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<p>This group looks very unimpressed by the fine weather and the tennis game being played next to them!
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<p>l-r Ann Taylor, Menai Davies, Andrena Anderson, Margaret Louise Jones
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Summer on the Hockey Pitch, 1960

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DWS very nearly 'Top of the Form' in a BBC Quiz show in 1958

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Top of the Form BBC radio

<p>On the back of the photograph held at the Record Office in Dolgellau there is a contemporary handwritten list of names of the women who attended the Sixth London Reunion.
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<p>It is often quite difficult to read the handwriting so the names and initials given below may not be accurate. The invitation to Joyce Bullas is linked to this page. Mrs Lloyd George and Miss Anstey (headmistress at DWS from 1906- 24) are included in the group photograph.
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First Row
<br>Left to right - JLWH (?)2. Edith Grover 3. Joyce Bullas 9. Flossie Tootil 11. Winnie Tootil 12. Dorothy Jones 13. Dorothy Owen 17 Dilys Bromley
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Second Row
<br>6. Violet Islip 8. Lucy Renneys
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Third Row
<br>5. Gwyneth Hughes
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Fourth Row
<br>1. Norah Grindrod 2. Gladys Hurst 3.Kathleen Flinders 4. Verona Evans 5. Bessie Q (?) 6 Bessie H. 7. Enid 8. Mrs Lloyd George 10 Millicent Sankey 11 Miss Anstey 12 Flora (?) Barr 13 Marion Hodgson 14.Bee Carr (?)19 Lilian Wms 20. Olive Ffoulkes
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Group at the DWS reunion held at 10 Downing Street in 1921

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10 Downing Street Margaret Lloyd George Miss Anstey reunion

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<p>Megan Lloyd George 1902 -1966 was the daughter of former pupil Margaret Lloyd George. She was brought up mainly at numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street. Her father, Lloyd George, was chancellor of the exchequer and prime minister.
Megan was Wales first woman MP, winning her Anglesey seat as a Liberal in 1929. She was very well known as an inspirational speaker in the 1930s and 40s. Unlike her sister Carey, she was not educated at DWS. In the 1950s she campaigned for a Welsh assembly. In 1945 Megan Lloyd George joined the Labour Party and became MP for Camarthen.
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Megan LLoyd George distributes prizes- programme cover 1947

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Megan Lloyd George 10 Downing Street MP Speech day

<p>This photo must have been taken on the same day as the one in the garden, its Sue Ogden, Ann Taylor & Katie Owen. Menai Davies was going through a photography phase, probably with a Box Brownie. It was very popular to pick fruit in the bushes at Pen, and here it looks like we were enjoying eating some of it.
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Relaxing at Pen y Coed, 1959

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friends Pen y Coed fruit picking

<p>Menai Davies and Margaret Louise Jones at a Guide ceremony on the field at Pen y Coed, 1960-1.
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Girl Guides at Pen y Coed

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Guides Pen y Coed uniform 1960s

<p>A group of friends eating lollipops at the Dolgellau Eisteddfod. l-r: Susan Ogden, Menai Davies, Ann Taylor, Margaret Louise Jones, Andrena Anderson.
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A Group of friends at the Dolgellau Eisteddfod, 1960

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Eisteddfod friends Dolgellau 1960

<p>This is a picture of Ann Taylor, Sue Ogden & Katie Owen.
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<p>It is taken in the gardens at Pen y Coed, a school house, when we were in the Lower IVths. Note the sturdy brown lace-ups, probably Start-rites, Daniel Neal issue.
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<p>Ann Taylor was a girl from Manchester with a huge sense of fun, in spite of great personal family loss. We were friends for 10 years in school and her strength and sense of humour made our lives in school infinitely better, especially in the sixth form.
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Three Friends at Pen y Coed

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Glyn Malden 1950s gardening friends

<p>An invitation, by 'kind permission of the Prime Minister and Dame Margaret Lloyd George', for Miss J. Bullas to attend the sixth London reunion at 10 Downing Street in 1921.
The accompanying contemporary newspaper cutting mentions 150 former pupils attending the event. Miss Ann Griffith, a school cook for over forty years and'famous for her cakes', sent a special cake from Dolgelley for the occasion. This was duly cut and 'solemnly', sampled by all present.
An interesting variation on the expected format for Old Girls' reunions was 'a programme of songs and elocution' contributed by past pupils.
Margaret Lloyd George made a short speech referencing the three happy years she had enjoyed at DWS and mention was also made of her daughter Mrs Carey Evans, who had also been to DWS. Unfortunately Carey's departure from India had been delayed until September so she was unable to attend.
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Margaret LLoyd George hosts a reunion at Number 10 in 1921

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10 Downing Street Margaret Lloyd George Reunion

<p>A group of girls dressed in compulsory playtime dungarees, standing by the field where we spent many hours playing, making dens and exploring. We even formed a skiffle band with an old washboard and packing case. </p>
<p>On one occasion we went exploring up the stream which ran through the property. It was strictly out of bounds, for good reason, as a huge boulder crushed my foot and I was laid up for weeks. That didn't mean we escaped punishment, probably endless lines.</p>

<p>Front row l-r: Jen Lewis, Delyth from Pencader, Annette Ginesi and Veronica Lees
Back row l-r Ann Taylor, Menai Davies
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I think I must have been taking the picture
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Playtime at Glyn Malden in the 1950s

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Glyn Malden 1950s play

<p>I was 15 years old and this was our GCE O'level year. I think it was the only time I received an "A" for anything in my entire school career!
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Upper V A Posture, 1966

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Summer on the Hockey Pitch, 1960

DWS very nearly 'Top of the Form' in a BBC Quiz show in 1958

Group at the DWS reunion held at 10 Downing Street in 1921

family and other visits

Megan LLoyd George distributes prizes- programme cover 1947

Relaxing at Pen y Coed, 1959

Girl Guides at Pen y Coed

A Group of friends at the Dolgellau Eisteddfod, 1960

Three Friends at Pen y Coed

Margaret LLoyd George hosts a reunion at Number 10 in 1921

Playtime at Glyn Malden in the 1950s

Upper V A Posture, 1966