By the time I was at school we didn't wear our pinnies there but the discarded calico nighties which had been cut up the back to make overalls! The looms were still there in the 60s. It looks as if the girl standing at the back is wearing a Monitress's badge - which would also explain the lack of a pinny. She would have had a black apron (green ones came in during my time at the place) - or she is not even wearing that.

Katharine Dobson (Hills) 6’s 1959–1965

The girl standing at the loom MAY be Elizabeth Llewellyn-Smith. She had a Senior BA, and I can remember all of us in the study "helping" to embroider the CH on the top hem. Her twin sister Cath was Head Girl in 1952/3.

Margaret O'Riordan (Maxworthy) 1’s 1944, 3’s 1945–1952

The girl front left is Pat someone or other I think and on the right is Thelma Cleaver. Judy Pavey may be at the back and, yes, probably one of the Llewellyn Smiths.

Helen

All quoted from the Unofficial CH Forum. Photograph copyright Corbis.com ref: HU016787

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