Book Celebrates 100 Years Of Village Life
Written by HFM News on 5th April 2019
A book featuring the history of Medbourne’s Women’s Institute over the last 100 years has been unveiled today.
Team effort…from left, Hazel Wallace, Jenny Sandars, Meriel Godfrey president, Helen Roberts team leader, Jean Clarke and Pat Nelson of Medbourne cum Holt WI with their Centenary Book
PICTURE: ANDY CARPENTER
Members of the Medbourne Cum Holt WI have produced it to mark their centenary, using original minute books, records, old newspaper cuttings , letters and memoirs.
They wanted to illustrate the involvement the group has had on village life over the years and have been showing it off for the first time at the launch event at the Village Hall.
PICTURE: ANDY CARPENTER
The book gives a window into village life in rural Leicestershire and how it has coped, and continued, as the world has changed – from the final years of the First World War, the Great Depression, Second World War, post-war boom years, and through the turmoil of the 1970s, and into the modern information age.
It was created by the WI members Helen Roberts, Pat Nelson, Jenny Sandars, Hazel Wallace and Jean Clark.
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