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<p>The top half of the image shows DBL (Miss Lickes, headmistress 1947-67 and much revered; she certainly had a presence) wearing a purple dress, a favoured colour of hers and seated in a deckchair (3rd from right) According to Vera, it was a beautiful April afternoon.
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<p>The bottom half of the image shows OGs of the 30's. l-r; Kay, Ann, Gaynor, Pauline, Thelma, Morfydd (ref obituary Morfydd Rees) and Vera - read her story ('My Life at DWS by Vera Gibbon) spanning two years - 1933-35
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1987 OG REUNION IN BLACKBURN

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<p>Names faintly written on back: (Top tier) Ninnette Cable, Pauline Baechly, Jean laudo, (Centre tier) Mary Wilson, Helen Billington, Ruth Stonehouse, Olive Jones, Judy Hughes, Singleton, Morffudd, Ann Pugh. (Bottom row) Irene W?, Paddy Rophy, Thelma Thove, Doreen Davis - as best we can read the faint handwriting.
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1938 group picture

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Gladys Dutton

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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1930s uniform

<p>A group of guides in front of the school bridge with colours
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Girl Guides in front of the School Bridge in the 1940s

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guides school bridge 1940s

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 school opened on 8th February 1878 with 52 day pupils and 19 boarders. The first headmistress was Miss Emily Armstrong see the Headmistress page in the History section
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View of the school soon after opening in 1878

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1878 school opening school view

<p>Miss Jackson guided us through our applications to universities.
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<p>Left to right - Dilys Jones, Margaret Griffiths, Joan Bankier, Pam Jenkin, Mary Hewitt, Pam Thom, Anne Lloyd Davies
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Upper V1 A with Miss Jackson by the school bridge 1949-50

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1950 university Miss Jackson school bridge

<p>This 'dormy' was at Penycoed and situated at the front of the house on the right hand side as you went up the stairs. The photograph was taken outside the Laundry and near the Main School's tennis and netball courts. Anne Lloyd Davies was head of 'Poppy', she describes them as a super group of girls.
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Poppy Dormitory girls, Penycoed 1949 -50

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Poppy dormitory Penycoed 1950 Laundry

<p>Miss Orford and Miss Lee, visited the guide camp (led by Guiders Miss Salway and Miss Rees) in July 1944. Miss Lee (deputy headmistress) is seen here in the flowery dress and with glasses. Miss Orford (headmistress) stands to the left of what appears to be a flagpole.
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Guide Camp at Minffordd (above Portmeirion) July 1944

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1940s guide camp Miss Lee Miss Orford

<p>Visit to the Guide camp at Minfford (above Portmeirion) in July 1944 by Miss Orford (headmistress - back row second from left) and Miss Lee (back row far right). Miss Salway and Miss Rees were the Guiders - we had a glorious week weatherwise
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Guide Camp at Minffordd, July 1944

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Guides camp Miss Lee Miss Orford 1940s

<p>Gladys was sent to DWS in 1936 from her home in Mexico. Her family worked at the Consul,for the British diplomatic service, in Yucatan. Gladys was at DWS from 1936 to 1938.
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<p>Click on Related Story and Related Items to read an extract from a memoir Gladys sent to DWS friends in 1988 and to see more 1930s photographs from her collection.
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Gladys Dutton, a DWS boarder from Mexico in 1937

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1930s Gladys Dutton Mexico

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1987 OG REUNION IN BLACKBURN

1938 group picture

Two girls wearing school gymslips and black stockings 1930s

Girl Guides in front of the School Bridge in the 1940s

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

Packing Day - End of Summer term, 1949

View of the school soon after opening in 1878

Upper V1 A with Miss Jackson by the school bridge 1949-50

Poppy Dormitory girls, Penycoed 1949 -50

Guide Camp at Minffordd (above Portmeirion) July 1944

Guide Camp at Minffordd, July 1944

Gladys Dutton, a DWS boarder from Mexico in 1937