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HERTFORD PICTURE
Katharine,
Mid-/late-1960s. I will confirm actual year at the week-end. The pic was taken during a visit by RAF Foundationers to 617 (Dambusters) Squadron and I should explain that the ones with the wide-eyed innocent looks who give the impression that butter would not melt in their mouths are RAF officers.
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Mid-/late-1960s. I will confirm actual year at the week-end. The pic was taken during a visit by RAF Foundationers to 617 (Dambusters) Squadron and I should explain that the ones with the wide-eyed innocent looks who give the impression that butter would not melt in their mouths are RAF officers.
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Re: HERTFORD PICTURE
I would say that is more Mid than late becasue DR got quite grey towards the end of the 60s. the 'Sunday best' grey tunic and tartan shirt say that as well though why they were wearing the winter Sunday unifrom with summer blazers I am not sure.petard249 wrote:Katharine,
Mid-/late-1960s. I will confirm actual year at the week-end. The pic was taken during a visit by RAF Foundationers to 617 (Dambusters) Squadron and I should explain that the ones with the wide-eyed innocent looks who give the impression that butter would not melt in their mouths are RAF officers.
David
It is too small for me to recognise any of the girls.
Can you email me a larger copy and I will try to put names to faces?
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Re: HERTFORD PICTURE
Click on it, Mary then it becomes a lot larger. I don't recognise anyone which I should if it was mid-60s, but then I don't think we had an RAF foundationer by the time I left.englishangel wrote:I would say that is more Mid than late becasue DR got quite grey towards the end of the 60s. the 'Sunday best' grey tunic and tartan shirt say that as well though why they were wearing the winter Sunday unifrom with summer blazers I am not sure.
It is too small for me to recognise any of the girls.
Can you email me a larger copy and I will try to put names to faces?
Katharine Dobson (Hills) 6.14, 1959 - 1965
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I agree that one of the girls is Sue Betteridge ( Sevens, and same year as Englishlangel,Wildone and me) and Little Miss dark plaits is Hilary Monsell ( Fours, we used to call her "Monster" ...but affectionately, she was ayear below me) and next to DR I see Janessa Fletcher ( I'm pretty certain). The year 1966? as Janessa was in Sixes and a year older than me but she looks very young there, and I started in '65. Her sister Linden was older and in Fives ( not in photo). Recall the other faces but can't remember their names.
Thanks for posting it. Nice photo, even of DR.
Thanks for posting it. Nice photo, even of DR.
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The mini was coming in just as I left. In the Summer term you had to try on your School Needlework and wear it before DR and Miss Richards. One of my firends had made a dress with a fairly mini skirt. She was made to turn round and touch her toes several times to see whether they could see her knickers!midget wrote:Surrely the length of a CH skirt was inversely propotional to the current fashionable length?Katharine wrote:Any idea to date? The skirts are far shorter than we were allowed!
Alex, I remember the name Linden Fletcher, I think she may have started in 6s and then transferred to 5s when it became an all through house. I don't remember the name Janessa, but if she was the year above you, I should!
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I remember both Janessa and Linden though I wouldn't recognise them.
Strange that there were 2 Lindens at CH at that time, both have made their name in a man's world.
Linden Fletcher is a priest and Linden from 2s (whose name escapes me is a University Professor of (I think) water ecology in the Netherlands.
I have never met another Linden, nor Janessa come to that.
Strange that there were 2 Lindens at CH at that time, both have made their name in a man's world.
Linden Fletcher is a priest and Linden from 2s (whose name escapes me is a University Professor of (I think) water ecology in the Netherlands.
I have never met another Linden, nor Janessa come to that.
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HERTFORD PICTURE
I did not realise that the pic would generate such interest! It was taken on 9 May 1967 and the ladies in the picture are, from left to right:
Janessa Fletcher, Josephine McNamara, Susan Betteridge, Hilary Monsell, and (far right) Sarah Simmons. The macho looking chap between Misses Monsell and Simmons is Wing-Commander Robert Allen (Commanding Officer of 617 Squadron) and the aircraft is an Avro Vulcan nuclear bomber.
If you are wondering how a mere male came to be in possession of this picture, I obtained it when I was researching for my booklet on Sir Barnes Wallis and the RAF Foundation (of which these girls were all members).
Janessa Fletcher, Josephine McNamara, Susan Betteridge, Hilary Monsell, and (far right) Sarah Simmons. The macho looking chap between Misses Monsell and Simmons is Wing-Commander Robert Allen (Commanding Officer of 617 Squadron) and the aircraft is an Avro Vulcan nuclear bomber.
If you are wondering how a mere male came to be in possession of this picture, I obtained it when I was researching for my booklet on Sir Barnes Wallis and the RAF Foundation (of which these girls were all members).
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