A former member of staff at independent home store Lawsons of Plymouth, Madge Axworthy is featured on one of the special postage stamps that celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
Another former Lawsons employee, Vic Freeman recognised Madge in the photograph on the new second class stamp and wrote to a local paper, highlighting that they had worked together at Lawsons between 1958 – 1961.
The stamp is described by the Post Office as ‘A serviceman returns home to Oreston, South Devon, from his airbase in Lincolnshire’. Lawsons calls it: ‘A real piece of Plymouth’s history!’
The stamp featuring Madge is part of a set that reflects on the end of the war in Europe and in the Far East, with three concepts: Celebrating, Returning and Remembering.
