ELDERLY residents all over Malvern received a bowl of bulbs and a visit from a member of the Inner Wheel Club as part of the organisation's Founder's Day celebrations last week.
The Inner Wheel movement was started by the wife of a Manchester Rotarian, Mrs Margarette Owen, 77 years ago on January 10, 1924.
Secretary of the Malvern branch of Inner Wheel - itself in existence for 54 years - Penny Watkins, said: "Mrs Owen was born in Hay-on-Wye, trained as a nurse and served in the First World War. She was not so much concerned about the liberation of women as about giving women the opportunity to liberate others from sorrow and suffering. She wanted all the wives of the Rotarians, who had been helping them, to discover the movement about service above self."
The new members had their first meeting in November 1923 in the cooling room of Herriots Turkish Baths in Manchester's Deansgate - it was the only venue they could find for free. However, for their official founding meeting, the new club met in a Manchester social club, the day of which has been chosen for a special service inviting members to think of others.
Members of Malvern Inner Wheel club visited about 20 elderly people in their homes to let them know they were thinking about them.
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