THE year was 1967. Anne Packham and Diane Dawkins were young Romsey mothers. Diane had two children under five-years-old and Anne had one. Encouraged by the Oxfam Regional Organiser (Gordon McLeod), Anne and Diane established the Romsey Oxfam Support Group. Shortly afterwards, Woolworths offered premises, rent-free, in The Hundred, and the friends, in September 1967, established the very first charity shop in the town, entirely volunteer-run.
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