Donald Watson lived to 95 - what a great innings.
But does anyone know what happened to the other co-founder of the Vegan Society UK - Elsie Shrigley.
Donald Watson lived to 95 - what a great innings.
But does anyone know what happened to the other co-founder of the Vegan Society UK - Elsie Shrigley.
Here's a photograph with Elsie in it.
http://www.ivu.org/congress/wvc47/card.html
awww. people just looked so...nice back in those days. you can't imagine anybody in those pictures being into death metal or wearing 'bling' and talking about smacking their 'ho'. i bet all them folks wanted was a nice cup of tea.Gliondrach
Tofu Monster
do you know what? i think societies psyche was different in the black and white days. of course there were crims, villains, dreadful things going on but it seems to me that the conscience and ethics of the 'old days' was different. respect and keeping a look out for others seemed more of a everyday norm.
reading the above:
a) i am not so old that i actually remember the old days
b) i may be looking through those rose-tinted specs again!
In the winter 2004 edition of The Vegan there is a piece about the early vegan society with a picture of twelve people at a vegan society meeting. One of the people at the meeting called Christina Harvey tells of her memories of that meeting and the people who attended. One of the people she mentions she calls Sally Shrigley who she says was one of the founder members of the vegan society and it's chairperson and she died in 1978.
Either Christina Harvey got the name wrong and Sally is Elsie, or Sally and Elsie are two different people
lol!!Tofu Monster
It would seem that the person named as Sally Shrigley in the winter 2004 vegan mag was very likely Elsie Shrigley and sadly she died in the 1970s.
Thanks Spiral for all your information .Spiral
Thanks also to Gliondrach for the photo - everyone seemed so old compared to the young people I usually see at vegan functions.
Hopefully someone else may be able to add another piece to the jigsaw puzzle.
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