A pensioner has donated her late father’s Maundy Money to Watford Museum.

Maundy Money is presented to pensioners by the Queen every year on Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday, in recognition of their service to the community and their church.

Yvonne Harland presented the two pouches of ceremonial money given to her father Edward Mann in 1991 to Luke Clark from the museum on Tuesday.

Her father Edward Mann was presented with the coins by the Queen in recognition of his committed charity work.

The Royal Maundy is an annual ceremony that dates back to the 1600s.

As many elderly men and women as there are years in the sovereign’s age are chosen because of the Christian service they have given to the Church and community for the ceremony, which takes place every year on Maundy Thursday when the sovereign hands each recipient two small leather string purses.

One, a red purse, contains – in ordinary coinage – money in lieu of food and clothing.

The other, a white purse, contains silver Maundy coins consisting of the same number of pence as the years of the sovereign’s age.

Mrs Harland, 75, who was a nurse all her working life, decided to give the money to Watford Museum to display as a tribute to her father’s work.

The resident of Lancaster Court nursing home, in High Road, Leavesden, made the presentation with her brother Peter Mann.