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The smell of mowed grass on a summer's day, can still see the grass being cut and white-lines being redone ready for sports day at Hertford.

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I remember a text book Miss V-S used called 'Lustiges Learning' and there were also some very dated text books with pictures- of German families on the beach or on holiday,(pre- 2nd world war, or so they seemed to us at the time!) and they were written in Gothic print which was hard to read, especia...

You know, my memory was possibly playing tricks when I said about DR giving us money for washing her car, it just seems so unlikely doesn't it? I know she did give us an envelope: to the 'car- cleaning gang', maybe there was just a thank-you note in it. As for her having a fiance, this could have be...

That's true, Angela! I was SO innocent when I started CH, my mum sat on the end of my bed, in the dark, on the night before I went, and told me very briefly about periods, but not very much at all...During the first term, I never even knew what the brown paper bags in loos were for until I asked ano...

I remember doing that country dancing in late 60's early 70's! And DR's bridge club, was it Fridays? She would walk round and give us tips (think this may have been mentioned on another thread). A small group of us used to wash DR's car now and again, on one occasion she gave her breakfast toast CRU...

Thank you for reminding me of that Jo-about Mrs Gardiner- aka Mrs Pryke. We had one of those facts of life talks in prep too. Maybe same one as you were in-must have been in the second year, and she was drawing quite graphically on the blackboard. One of the most daring in the class went up to Mrs G...

8's had a lovely young housemistress when I first started in 1967,( same year as you Jo). She was Miss Barlow, but she didn't stay for more than a term or two. I was also very homesick , and don't think I could have coped with any of the sterner ones at the start :( Next came Miss Willie, (we called...

Ah yes Angela, those clodhopper shoes-chestnut brown when polished! We used to polish them on cellar steps in our houses didn't we? Every so often we would be fitted for a 'new' pair by the shoe-man, his name escapes me! They were rarely brand-new shoes though, usually a pair someone else had grown ...

Friday lunches were the worst, fish usually inedible, and rubbery indigestable stodge for pudding ...yuk ! No wonder I couldn't concentrate in double biology on a Friday afternoon, wonder how anyone else could either! Things got better in sixth form when a few of us sneaked out (or were we allowed t...

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In my previous post, I meant to put that Mrs Oliver's husband played guitar !

To go back to Mrs Oliver, Biology teacher - she used to either bike to school or drive red mini. When I was in LV1 retaking Bio Ol evel, which I had failed the year before, she invited a small group of us-can't remember who the others were-to her house in Ware. Her husband, also trendy, hippyish-pla...

Yes Jo I was in the same year as the 3 you mentioned, tho I was in the B form with another girl who is still a very close friend. Mary, It was nice to have news of Miss G-W. I kind of liked her too, tho at the time, didn't admit it! So silly !

A question for anyone at Hertford in early 70's? Do you remember Mrs Oliver-biology teacher, age early 20's? She breezed into the classroom in early 1971, trendily dressed in purple midi-skirt, a breath of fresh air as she was probably at that time, one of the youngest teachers there. She and Mrs Be...