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<p>A class of girls, in their school uniform gymslips, sit at single desks studiously writing for the camera. At the bottom of the image it says Dr William's school, Dolgelley,Form V (with the apostrophe in the wrong place)
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Girls working in Form V classroom, postcard circa 1920

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<p>6th formers enjoying a break in the sun and chatting with the laundress by the tennis courts on the main school site. Does anyone know her name?
l-r: the laundress, Iona Hughes, ? Cynthia Jones, Nesta Roberts
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<p>The school laundry was situated just to the left of the tennis courts; a place where underwear and handkerchiefs were boiled! The Afon Wen Laundry washed blouses, sheets, pyjamas etc.
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Summer 1966 sharing a break with the launderess.

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Two girls wearing their everyday uniform.
<br>This image is from Gillian Spencer's collection. Gillian went as a boarder to DWS aged 8 in 1929.
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Two girls wearing school gymslips and black stockings 1930s

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In conversation with Gillian Spencer, a boarder in 1929 at 8

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Alexis Aladin Eisteddfod Miss Nightingale uniform church games picnic

<p>Last day at school and off to pasture new. Hats thrown out of the train into Bala Lake (Llyn Tegid)
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<p>L-R back row - Gwyneth Powell, Dilys James, Shirley Rushton, Joan Bankier
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<p>L-R front row - Gwenda Roberts, Nesta Lloyd, Jeanette James, Anne Lloyd Davies
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This image is from Anne Lloyd Davies's collection
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Packing Day - End of Summer term, 1949

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Packing day 1940s Bala Lake uniform

<p>The three girls are wearing their school uniform coats and carrying their school panama hats. K. Singleton was Gladys Dutton's best friend.
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<p>Gladys was sent to DWS from her home in Mexico. This photo is from her collection.
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Dorothy Faulks, Morffudd Rees, K. Singleton - circa 1936

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<p>Margaret Griffiths, Jeanette James, Gwyneth Powell, Pamela Thom, Anne Lloyd Davies and Mary Hewitt from Forms V1A and V1B debated at a Mock Election during the Easter Term 1949.
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<p> Margaret holds the 'VOTE LIBERAL' poster - she was related to Clement Davies (former Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire).Pam Thom and Shirley Rushton were candidates too. The Communist party is also represented by Anne and Mary who hold a poster depicting the Hammer and Sickle,with the slogan 'THE DEMOCRACY'. The other two parties appear to represent girls at the school, as opposed to other political parties current at the time.
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<p>The girls are wearing their Sunday Best school uniform for the photograph. The dress wasn't the favourite item of uniform and was generally called a sack!
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Mock Election includes a Communist party candidate 1949

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<p>We are not sure who the girls are in this picture but we think the walk could have been one we knew as 'Plantation'.
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<p>'Plantation' was at the top of the hill, way above Penycoed, the biggest of the DWS boarding houses. There is housing at the photograph's location today.'Plantation' is no more.
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Three girls on a walk, possibly to 'Plantation' 1964

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PLantation Walk Uniform

<p>Four girls on a compulsory walk. We do not know where this photo was taken or the identity of the fourth girl. They are probably all in the Upper Fourth . Iona wears her gym slip four inches above the knee when kneeling (a school rule))and her long hair is tied in bunches, another school rule.
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<p>Compulsory weekend walks in 'crocodiles' were the order of the day. Walking routes took us to Llanfacreth, Torrent Walk, Llanelltyd, Traction Engine, Plantation, and somewhere called Paradise, which I think was up Cader Road.
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Mary Deighton, Iona Jones and Ann Lloyd on a walk 1964

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<p>Susan and Jane grin at the photographer. They are both wearing their school uniform issue dungarees. Dungarees were only worn by the junior school pupils (based at Glyn). For most lessons Susan and Jane would have worn gym slips, just like their counterparts in the first three years at the Senior school.
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Susan Lewis and Jane Wallace at Glyn Malden field 1961

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Glyn Malden dungarees uniform

<p>Eryl is wearing the school uniform dungarees worn by the girls at Glyn for messing about in.
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Eryl Wyn Williams at Glyn Malden field, circa 1961

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Glyn Malden dungarees uniform

<p>A group from Lower VP messing about maybe at Pen y Coed in the 1970s
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A Group from Lower VP in 1975

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Girls working in Form V classroom, postcard circa 1920

Summer 1966 sharing a break with the launderess.

Two girls wearing school gymslips and black stockings 1930s

In conversation with Gillian Spencer, a boarder in 1929 at 8

Packing Day - End of Summer term, 1949

Dorothy Faulks, Morffudd Rees, K. Singleton - circa 1936

Mock Election includes a Communist party candidate 1949

Three girls on a walk, possibly to 'Plantation' 1964

Mary Deighton, Iona Jones and Ann Lloyd on a walk 1964

Susan Lewis and Jane Wallace at Glyn Malden field 1961

Eryl Wyn Williams at Glyn Malden field, circa 1961

A Group from Lower VP in 1975