CHILDREN took posies of flowers to a Wormelow museum to remember the last time a war heroine experienced spring.

Pupils from St Weonards Primary School went to the Violette Szabo museum with bunches of flowers to remember a special moment which happened 74 years earlier.

Rosemary Rigby, who owns and runs the museum, said: "Violette Szabo was staying here the first week of May. She went up onto the hill above Wormelow and she collected wild flowers - primroses and violets.

"The little children of Wormelow went up with her. She sounds like a pied piper to me."

Ms Rigby created a museum and memorial to Violette Szabo in 2000, after discovering the cottage in her garden in Wormelow was once the Second World War heroine's holiday home.

Miss Szabo was a French-born British agent who undertook a number of daring undercover missions in France before being captured by German troops and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp where she was executed, aged 23.

Ms Rigby added: "How lucky they are to see how green the grass is and see the trees. That is when Violette left and went out to all that hell. By the next spring she had been executed.

"That is the last spring she ever saw - the first week of May, 1944."