A display charting the history of the charitable club has gone up at Harborough Museum, behind the council offices in Adam and Eve Street.

It is one of the events organised to mark the group’s golden jubilee and the exhibition will run until October 26.

The museum display features a potted history of the group, Rotary Club flags from across the world, old photographs, artefacts and interesting bits of information about former members.

The new exhibition was launched on June 7 with about 25 Rotarians getting a sneak preview of the exhibition. It was officially opened by Harborough District Council chairman Brian Smith

President Gordon Etherington said: “The opening was attended by the president of the Northampton Rotary club Jorgen Romose and the president of Market Harborough Inner Wheel Sue Brotherton, the president of Probus and the museum staff, whose advice had been so useful.”

The Rotary Club holds numerous fundraising activities throughout the year and helps out with town events such as Late Night Shopping and the Harborough Carnival.

The origins of the Harborough club can be traced back to a meeting at the town’s Three Swans hotel in 1957.

A group interested in forming a branch met with the a district extension officer to outline the charity group’s aims. Confident that Harborough could sustain a club, the group invited others to a further meeting and the seeds of the Harborough group were sown.An interim club was established and, after achieving independence a year later, presented its charter on February 3, 1958.