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Atgofion Anne Roberts OBE 1943 - 1950

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Do Violet Pasha Ingram Dormy 10 Penycoed Music Eisteddfod 1949

<p>Back row l-r Anne Wycherley, Helen ???, Penny (Jones?), Antonia Frazier, Helen ???, Patsy Terry, Catherine Evans, Clare Mackay, Ruth Tudor, Flavia Rocca
Front row l-r Caroline (Laing?), Fiona Armstrong, Mary (Udall?), Me (Alison Evans), Sarah Hall, Margaret Roberts, Gail ??? (directly behind Margaret), Myfanwy (Roberts?), Alison Palmer, Fay ???, Tamsin (Farley or Farnham?)
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Upper III Last Photo 1975

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Last days 1975 UIII

Chicken pox - and Rapunzel

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Sick Wing Chicken Pox D B Lickes illicit sweets

Memories of DBL (Miss Doris B Lickes): Lunchtime Philosophy

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Miss Lickes DBL girls and staff lunchtime discipline DWS philosophy

The opposite sex...

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Boys the opposite sex decorum church end of term train journeys

How to eat an orange - 1965

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Table manners school lunch D B Lickes eating an orange

<p>The 1911 Census records that Florence Anstey was born in Bath, Somerset and was 44 at the time the Census was taken and that she was not a Welsh speaker. There were seven Assistant Mistresses, aged between 27 and 33, resident at the school at the time. Five spoke only English the other two spoke English and Welsh.
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<p>79 pupils are recorded; most were born in Wales or England. Three pupils were born in Bombay, Madras and Shanghai respectively.
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<p>One of the pupils (Dorothy May Davies) aged 16 and from Liverpool, was to go on to become something of a legend at DWS. She retired in 1961 after 42 years teaching.
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<p>The DWS Homefront 1914 gallery pages on this site reveal how the school 'did its bit', affording glimpses of the impact of the war in rural Wales and on one school community. Miss Anstey must have been a source of inspiration for all their efforts.
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Miss Florence Anstey, Headmistress 1906-1924

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Headmistress World War 1 Census Dorothy Davies

<p>The first page of the School Magazine published in February 1915 records how the girls immediately set about making garments for soldiers, sailors, Belgian refugees 'or others in distress and want caused by the war'. Two hundred garments were completed and despatched during the term.
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The outbreak of War and how DWS responded, Article 1915

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World War 1 Refugees sewing

Tea at Dol

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Peggy Vaughan tea at Dolrhyd toothpaste cake

<p>This auxiliary military hospital opened for two years during the First World War, closing on the 22 March 1919. There are stories in the school magazine about the entertainments, eggs and newspapers provided by the girls and staff of DWS for the wounded soldiers while they were convalescing at Caernynwch.
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Caerynwch Auxiliary Military Hospital, patients and nurse

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Military hospital World War 1 Caerynwch

<p>Miss Owen left at Christmas to prepare for her marriage.
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More pupils were being accommodated.
<br>Form 11 increased to such 'an alarming extent that it was found necessary to make a separate First Form'. Three little Belgian girls who are refugees in Dolgelley are placed in this form.
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<p>Great excitement was caused by a visit of part of the Welsh Army Corps on January 20th on a route march through Merionethshire.
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A page of snippets from the July 1915 school magazine

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magazine 1915 refugees Welsh Army Corps World War 1

<p>Image from a contemporary school magazine shows dining room tables (complete with vases of flowers) in a long gaslit room. There is a fireplace along one wall. The pictures we can see appear to show school teams.
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The School Dining Room in the 1900s

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Dining room gaslight 1900s

Dr Williams’ School
Dolgellau
1878 - 1975

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Atgofion Anne Roberts OBE 1943 - 1950

Upper III Last Photo 1975

Chicken pox - and Rapunzel

Memories of DBL (Miss Doris B Lickes): Lunchtime Philosophy

The opposite sex...

How to eat an orange - 1965

Miss Florence Anstey, Headmistress 1906-1924

The outbreak of War and how DWS responded, Article 1915

Tea at Dol

Caerynwch Auxiliary Military Hospital, patients and nurse

A page of snippets from the July 1915 school magazine

The School Dining Room in the 1900s