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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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<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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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>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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<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>This photo, from Gladys Dutton's collection, is marked 'Jonas, French Teacher'. Miss Jones, whose nickname at school was Jonas, is on the right. Both women are wearing panama hats and either a cardigan or a knitted dress.
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<p>It is possible that the beach may have been at Friog where the school had a beach hut. DWS girls went swimming there for many years.
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<p>In the background you can just see a girl in a swimming costume.
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Jonas, French Teacher and a companion on a beach 1930s

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Jonas French swimming Friog

<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>Three girls having fun by the River Wnion, which was usually out of bounds.
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Three by the River Wnion 1975

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Collecting sphagnum moss

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<p>A Walk to Lake Cynnwch with 'Do' Davies after finishing exams. The girls are holding sphagnum moss which was used during the war. Pupils collected the moss and delivered it to Miss Nightingale's house in Cader Road (headmistress 1924-1940). The Red Cross used the moss to treat soldiers' wounds.
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Picnic with Miss 'Do' Davies 1940s

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<p>Yvonne Nicholls, Eleri Willimas, Anna Hughes, Elizabeth Jenkins and Jenifer Davies sledging in the snow.
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Sledging in 1963

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Summer 1966 sharing a break with the launderess.

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

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

Guide Camp at Minffordd (above Portmeirion) July 1944

Guide Camp at Minffordd, July 1944

Jonas, French Teacher and a companion on a beach 1930s

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

Susan Lewis and Jane Wallace at Glyn Malden field 1961

Three by the River Wnion 1975

Collecting sphagnum moss

Picnic with Miss 'Do' Davies 1940s

Sledging in 1963