Members of Wraxall WI at a socially distanced get together in the summer.
- Credit: Charlotte Fry
A Women’s Institute (WI) has celebrated its centenary year in different circumstances.
In normal times, Wraxall WI meets on the third Thursday of the month at 7.30pm in The Cross Tree Centre, behind Wraxall Church.
The group’s very first meeting was held on November 25, 1920, which was organised by a Mrs Brew. The president was Mrs Davey and the population of Wraxall at the time was 900 people.
The first proper minutes were not taken until September 1922, Mrs Brew had died the previous year which had obviously caused the group some difficulties. Mrs Davey was still president and there were 40 members who met in the hut’.