Mothers Day celebrations in other parts of the world are a little different to what they are in the UK where the day started out as very much a family affair rather than a greeting card affair.
Actually correctly called “Mothering Day” in the UK this was usually the one day of the year that children (mainly daughters), who had gone off to work in the employ of other families as house servants (often at a very young age, some as young as 10), were given a day off to visit their families but most particularly, their mums!

The day itself is a religious based day, where it was considered essential for people to go home not just for the sake of seeing their Mothers and Families, but to take part in church services at their “Mother Church”, which was usually the Cathedral in their local area or where that person had been christened or perhaps baptised.

“Gone Mothering” was a term first recorded in the late 1600’s in reference to those children who had returned home to attend their Mother Church and celebrate with their families but particularly with their own mother.

The commercial opportunities that have been afforded to Mothers Day were really only developed across the globe in the 1950’s as Mothers Day became much more widely known as a day to spoil your mother with flowers, presents and maybe even Mothers Day Lunches in Surrey, like those offered here at Gorse Hill!

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