Tribute was paid in a recent issue of ‘Gateway’ the journal of the Church of England Children’s Society,

to the work over a number of years of Miss Maria Heywood, who will be 96 next Christmas Day, and her niece, Miss H Jewell, aged 80, both of Clovelly, who have knitted dozens of pairs of socks for the Society.

In the picture, taken in their home, 106 High Street, Miss Heywood is sitting near the window.

Miss Heywood is now confined to her house, having broken her hip four years ago. Before coming to Clovelly to live she lived in Barnstaple.

Miss Jewell, however, every Sunday climbs the hill to the Church, and she has been a member of the Church Council for the past 37 years.

Gazette article dated 5 August 1960