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2. Members of the NFWI Executive Committee 1937 with Lady Denman seated in the centre

3. Grace Hadow was Lady Denman’s Vice Chairman from 1918–1940. She was an academic from Oxford, an outstanding public speaker and a fearless mountaineer

4. Dame Frances Farrer, NFWI General Secretary 1929–1959, known for ringing ministers before breakfast

5. Edith Jones and her nephew Leonard, c. 1943

6. Edith Jones with her husband Jack and her great-niece, Chris Downes

7. Clara Milburn, prolific wartime diarist and member of Balsall Common WI

8. Edith Jones’s diary entries for the last three days of the Second World War

9. Thousands of tons of fruit were boiled in WI preservation centres

10. Six canning vans were donated to the WI by the American Federation of Business and Professional Women

11. Peggy and Marjorie Sumner. Peggy (left) joined Dunham Massey WI in 1938 and was still a member in 2012

12. Ruth Toosey was the secretary of Barrow WI during the war

13. Sybil Norcott joined her local WI at the age of 12. She says ‘the WI is a way of life’

14. Dr Gwen Bark was a GP and encouraged young mothers to join their WIs to have a voice on matters concerning their children

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