Down Memory Lane

From the archive, first published Friday 3rd Feb 2006.

Post-war uniforms at Keighley Girls' Grammar School are illustrated in this informal snapshot of Form 3D taken in March of 1946.

It has been supplied by Mrs Edna Johnson, who retired to Ardrishaig in Argyll but who appears as young Edna Whitaker, fourth from the left on the back row. She can name all the others.

Back row, left to right: Monica Beardsall, Greta Speak, Margaret Fort, Edna Whitaker, Barbara Gavins, Mollie Riley, Miss Briggs (the teacher, who seems to be holding a black cat), Brenda Hodgson, Kathleen Bailey, Jean Riley.

Middle row: Muriel Brown, Ruth Ratcliffe, Jeanette Jones, Mollie Ratcliffe, Valerie Taylor, Margaret Hey, Jean Gunning, Jean Robinson.

Front row:

Kathleen Bulmer, Kathleen Hird, Enid Wilkins, Brenda Clay, Audrey Ross, Myra Wood, Joyce Whitaker.

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