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<p>We think the girls in this photograph are sitting on the building materials for the new hall and library. In the background you can just glimpse the tennis courts and a Tremhyfryd chimney pot!
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<p>The new hall and library, which had been largely designed by miss Nightingale, was opened officially in 1939.
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<p>Click on Related Item to see the names of the girls in this photograph. One of the names, Beryl Rees, will be familiar to many former pupils.
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This image is from Gladys Dutton's collection.
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Form 5B Group seated on bricks for the new hall in 1936

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<p>Form 5B 1936, the names include Beryl Rees who was to become the school bursar in later years.
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<p>See the Gallery for the striking group image of form 5B sitting on top of what we assume are the bricks for the new hall and library. This is the reverse of that image.
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From Gladys Dutton's collection
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Form 5B, group by new hall bricks, photograph names 1936

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1930s Form 5B Gladys Dutton Beryl Rees

<p>The three girls are wearing their school uniform coats and carrying their school panama hats. K. Singleton was Gladys Dutton's best friend.
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<p>Gladys was sent to DWS from her home in Mexico. This photo is from her collection.
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Dorothy Faulks, Morffudd Rees, K. Singleton - circa 1936

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friends 1930s uniform

<p>Margaret Griffiths, Jeanette James, Gwyneth Powell, Pamela Thom, Anne Lloyd Davies and Mary Hewitt from Forms V1A and V1B debated at a Mock Election during the Easter Term 1949.
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<p> Margaret holds the 'VOTE LIBERAL' poster - she was related to Clement Davies (former Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire).Pam Thom and Shirley Rushton were candidates too. The Communist party is also represented by Anne and Mary who hold a poster depicting the Hammer and Sickle,with the slogan 'THE DEMOCRACY'. The other two parties appear to represent girls at the school, as opposed to other political parties current at the time.
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<p>The girls are wearing their Sunday Best school uniform for the photograph. The dress wasn't the favourite item of uniform and was generally called a sack!
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Mock Election includes a Communist party candidate 1949

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Election debate sack uniform politics

<p>Jane and her family are on the left of the picture, her brother is in the grey coat at the front.I'm with my mum and younger brother. Jane was one of my 'best friends'. Like me, she arrived late at DWS so we were natural allies. Jane had some 'street cred'. We all thought her cousin was Tony Hicks from The Hollies (a top 1960s pop group). Surprisingly, I also had some 'street cred' having Mary Whitehouse as an aunt ...well, maybe not exactly 'street cred' in my case! This slide transparency shows us all having a walk around the lake, probably after a sunday lunch at the Tynycornel hotel This was a real treat and a respite from 'Rhino'(roast beef) and the thick apricot tart, smothered with condensed milk, which was our regular Sunday fare at school.
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Jane Hicks and Jen Hutcheson at Talyllyn on a day out 1966

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Talyllyn day out walk family

<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

<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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uniform walk

<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>Eryl is wearing the school uniform dungarees worn by the girls at Glyn for messing about in.
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Eryl Wyn Williams at Glyn Malden field, circa 1961

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Glyn Malden dungarees uniform

A Group of pupils in the 1880s

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1880s school photograph

<p>A group from Lower VP messing about maybe at Pen y Coed in the 1970s
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A Group from Lower VP in 1975

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uniform 1970s Lower V Pen y Coed

<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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Form 5B Group seated on bricks for the new hall in 1936

Form 5B, group by new hall bricks, photograph names 1936

Dorothy Faulks, Morffudd Rees, K. Singleton - circa 1936

Mock Election includes a Communist party candidate 1949

Jane Hicks and Jen Hutcheson at Talyllyn on a day out 1966

Upper III Last Photo 1975

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

Susan Lewis and Jane Wallace at Glyn Malden field 1961

Eryl Wyn Williams at Glyn Malden field, circa 1961

A Group of pupils in the 1880s

A Group from Lower VP in 1975

Three by the River Wnion 1975