They later developed a lifelong partnership creating stained glass works under the name of their company, Townshend and Howson.

[2][3][4] Her brother George served in the First World War and later became chairman of the Royal British Legion's Poppy Factory.

They moved to 61 Deodar Road in Putney which they had converted to house a studio and workshop, which was shared by fellow stained glass artist M. E. Aldrich Rope.

After the war, she received the retrieved fragments but it would be several years before she resumed work on the project, which she completed in 1952; the results were installed in the southeast windows of the church.

[8] Meanwhile, an important restoration commission was for Westminster Abbey, to restore Chapter House windows damaged during the war; she worked on this with Mary Eily de Putron, Leonard Banks, George Braggs, Nancy Collins, Bernardine Kellam Harris, Thomas Merritt, Eric Szabo and Percy Whale.