HUTTON AND HOWICK WOMEN'S INSTITUTE

If you've nothing on - why not join us?

Next Meeting: Monday, 6th February - Hoghton Towers with Bernard Kellett - Competition: Picture of an historical building

Hutton & Howick Women's Institute meet in the Methodist Hall in New Longton. Meetings take place on the first Monday of each month at 7.30 p.m. Why not join us? For further details e-mail: info@huttonandhowick-wi.org.uk Our Institute was founded in 1918 and is the oldest Women's Institute in Lancashire. Our first President was Edith Rigby who was a militant Suffragette. She was blamed for the tarring of Lord Derby's statue in Miller Park, although she did not actually commit the awful deed. She did, however, burn down Lord Leverhulme's wooden bungalow on Rivington Pike and throw a bomb into the Liverpool Cotton Exchange.   She was imprisoned many times for these offences, and suffered the terrible forcible feeding. The local charity, which we have supported for 2011, has been SPACE (www.thespacecentre.org/SpaceCentral) and at our January meeting we presented a cheque for £775.00 to the SPACE representative.