Hyde Reporter – 13 May 1933

Rosy-Cheeked Brunette to be Town's Rose Queen

There was a flutter of excitement in the Mayor's Parlour, on Tuesday, when the Mayoress, Mrs Shatwell, drew from a hat the name of a girl who is to be the town's rose queen at the pageant, to be held on June 24, and the hospital carnival a fortnight later.

“Freda Molesdale” announced the Mayoress and immediately the tense atmosphere gave place to hearty clapping. “Step forward Freda Molesdale,” requested Mrs Babage, who presided.

A little nervous and bewildered, Freda obeyed, and to those who did not know her was revealed a rosy-cheeked brunette with bobbed and wavy hair and greyish-brown eyes, a charming girl in keeping with the “royal” line.

Freda is the younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Molesdale of Knight-street, Gee Cross. A scholar in the fourth standard at the Gee Cross Council School, she is ten years of age and is a member of the Holy Trinity Brownies.

By popular vote of their school companions two representatives from each elementary school in the borough were were chosen to stand their chance in the “draw”. They were accompanied by their mothers to whom Mrs Babage, chairman of the Rose Queen Committee, who was accompanied in addition to the Mayoress by Mrs Adamson, secretary, and Mrs Allsop, treasurer, extended a warm welcome realising that they were ready to their little bit on behalf of a good cause.

The real idea of the pageant and the Carnival, she explained, was to help those who were sick and in need. “I realise that you have come with that idea foremost in your minds and I know the girls are looking forward to this event and to which is going to be queen.