said that “…the hope of the world lies in changing the Gunmaker’s Arms into the Mother’s Arms.”