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• 1950's

  The early history of the league can be traced back to 1957.The league was primarily formed by the Ascot Rotary Club.

• 1957 - Bracknell Parish Council
  Minutes of Meeting Published by Local Paper
  (Extract Only)

  Coun. Tolworthy also reported that Ascot Rotary Club was considering the formation of a League of friends for Heatherwood Hospital, and would be approaching people and organisations in Bracknell to ask for their help.
  Under the new hospital scheme for the district, Heatherwood hospital will serve Bracknell.
  Coun. Bowyer pointed out that the Friends did great work in hospitals, helping to provide them with the things that the hospital boards could not supply, and visiting patients who had no one else to visit them.
  He felt that it was up to council members to join the league as individuals, and hoped that other people in the area would support the scheme.
  Extract Wokingham Times 31/05/1957

   

• 1958 - Friends are Ready for Heatherwood hospital

  A League of Friends for Ascot's Heatherwood Hospital is now almost a certainty. A meeting to form the league will be held in The New Hall, Heatherwood Hospital, on February 13. Representatives of all interested organisations have been invited to attend.

  The league is being sponsored by the Rotary Club of Asco The meeting will also try to ascertain whether such a league will receive the support of the community.

  Rotary President Douglas W. Butt told the Times this week that a League of Friends will serve a useful purpose in view of the fact that Heatherwood Hospital is being enlarged to take patients from the New Town of Bracknell.

  Limited Resources
  

  Mr. Butt said that he was aware that several other associations were already interested in the hospital and were doing excellent work. "The League of Friends will not supersede these associations but would rather supplement or augment their work," he added.

  The National Health Scheme provides for the full medical care of patients, but many desirable amenities have to be delayed owing to the limited financial resources available to the hospital.

  Leagues of Friends are being formed all over the country to help provide those extras which make life in hospital more bearable.

  It's Objects
  

  The League, if formed, will work to: provide voluntary service in the hospital and to co-ordinate the assistance of other associations already interested.
  Encourage and foster the interest of the public in the patients, and support the work of Heatherwood Hospital.
  Raise funds for the provision of amenities at the hospital.
  Supplement the resources of the hospital services by voluntary effort where this is required.

  Mr. Butt appeals to all organisations in Ascot and Bracknell area who are interested in the welfare of patients in Heatherwood Hospital to send representatives to the meeting February 13.
  Extract Wokingham Times 31/01/1958

   

• 1958 - Sunningdale Women's Institute

  Members agreed to support the new League of Friends of Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot, and representatives are to attend the League's first meeting.
  Extract Wokingham Times 28/02/1958

   

• 1958 - Ascot

  Hon. Gerald Lascelles has accepted the presidency of the Heatherwood Hospital League of Friends. The League has recently been given a grant by the Easthampstead Rural District Council from the Council's Sunday Cinema Fund.
  Extract Wokingham Times 06/06/1958

   

• 1958 - Ascot

  Heatherwood Hospital League of friends at a meeting last week decided to organise a dance at the hospital in October to raise funds for their many proposed activities to help the patients.

  The League, formed earlier this year, now has 200 members and £30 in the kitty.
  Its objective is 1,000. members.
  After the proposed October dance it hopes to hold another dance in Bracknell.
  Extract Wokingham Times 25/07/1958

   

• 1958 - Ascot

  Chamber of trade is holding a dance at the Royal Ascot Hotel on Wednesday, October 1, in aid of the Heatherwood Hospital League of Friends, Dancing will be to Frank Langham and his Mayfair music.
  On October 10th. the League of Friends is holding a dance at Heatherwood Hospital at which Hon, Gerald Lascelles, President of the League, will be present.
  At the moment the League has approximately 250 members, but before long it hopes to have a membership of 1,000.
  Extract Wokingham Times 05/09/1958

   

• 1958 - Heatherwood Hospital

  League of Friends is holding its first dance at the hospital on Friday next week when the Rhythm Kings will supply music for dancing.
  There are still a few tickets available for the first big function to be held by this recently formed voluntary organisation.
  The League has already received a list of hospital requirements from the Matron. Included in the list are TV sets for the wards and a private chapel for patients and staff.
  Extract Wokingham Times 03/10/1958

   

• 1958 - Cash Needed for Hospital Tv Sets

  Two television sets were presented to Heatherwood Orthopædic Hospital last Thursday week on behalf of the hospital's League of Friends by their president, the Hon. Gerald Lascelles.

  Immediately Mr. Lascelles had switched on the set in the men's ward, it was brought into use by a number of patients allowed up for the ceremony.
  Officially presenting the sets, Mr. Lascelles explained that although over £100 had already been collected by the friends, they still had to find £40 or £50 to be out of "the red."
  "I hope that a good many people will help to raise the remainder,' invited Mr. Lascelles.

  Helpers Needed
  

  "I am very proud of the committee for their magnificent progress in such a short time."He spoke of the personal services which the League of Friends intended to carry out for the hospital services not within the scope of the Health Service.
  Many more voluntary helpers would be needed, said Mr Lascelles, when the hospital expanded to take e general patients from the Bracknell area.
  He hoped the television sets would help to relieve the tedium of those patients who had to stay in hospital for a long period.
  Extract Wokingham Times 28/11/1958

   

• 1958 - Bracknell Carnival Profit

  Bracknell Carnival, 1958, made a profit of £476 13s. 5d. This was disclosed at a meeting of the Bracknell Carnival Association Committee, held at Kew Works on Monday evening. With £172 3s. 11d. in hand from last year's carnival the Association has a total of £649 4s.

  The committee unanimously decided to recommend the distribution of £400 among local organisations. The balance will be held over for year's carnival in case of a rainy weekend.

  £15; Bracknell Dramatic Club,
  £15; Bracknell Boxing Club,
  £15; Old Age Pensioners,
  £10; Bracknell Ladies' Hockey Club,
  £5; Bracknell Girl Guides and Brownies,
  £15: Bracknell Old Boys' Football Club,
  £10; Heatherwood League of Friends,
  £20: Bracknell Cricket Club. £30 (Total £400).
  Extract Wokingham Times 05/12/1958

   

• 1960's

  This decade was the building block for membership, but by the end it was losing members.

   

• 1967 - Dance to Aid Chapel

  The League of Friends of Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot, are holding a dance tomorrow at the Lecture Hall when Lionel Humphries and his orchestra will be playing.

  "We are still in the red for the hospital chapel and hope that this dance will pay off some of the outstanding £150," said the Friends chairman, Mr. John Coxwell today.
  The chapel, which cost £7,500 to build, was completed a couple of years ago.
  Extract Evening Post 13/04/1967

   

• Hospital Seeks More Support

  A plea for more support from Bracknell new town was made by Mr. John Coxwell, chairman of Heatherwood Hospital League of Friends, at last night's annual meeting at the Ascot hospital.
  Heatherwood was Bracknell's general hospital just as much as Ascot's, he said. And with the new maternity wing being built shortly Bracknell's future babies would be born there.

  Membership was currently just under 700, said the chairman, but he would like to see it swell to 2,000.

  He reported that the hospital chapel built by the league and completed three years ago was at last paid for.
  It cost £7,500. Officers: president, Major General Sir David Dawnay (re-elected),
  chairman, Mr. John Coxwell (re-elected).
  secretary, Mrs. Gwen Wallis,
  committee, Mr. G. Bullock, Miss E. Tilley, Mrs. M. Etteridge, Mrs. A. Pack, Mrs. M. Corey, Mrs. Nicholas, and Mrs. Storey (re-elected).
  Extract Evening Post 28/06/1968

   

• 1968 - League of Friends of Heatherwood Hospital

  Jumble sale
  will be held on Saturday, November 16, in the Social Hall.
  Heatherwood Hospital. Ascot. at 2.15pm.
  Offers of jumble to Assistant Matron
  Extract Evening Post 14/11/1968

   

• 1970 - League of Friends

  The annual meeting of the League of Friends to Heatherwood Hospital. Ascot. will be held tonight in the social hall of the hospital.
  Extract Evening Post 23/06/1970

   

• 1970 - Friends' Bid to Boost Their League

  A membership drive is being launched by the League of Friends of Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot, to boost the 600 membership back to the 1,000 odd of a few years ago.

  This was the decision made at the annual meeting of the friends. And something must be done about the apparent lack of enthusiasm among existing members, said chairman John Coxwell.

  Mr Coxwell said that apathy among members may be because the league has had no large project to work on since the completion of the hospital chapel.
  But until the hospital expansion plans were announced, he said, it was difficult to get down to work on any particular project.

  Despite the drop in member- ship, treasurer Arthur Davis said the league had a healthy profit of £823. Donations were higher than in the previous year.

  'Comforts'
  

  Hospital" comforts" supplied by the league during the year included a large television set for the nurses' rest room. and equipment for the hospital's internal record request programme.

  Lady Alexander of Tunis was elected the new president. She replaces Sir David Dawnay who left the district on his retirement last autumn as Clerk of Ascot Racecourse.

  The chairman and treasurer were both re-elected, and Mrs Mason, of Kennel Ride, Ascot, who has been acting secretary for the past few months, was officially elected to the post.
  Extract Evening Post 25/06/1970

   

• 1972 - £2 Mums

  The first dozen babies to be born at Ascot's new maternity wing at Heatherwood Hospital scheduled to open next Wednesday will receive £2 Premium Bonds from the hospital's League of Friends.
  Extract Evening Post 09/03/1972

   

• 1972 - A Winner

  The first baby at the new £750,000 maternity unit at Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot, arrived last night to win a Premium Bond.

  25-year-old Mrs Marilyn Cheryl, the 8lb daughter of Brundish, of Queen's Road. Sunninghill, receives a £2 bond from Heatherwood's League of Friends.
  Extract Evening Post 24/03/1972

   

• 1972 - A Few Words of Praise for North Ascot's Miss Tilley

  Last week I wrote of the League of Friends Church Hill House Bracknell and all the work they had put in over the years to improve the lot of the Church Hill House patients.

  If I write now of the League of Friends of Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot, it is not to redress the balance, because I have written enough about them in the past, but to single out one of them.

  She is Miss Ethel Alice Tilley of Fernbank Road, North Ascot, a sprightly 87 years old, who is credited with recruiting no less than 409 of the League's 650 members.

  Most of the old timers in Ascot need no introduction to Miss Tilley, for she taught infants at Ascot Heath school for 31 years before retiring in 1945.

  The Heatherwood League of Friends itself was not launched until 1959, but when it was, Miss Tilley offered to go out and canvass for members.
  She had of course the inestimable advantage of knowing more about the early days of some of the members than even they themselves could recall, but whatever authority she wielded she has today 13 collectors and herself still collects personally the annual subscriptions from 70 houses.

  "I don't remember anyone actually accusing me of getting paid for the League. but I have been accused of it in the past, when I used to collect for St Dunstans. Both, let me say are purely voluntary charities."

  Active
  

  She was an active member of the League's committee up until two years ago, but now feels she is getting too old and to prove it she is planning to start up a drive to find more collectors, whose job it will be to find new members on the new estates springing up in North Ascot.
  "Often people I ask to join want to know what is happening in the League, but few are willing to come along to find out at the Annual General Meeting.

  The next meeting is at the Hospital on June 27th. That is when they should come along and voice their opinions and make suggestions for raising money.
  If they do not come how do we know what they want?" No one would argue with that, and so I asked her on a final note, something about her days at Ascot Heath School.
  "There are some pupils who still stay in my mind and they have turned out very much like they were when they were little.'

  I did not inquire whether Mr Gordon Butcher present Chairman of the League and one of her former pupils fell into this category.
  I simply asked Mr Butcher what he thought of Miss Tilley's efforts on behalf of the League. "Marvellous", he said. And not everyone says that about their teacher.
  Extract Ascot & Bracknell Times 01/06/1972

   

• 1972 - From Diana with love

  D-I-A-N-A D-o-r-s- one of the most well-known autographs from the acting world wound up on a leg plaster at the Heatherwood Hospital fete.
  And the lucky lady was Mrs Sheila Brimacombe, of Plymouth, whose broken leg sported the famous name after Miss Dors stopped for a chat.
  Extract Evening Post 20/06/1972

   

  Comment:- The above article was accompanied by a photo.
  The photo showed Miss Dors signing the plaster,Looking on is Miss Dors' husband Mr Alan Lake.
  Copyright prevents us from displaying the photo here.

• 1973 - Ascot Bank Man Dies

  Mr Stanley Maskell. a man who took a very full part in the life of Ascot and Sunningdale for many years, died in Heatherwood Hospital on Monday. He was 67. Mr Maskell was well known as branch manager of Barclays Bank in Ascot, and he held this position for 14 years until he retired in 1966.

  At that time, he had been with the bank for more than 43 years in various branches.

  During his busy life he was treasurer of Ascot Rotary Club, treasurer and founder member of the League of Friends of Heatherwood Hospital, a governor of the Barclay School for Partially Sighted Girls, a member of Sunningdale Parish Council, a governor of St George's School in Ascot, and treasurer of Holy Trinity Church in Sunningdale. He was also a member of the church choir.

  Mr Maskell, who lived at Fairmead, Church Road. Sunningdale, leaves a widow a daughter and three grandchildren.
  Extract Wokingham Times 20/12/1973

   

• 1974 - 'Nice to See You' Bruce Forsyth at Heatherwood Hospital Fete

  "Nice to see you, to see you nice," crooned Bruce Forsyth as he strolled through the wards of Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot, on Saturday after opening the annual fete.

  He stopped and talked to the patients, cracking jokes and asking them what they had done to get into the hospital.

  The atmosphere of the fete taking place outside in cold winds was brought into the warm wards for everyone to enjoy.

  The League of Friends of Heatherwood Hospital were pleased at the huge turn-out of people who crowded on the rough grass in the middle of the hospital complex and spent their money for the benefit of the patients.

  The money raised will be spent on a new patients' radio service. The present one is regarded by many as due for retirement.

  Helping the people to spend their money were the Lions Club and a group of people from the British Glass Blowing Society who gave demonstrations on making glass animals. Bruce Forsyth was presented with two glass Bambis by the society.

  There was something for all ages in all the sideshows, 'stalls, guessing games, and events. For children who wanted to get off their feet for a while there were pony rides and train rides.

  Many of the wards held their own stalls inside or in a corridor, attracting welcome visitors to the patients. Some of them who could get out and about with a little help, and ventured outside mingled with the crowd.
  Extract Ascot & Bracknell Times 26/09/1974

   

  Comment:- The above article was accompanied by six photos.
  The first photo captioned:On a tour of the wards Bruce Forsyth stops for a chat with Mr Frank Willcocks.
  The second photo captioned:Bruce Forsyth with a group of happy youngsters in the children's ward.
  The third photo captioned: Among the many visitors to the fete were members of the Masden family from Martin's Drive, Wokingham. Left to right are Rob Masden, Mrs Beryl Masden and Philip Masden. In the wheelchair, as the result of a broken leg, is eight-year-old Linda Masden.
  The fourth photo captioned:Sister Wendy Morris and Nurse Kathy Waters with Bruce Forsyth's autograph on their cap and skirt.
  The fifth photo captioned: Mr Derek Newell making glass animals at the fete. This demonstration attracted a lot of interest from the visitors.
  The sixth photo captioned: Kathryn and lain Hubberley with a Teddy Bear they won at the fete.
  Copyright prevents us from displaying the photos here.

Fete 1975 Advert

• 1975 - Double Boost For Heatherwood

  Words by Greg Freeman
  Feeling the need to integrate the community in Ascot, two leading local charities joined forces on Saturday in a unique fundraising exercise.

  The League of Friends of Heatherwood Hospital held their fete in the hospital grounds and raised £350 to finish the job of installing the radio system at the hospital and providing for a DJ network to keep the patients in touch.

  And half a mile away at Ascot Racecourse Ascot Round Table were doing their bit by staging their own Grand Prix of go-karts entered by other Round Tables from a wide area, including Alton, Hampshire and Harrow, North London.

  League of Friends chairman Mr Ron Mason explained: "We are trying to integrate the community more. There is lack of awareness of what we are trying to do for the hospital, and this kind of thing helps bring people in."

  The League of Friends need £10,000 to achieve their dream of a radio link-up with other hospitals in the area, such as Maidenhead.

  Mini-buses ran a shuttle service between the two events. The Round Table's Ascot Grand Prix was staged at No. 10 Car Park on the Racecourse, and was the first of what the organisers hope will become an annual event.

  
  Hilarious
  

  Pedal go-karts of all peculiar shapes and sizes were hurtling round the track at as near break neck speed as some could muster. The results were often hilarious.

  Ascot Round Table press officer David Morris said breathlessly after completing two laps: "It's a killer."" Each Round Table were sponsored according to the number of laps their kart completed, and the money raised_would go to their own charity. But all money from the Grand Prix will go to raised by Ascot Round Table Heatherwood.

  The Round Tables, 18 of them, aimed to complete a 100 laps round the track, undoubtedly spurred on by the promise that each go-kart driver would receive a free pint of beer. Dodgy parts of the course such as "Table Corner" and "Mewes Hairpin," were treated with great respect by the drivers. After the races, competitors relaxed in the evening to music, food and dancing.

  
  Winners
  

  Bracknell Round Table won the Best Kart Cup, while Bagshot completed 48 miles in the fastest time of the day, three and three quarter hours.
  Egham were close runners- up, finishing only 50 yards behind. they won the Team Challenge Cup as consolation.
  The Inter-Area Challenge Rose Bowl was won by Area 27 (Middlesex).
  Ascot Round Table's own team completed a creditable 90 laps of the course.

  Opener
  

  Mrs Jane Beaumont, wife of Captain Beaumont, the clerk of Ascot Racecourse, opened the League of Friends Fete at Heatherwood Hospital and afterwards toured the hospital sideshows were the tombola, wards chatting to patients. Among a host of stalls and books, darts and a bottle stall.

  For the children there were rides on a model train and ponies. Teas, cakes and other refreshments were provided by Ascot Ladies Circle on their own stall.
  And Ascot Heath Golf Club gave prospective golfers a chance to check on their putting skills at a special Putting Alley.
  Extract Ascot & Bracknell Times 25/09/1975

   

  Comment:- The above article was accompanied by nine photos.
  The first photo captioned: Enjoying the sun at Heatherwood Hospital Fete on Saturday afternoon was this cheerful group.
  The second photo captioned: Chris Floyd, six, and furry companion at the Heatherwood Fete on Saturday.
  The third photo captioned: The pony rides proved a big attraction.
  The fourth photo captioned: Two year old Philip Smith with vegetable basket,one of the many prizes at the fete.
  The fifth photo captioned: A tense moment in the pits as the Ascot team crowd round while last minute adjustments are made before the start of the Kart racing.
  The sixth photo captioned: Ready and stripped down for action the Ascot Round Table team.
  The seventh photo captioned: The victorious Bracknell team line-up after the race.
  The eighth photo captioned: A competitor on his way to the starting grid.The drivers found this form of karting "a real killer."
  The ninth photo captioned: BOB Knight of the Bracknell team "tops up" with oil.
  Copyright prevents us from displaying the photos here.

• 1975 - Ascot's Miss Baines Dies

  Well-known Ascot resident, Miss Adele Mowbray Baines, died on Friday, aged 87.

  For the last 30 years, since her retirement, she has lived at Parkside, Fernbank Road, Ascot, with a former Ascot school-mistress.

  Miss Baines, had led an adventurous life before settling down in Ascot, She was a governess with a French family in Paris during the war, and fled the city when the Germans arrived.
  She left with the two boys who were her charges, and took the last boat to leave Boulogne for England. Her charges, and their family, have never forgotten her kindness and courage, and remained in close contact with her.

  Miss Baines was a hard worker for the League of Friends of Heatherwood Hospital, and was a personality in the Ascot area.

  Her funeral takes place today, Thursday at St Peter's church. Cranbourne.
  Extract Ascot & Bracknell Times 11/09/1975

   

• 1976 - Heatherwood Fete Special

  The fete coverage in the paper this year, consisted of two pictures captioned:
  Top. An introduction to the world of model railways as this little boy concentrates on the mechanics at Ascot's Heatherwood Hospital fete.
  Above. The awe and mystique of the railroad grips all generations at Heatherwood Hospital fete.
  Copyright prevents us from displaying the photos here.

  
  Extract Ascot & Bracknell Times 09/09/1976

   

• 1978 - Ascot

  A fair will be held in the social hall of Ascot's Heatherwood Hospital on Saturday.
  It will begin at 2.00pm and there will be a large variety of stalls to select goods from.

  The fair is being organised by the League of Friends of Heatherwood and all proceeds will go towards the complete redecorating and refurnishing of the Nurses Home.
  Extract Ascot & Bracknell Times 23/11/1978

   

• 1979 - 21 this year

  Heatherwood Hospital's League of Friends celebrate their 21st birthday this year and to celebrate they will be holding a wine and cheese party in the hospital social hall on May 24.
  Extract Bracknell Times 10/05/1979

   

• 1981 - Hospital Gets Cash Boost

  The League of Friends of Heatherwood Hospital had a quiet but successful year. That was the message of chairman Mr Ron Mason at the League's annual meeting at the Ascot hospital.

  And more than £2,000 was raised towards a mobile theatre trolley the hospital urgently needed, he said. Much of the money came from the annual fete and Mr Mason thought this year's fete, to be held on September 12, would be even more successful.

  "We are indebted to the ladies who willingly give up their time to run the trolley shop for patients. And the hospital radio has been going from strength to strength," said Mr Mason. Mr Andy Morton, of the radio staff, reported on the growth of the radio station
  Extract Evening Post 11/07/1981

   

• 1988 - League's Fete

  The League of Friends of Heatherwood Hospital, in Ascot, are holding their annual Summer Fete on Saturday June 4 in the hospital grounds starting at 12.0pm.

  Former BBC news reader Kenneth Kendal, now of Treasure Hunt fame, will officially open the fete.
  Organisers hope to raise about £2,000 from the variety of stalls and tombola that will be laid on so they can buy hospital equipment.
  Extract Ascot & Bracknell & Wokingham Times 26/05/1988

   

  The hospital radio service had a member of staff going round capturing photo's of the day. On their website you can relive the day.

• 1988 - Good News for Fete at Hospital

  Television star Kenneth Kendall braved Saturday's rainstorms to open Heatherwood Hospital's charity fete.
  And despite a torrential downpour which left Mr Kendall marooned in a marquee, organisers raised an estimated £2,000 for the hospital.

  The fete was organised through the League of Friends which raises money for the hospital.
  The ex-newscaster was asked to open the fete because of his work with the mental illness charity MIND.
  And after declaring the fete open, Mr Kendall headed straight for the plant stall where he bought a pot plant.
  All the money raised will provide new equipment for, the hospital.
  Extract Bracknell Times 16/06/1988

   

  Comment:- The above article was accompanied by a photo.
  The photo captioned: Kate Baker, Kenneth Kendall, Vivienne Lewis and Gavin Fawkes
  Copyright prevents us from displaying the photo here.

• 1994 - Part of £10,000 Hospital Pledge

  There were friendly smiles all round at Heatherwood Hospital when staff were presented with a new examination couch for the Outpatients Department.

  The couch was donated by the hospital's League of Friends, which has pledged to spend over £10,000 on equipment over the coming year, and the Victoria Hall Fund. And chairman Roy Ryman was on hand to examine the couch, along with two dressing trolleys, also donated.

  Jackie Lawton, Public Relations Manager for the Trust, said: "The hospital is delighted to receive these gifts. We have a very enthusiastic and generous League of Friends here at Heatherwood. "The ladies of the League's Trolley shop and volunteers at Radio Heatherwood always give their time and energy very willingly. We are most grateful for their support."
  Extract Ascot & Bracknell Times 27/01/1994

   

  Comment:- The above article was accompanied by a photo.
  The photo showed Sister Margaret Shepherd with Alec Willoughby, from the Victoria Fund, plus Tom Griffiths and Roy Ryman of the League of Friends, at the presentation
  Copyright prevents us from displaying the photo here.

• 1997 - Fundraisers at Heatherwood

  Hospital in Ascot have bought an electro cardiographer for patients. The machine, used to measure heart rate, was bought thanks to a £10,000 donation made by the League of Friends of Heatherwood Hospital.

  The league is a volunteer group which raises funds for the hospital. The machine will be used in the surgical pre-assessment department where patients receiving non-emergency surgery are prepared for theatre.

  Hospital spokesman Sister Theresa. Asher said patients would not have to be their heart rates measured thanks to the wheeled to a separate department to have portable machine. She said: "This is a great advantage for patients with limited mobility. it will allow nurses to spend more time with their patients to help prepare them emotionally and physically for their treatment.

  We are very grateful to the league for supporting us in this way."
  Extract Ascot & Bracknell Times 17/07/1997

   

  Comment:- The above article was accompanied by a photo.
  The photo showed From left: Dorothea Standley, Ada Hawkes, Marian Rathbone, Caroline Love, Surjeet Panesar, Theresa Asher, Peter Standley and Roy Ryman.
  Copyright prevents us from displaying the photo here.