I went to school with pupils in wartime photo
In the picture of the eight boys and teacher, the boy standing extreme right on the back row...
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Derby Diocesan College for the Training of School Mistresses was opened in 1851 in a formidable building in Uttoxeter Road, and its regime was equally forbidding. The young women who applied to study at this austere establishment had to undergo a rigorous entrance interview before being accepted, and a century later nothing much had changed.
Bright nail varnish was banned and the girl students were locked in at dances so there was no hankey pankey. Yet Brenda Kellock and Pat Fitton have nothing but fond memories of their time at the Church of England College. Read their account of the rigid discipline there and other people’s recollections of their schooldays, including the games that children used to play.
In the picture of the eight boys and teacher, the boy standing extreme right on the back row...
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