Vera Paxton
Vera remembers her childhood
in the Primrose League:
"I can remember the oath:
'I being a child of the British Empire,
and a member of the Junior branch
of the Primrose League,
promise to be loyal to my king,
faithful to my God,
and true to my country'
We said that at every meeting.
I used to go
to the children's afternoons,
the socials and dances.
My mother always went
to the general meetings.
But she wasn't very political.
You know,
we'd deliver leaflets at election times
and such like,
but she wouldn't stand on a platform
or anything like that,
she wouldn't get heated about anything.
Our district warden was a Mrs Sayers,
an ex school teacher,
of the old school,
she was into all
the political activities
of the Broad Green Ward
of the Conservative Party
and that's how
she got so many people round here
to join.
Even neighbours who were Labour,
she got their children to go -
my father never approved of that! -
and she was quite a big supporter
and she lived it."
