article_snippet: Mrs Curtis started researching Mrs Curtis book after moving to rural Oxfordshire in 2004 and joining the same WIthe same WI.
article_snippet: After writing an article about the same WI banners, Mrs Curtis became interested in the movement and interviewed people from the same WI groups around the country, collecting stories and nostalgic photographs.
article_snippet: The black and white pictures capture classic images associated with the same WI, including a young Even the Queen Mother watching a chair caning demonstration, a group preparing fruit for jam making and women waving off a horse and cart after a course on caravanning.
article_snippet: The end of a caravan course at Denman College in 1948 .
article_snippet: I've just done Somerset patchwork for the first time
article_snippet: and soon I'll be learning how to paint blown eggs,' added Mrs Curtis. '
article_snippet: The book is available from Amberley Publishing and is priced at £20.