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Welcome to our new summer issue
We’re sad to report the death of committee member and long-term supporter David Benjamin. David, best remembered as the face behind the Fish stall in Hereford’s Butter Market, will be greatly missed.
Cathedral School Officer Training Cadets (OTC), 1937: this photo, from Douglas Reed (dougreedsa@yahoo.co.uk) shows officer cadets including his grandfather, Len Pember who was awarded a free place at the School in 1932 and later trained as a glider pilot at RAF Shobdon. Read the full story in In Our Age, issue 17.
Baptist Church, Commercial Street, Hereford: Jackie Jones from Bobblestock, Hereford posted us this photo of her mother, Sylvia Stephens (nee Howells). Who’s who from left to right: Front - 2nd Sheila Bliss 3rd Hazel Wallis, 4th Iris Pugh, end Dorothy Reed; 2nd row - 4th Miss Greening, end Edna Gittings; 3rd row – 3rd Lily Pugh, 4th Sylvia Howells, 5th Pst Cornford; back – 2nd Betty Pugh, 3rd Peggy Reed, 5th Vera Pugh, 7th Ruth Gundy.
Bowling club: members of the Hereford Bowling Club with football referee, Jim Finney.
Remembering Secret Agent Violette Szabo
A summer Garden Party at the Wormelow home of Rosemary Rigby MBE celebrated the birthday of Violette Szabo and the 10th anniversary of the museum Rosemary created in her memory. Around 20 British Legion standard bearers were in attendance with the Last Post and Reveille played by Andy Hoare.
Also here was Virginia McKenna OBE who played the role of wartime spy Violette in the film, Carve Her Name With Pride. Violette was executed at Ravensbruck concentration camp, aged just 23, for being a British agent; her daughter, Tania, was four years old when she collected the George Cross, awarded by King George VI, on behalf of her mother.
Violette was there in spirit as she was at the garden party to hear over 200 visitors sing her a happy birthday, writes Rosemary Lillico.
Celia Brown with, centre, Virginia McKenna (the actress who played Violette in the film, Carve Her Name With Pride) and Tania Szabo, Violette’s daughter. (Photo: Rosemary Lillico)
Press Releases
Market memories hit the book stalls (PDF 24KB)
In the Munitions (PDF 24KB)
Various newspaper clippings (PDF 366KB)