A SMALL piece of history has been planted in Whitchurch, marking the centenary of a major international women’s organisation,
Sue Fawcett, president of the town’s Inner Wheel club, and last year’s president Clair Schafer, have added two Margarette Golding roses to the flower bed at the end of Pepper Street.
Sue said: “We’re enormously proud of our history and of the achievements of our own Whitchurch club.
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“And none of it would ever have happened without a woman like Margarette Golding whose vision started it all.”
The brightly coloured butter yellow flowers, which bloom twice a year, in summer and autumn, will commemorate the centenary celebrations of what is now one of the largest women's voluntary organisations in the world.
Margarette Golding was born in Wales, at Blaenau Ffestiniog, raised in Hay on Wye, and was a nurse in Manchester when she founded and named the first Inner Wheel club which held its initial meeting, there, in January 1924.
It now has 108,000 members in 3,895 clubs spread across 104 countries and has representation at the United Nations.
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