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<p>Subjects included English, French, Welsh,German, Latin and Greek. Then there was Aural Culture, Hygiene, Class Singing, Domestic Science, Handicrafts, Speech Training,Games and Dancing, Art, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. General Certificate of Education examinations were taken at Advanced and Ordinary level.
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<p>At this time the prospectus states there was a Domestic Science House. Here girls could 'learn by practical experience catering, buying, cooking, entertaining, needlework, decorating and household repairs' apparently.
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Most of the 'extra subjects' on offer involved learning how to play a musical instrument.

Curriculum and extra subjects 1960 Prospectus

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<p>1960 prospectus - The Reverend Daniel Williams, D.D. under his will dated 26th June 1711 left funds for the purpose of promoting the education of English and Welsh children. DWS 'aims at fitting girls for suitable careers or for home life, and at training them in habits of sound work, courtesy and consideration for others'.
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<p>The accommodation included 'a magnificent Assembly Hall and Library', Orchestra room, Prefects' studies, Music Wing, Sick Wing and Girls' Common Room. It had accommodation for about 240 boarders between the ages of 7 and 19.
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Fitting girls for suitable careers or home life

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1960 prospectus Daniel Williams accommodation careers

<p>This image shows the school hall,library and stage.
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The school hall - 1960 prospectus

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This page lists teaching and support staff in 1960
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List of staff and subjects continued - 1960 prospectus

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staff prospectus 1960 matron

This page lists teaching staff in 1960
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List of staff and subjects in 1960 prospectus

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<p>This image shows the school as it looked in 1960. The campus has been extended dramatically since then. It is now home to Coleg Meirion Dwyfor. The tennis courts and craft room in the picture are no longer there.
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<p>Coleg Meirion Dwyfor offers a range of academic and vocational courses post GCSE
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Main school building -1960 prospectus

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main school building 1960 prospectus

<p>Two loose inserts in the 1960 prospectus outline tuition fees at £75 per annum. Boarding and laundry (exclusive of tuition and books): £160 per annum. Extra subjects included harp, organ, elocution, solo singing, orchestra and shorthand and 'typewriting'. The second loose insert informs of the construction of a swimming bath.
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Tuition, boarding, laundry and extra subject fees 1960

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<p>This page shows the telephone numbers in 1960 for the main school, the boarding houses and the bursar's office
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School prospectus 1960 - page 1

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<p>Front cover of the prospectus for Dr Williams' School, Dolgelley, North Wales - includes an image of the school badge.
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School prospectus 1960

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<p>A page from an autograph book includes the signatures of Dame Sybil Thorndike and that of her husband, the actor and theatre director Lewis Casson. Together they played the lead roles in a production of Macbeth in the school hall at DWS on April 2nd 1941.
Following the closure of The Old Vic Theatre in London during World War 2,the Old Vic company relocated to Burnley.They toured the North of England and South Wales playing miners' institutes and village halls and also DWS! Buses brought children from other schools in the area to Dolgellau to see the production. One 'old girl's' mother recalled travelling by coach from Bala to see it. Stories on this site mention the production which must have left quite an impression. It would be a bit like having Judi Dench acting in your school hall today!
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Sybil Thorndike plays Lady Macbeth at DWS April 2nd 1941

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Sybil Thorndike Lewis Casson Macbeth play autograph

<p>I left my teaching post at DWS in the summer of 1969. On my last night of dormy duties at Pencoed Margaret Murray took this little china cat which was on her dormy locker and gave it to me as a souvenir. I've still got it Margaret after 46 years!!!!
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Third Form group taken at Precipice Walk in 1939.
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<p>(L-R): Ronnie Rees, Kath Williams,"Mac" (Mary Carter), Mair Helena Davies, Janine Griffiths.
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Precipice Walk 1939

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Dolgellau
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Curriculum and extra subjects 1960 Prospectus

Fitting girls for suitable careers or home life

The school hall - 1960 prospectus

List of staff and subjects continued - 1960 prospectus

List of staff and subjects in 1960 prospectus

Main school building -1960 prospectus

Tuition, boarding, laundry and extra subject fees 1960

School prospectus 1960 - page 1

School prospectus 1960

Sybil Thorndike plays Lady Macbeth at DWS April 2nd 1941

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Precipice Walk 1939