Everyone has heard the nursery rhyme Mary had a little lamb. The snow-white little sheep followed a young girl to her school and made the kids laugh (though it was against the rules). What many people won't know is that the incident that is believed to have inspired this event took place in Wales.
NorthWalesLive has reported the story of Denbighshire’s Mary Hughes. He explained how on her 90th birthday, on May 19, 1931, Mary Hughes was receiving letters of congratulations from “mothers and children” from across the British Empire who wanted to thank her for giving rise to the nursery rhyme.
At this point in here life Mary was almost blind and suffering chronic rheumatism. However she still loved to tell the story that inspired the song. In this story she told how 81 years previously, her little lamb, with “fleece as white as snow”, had followed her to school one day.
