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Ringwood signs up for the Queen Mother's 100th Birthday
David Hughes, Nick Lloyd and Ricky Lisle.
Ringwood people are being invited by the Meeting House Restaurant to make their mark on
history by signing a giant card to celebrate the Queen Mother's 100th Birthday on August
4th.
Artist Ricky Liles from Wareham, has specially designed the Queen Mother's birthday card
and also designed and hand painted the murals of ships, animals and scenes of faraway
places on the walls of the Meeting House Restaurant.
The Queen Mother's Birthday Card is available for everyone to sign up to August 3rd, when
it will be delivered by the owners of the Restaurant to her home at Clarence House.
All Ringwood people have to do to associate themselves with this special tribute is to go
the Meeting House Restaurant, 9 Meeting House Lane, any day between 9.30am and 2pm to sign
the card. Customers to the Restaurant can also sign the card in the evenings.
Artist Ricky Liles said: "I hope we collect hundreds of signatures to mark the Queen
Mother's centenary. I am thrilled to have the opportunity of designing a birthday card for
her. She is my favourite Royal. Indeed, I have been lucky enough to have met her, twenty
years ago when I served her with a large gin and tonic when she was guest of honour at the
Paratroops Regiments annual dinner of which Prince Charles is Colonel in Chief.
"The card I designed shows the Ringwood Parish Church built in the reign of Queen
Victoria, and the Jubilee Lamp which originally commemorated Queen Victoria's Golden
Jubilee, and was revamped for the Queen's Silver Jubilee. I also show the Ladies Land Army
in which the Queen Mother was very involved and was very relevant to Ringwood's farming
community, and different events that happened in her long life."
The owners of the Meeting House Restaurant, David Hughes and Nick Lloyd are delighted with
their Queen Mother's Centenary Birthday Card.
Said chef David Hughes: "I have a great deal of respect and admiration for the Queen
Mother and I think a great many people feel the same way as I do. I hope they will come
and show their appreciation of what she means to the community by signing the card and
perhaps writing a short message. We will then take the card to the Queen Mother at
Clarence House. We will take a photograph of the card and everyone's signatures, which we
will exhibit in the restaurant and later, at the Council Offices. I think it is a very
fitting millennium tribute from the people of Ringwood to a very great lady."
11 July 2000
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