NETHER STOWEY FEMALE FRIENDLY SOCIETY CLUB DAY WALK

Nether Stowey, Somerset, England 21st June 2014. The Nether Stowey Female Friendly Society; the Womens Walk on Club Day to the grave at St Marys Church of their founder, local businessman and friend of Coleridge, Tom Poole. He realised in 1806 that women needed help in times of sickness, in childbirth, in widowhood, and in old age. Every member subscribed according to her means, and thrift and self-help were encouraged. The Society thrived and two hundred years later ladies and girls of the...
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Nether Stowey, Somerset, England 21st June 2014. The Nether Stowey Female Friendly Society; the Womens Walk on Club Day to the grave at St Marys Church of their founder, local businessman and friend of Coleridge, Tom Poole. He realised in 1806 that women needed help in times of sickness, in childbirth, in widowhood, and in old age. Every member subscribed according to her means, and thrift and self-help were encouraged. The Society thrived and two hundred years later ladies and girls of the village celebrate all he did for their community. Local women and flower girls meet at the village "cross".
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