{"id":5490,"date":"2023-06-21T10:07:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T09:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2023-06-21T10:07:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T09:07:30","slug":"mary-fisher-mbe-jp-a-sister-soroptimist-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/2023\/06\/21\/mary-fisher-mbe-jp-a-sister-soroptimist-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Fisher MBE JP-  A sister Soroptimist too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Club is celebrating its 90th year since we were chartered in 1933. \u00a0 Our Club archivists, \u00a0Rachel, Judith and Nicola are busy going through our archives held at County Hall in Northallerton. \u00a0We have many photos but some with no names or dates. Lesley, our Communication team leader posted photos on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1740368909532248\">Historical Harrogate and District<\/a> \u00a0Facebook page. \u00a0Val Hills, recognised one of the faces and thought it may be Mary Fisher. In March we spoke about <a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/2023\/03\/26\/forgotten-women-alderman-mary-fisher-mbe-jp-1884-1972\/\">Forgotten Women<\/a>. This included Mary Fisher MBE JP. Val, has been doing a lot of work about Mary the first lady mayor of Harrogate. It is our quest for her to be recognised with a Brown plaque.<\/p>\n<p>Could this be her, was she a Soroptimist or just visiting the Club?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/files\/2023\/06\/IMG_2138.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5491\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/files\/2023\/06\/IMG_2138.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/files\/2023\/06\/IMG_2138.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/files\/2023\/06\/IMG_2138-300x207.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary&#8217;s granddaughter, Anne, \u00a0contacted the Club after the an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrogateadvertiser.co.uk\/heritage-and-retro\/heritage\/tribute-to-a-pioneer-the-legacy-of-harrogates-first-lady-mayor-in-post-war-britain-is-discovered-by-soroptimists-4054675\">article<\/a> about Mary appeared in the Harrogate Advertiser and provided more information about her Granny. So, Val contacted Anne and asked if she thought the lady, second from the left on the back row was Mary. \u00a0Anne responded to say that is was and further more she recalled her Granny talking about the Soroptimists. She then searched through some of Mary&#8217;s mementos and \u00a0found a badge &#8211; \u00a0an original Soroptimist badge given to a member when she joined.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/files\/2023\/06\/image001.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5492\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/files\/2023\/06\/image001.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/files\/2023\/06\/image001.png 519w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/files\/2023\/06\/image001-300x277.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our archivist Rachel looked through our archives and found that indeed there is a Mary Fisher JP who was a member of the Club in the 1930s. We are now looking for more information about her time with our Club.<\/p>\n<p>Mary certainly made a difference to many lives, \u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrogatecivicsociety.org\">Harrogate Civic Society<\/a> is considering recognising her with a Brown Plaque. She gave great service to the people of Harrogate in many guises for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Club is celebrating its 90th year since we were chartered in 1933. \u00a0 Our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":5491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[285,276,275,274,11],"class_list":["post-5490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-meeting","tag-civic-society","tag-forgotten-women","tag-harrogate-civic-society","tag-mary-fisher","tag-soroptimist"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mary Fisher MBE JP- A sister Soroptimist too - SI Harrogate and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/harrogate\/2023\/06\/21\/mary-fisher-mbe-jp-a-sister-soroptimist-too\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mary Fisher MBE JP- A sister Soroptimist too - 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