The Book of the Society of
Our Lady of Walsingham
The Society of Our Lady of Walsingham was inaugurated on 20 August 1925 and this book,
written on vellum by Vera E Walker, was completed in 1926. It contains twelve richly
illuminated pages (below), followed by eleven less illuminated pages (the first six shown
below), and finally twenty-three pages written in normal handwriting, mostly as signatures
of new members dating from 1925 until the book was virtually filled up. (The last
signatures are on what had been a blank page at the very beginning of the volume.) There
are no later dates, so it is not certain when it ended, but the last six surnames are
Willoughby, Chapman, Taylor, Swindlehurst, Worthy and Brackley (all ladies). The book was
finely bound by Bumpus Ltd of Oxford Street, London.
