A duck flypast provided a quacking good accompaniment to a Royal visit to North Shropshire.
Princess Anne, the Princess Royal, was visiting Ellesmere to unveil a plaque at the memorial garden dedicated to Eglantyne Jebb and Dorothy Buxton, when some mating ducks decided to descend on the garden much to the crowd's delight.
The Princess spent a long time meeting volunteers and artists involved in creating the memorial garden. This year, the charity is marking another centenary – 100 years since the League of Nations adopted the 1924 Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child, a ground-breaking accord drawn up by Eglantyne Jebb.
Possibly the youngest member of the crowd was one year old Luca Seddon, who was pushed in a pram by his mum Cara Brewer, and her mum Gabriella Stevens. The Princess also met long-serving members of Save the Children’s Ellesmere fund-raising branch, founded by Mr Jebb’s mother, Mrs Corinna Jebb, in 1968.
They were joined by pupils from Ellesmere Primary School and Welshampton C of E School in an educational exercise related to Eglantyne Jebb, the work of Save the Children and the Rights of the Child. It symbolises the perilous journeys taken by desperate children trying to escape war, famine and natural disasters. Sculptor John Merrill, who created the wooden shelter, ‘Refuge’, enlisted his 12-year-old son, Josef to model the child.
Before leaving, to more singing by the children, the Princess was presented with a posy of flowers by two Welshampton primary school pupils. She also received a book of short stories about refugees, called ‘Lifelines, written by the local Witzend writers’ group, and presented by two Ellesmere primary school pupils.
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