A silver trophy presented to lady winners in the Wednesbury Horticultural Society flower shows has come home.
The Society Ladies Challenge Cup was awarded to the competitor who gained the highest number of points in the annual show.
Mrs Lavina Howles of Dingley Road in Wednesbury won the cup four times and was allowed to keep it when the Wednesbury show was discontinued in 1962.
Now Mrs Howles’ daughter Dorothy, has contacted local councillor Steve Melia after reading articles about Wednesbury in Bloom in the local press.
Mrs Dorothy Hatton has decided to give the cup to the people organising the Wednesbury in Bloom competition.
Mrs Hatton has warm memories of the original Wednesury show which was held in Wood Green. “If I remember correctly it took place around the 16th of August and there was always a well-known celebrity to open the show and on several occasions John Stonehouse, the local MP attended,” she said.
She said all kinds of entertainment was provided and the culmination of the event was a “big band" which entertained in the evening.
“I am proud to have been associated with the Society and I am sure my mother would have been very proud, after all these years, to know that there still an interest in Wednesbury” she said.
Councilor Steve Melia, a former chairman of Sandwell Horticulture Show and a keen local historian, said he was delighted that Mrs Hatton had allowed the trophy to “come home to Wednesbury” after such a long time.
He added: "We will keep it safe and hopefully will be able to use it some way in the highly-popular competition."
