Women dressed in their glad rags and pinned up their victory rolls to celebrate 100 years of the Women’s Institute movement.

Pinner’s Women’s Institute, HA:WI, rolled out the hospitality carpet on Tuesday evening to welcome the WI's centenary baton to celebrate the organisation's 100th birthday.

Author and historian Jane Robinson spoke about the history of the Women’s Institute, drawing from her book A Force to be Reckoned With, while ladies sipped tea from fine bone-china vintage cups and saucers, alongside the obligatory Victoria sponge.

Jane Robinson said: “It was such a lovely welcoming and fun evening. It gives me tingles to be involved with the WI at such events.

“These ladies truly are a ‘force to be reckoned with’ - they really are an inspirational movement.”

The evening was also a very special event for Middlesex as HA:WI was the first WI in the county to receive the centenary baton, which has been working its way around the country for the last year.

The baton started on its travels around all 69 WI Federations in January 2014, at Llanfairpwll, in Wales -the village where the first WI opened - and will finish its journey at the Royal Albert Hall for the National Federation of Women’s Institutes Annual Meeting in June.

Inside the baton is a memory stick, on which every Federation has put 12 photographs to represent their group.

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