This beauty is my grandmother Violet, who was born today. She was, according to family legend, the first woman in England to hold a publican’s licence in her own right, that is to say not as a wife or widow; I paid homage to her in my memoir The Last Landlady. Here I want to celebrate, not her landlady gifts - her ability to transform a sawdusty country…
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