Happy times at Southport RAFA

A FAMILIAR Southport face is featured on this 1961 photograph of the Sunday School procession of All Souls Church in Norwood Road.
Before her long service as a local councillor began, Maureen Fearn led keep-fit exercises for female members of the Royal Air Forces Association, comprising former RAF and Women’s Auxiliary Air Force personnel. Cllr Fearn, a former Mayor of Sefton, is the tallest woman stood on the wagon, looking at members of the procession.
“The group, led by me, did a keep-fit exhibition at the All Souls summer fair,� she told LookBack.
Then in her 20s, Cllr Fearn led the female exercise groups at the RAFA club in Sussex Road, the closure of which was recently announced.
The RAFA at the time used to meet in the basement of Talbot Hall, on the corner of Sussex Road and Windsor Road.
Cllr Fearn she had “happy memories� of the time, and was interested to know where life had taken the women she once tutored.

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