Summer Term 1960
Tuesday 26 April
Wendy, Ruth and I are in a dorm together over in what used to be the Burgesses flat. It has been decorated nicely in pastel shades of pink, blue, and yellow and there is plenty of drawer and wardrobe space. We have our own bathroom and we can use the kitchen sink for doing our washing. It seems as though I'm at college already. We can leave our washing things in the bathroom and know they won't be moved.
On the way up in the train five girls got on at M'chester. They were going to a teachers training college somewhere near Hull and they were talking about exams. The girl sitting next to me took out a music file and revised. I looked over her shoulder and read her notes - they were no more detailed than for Ordinary level: she was doing Schubert's Unfinished Symphony - we had it for 0 level.
30 April
This afternoon Ruth, Diana and I played at the Wetherby Town hall. The whole concert lasted for about an hour - we took about 15 rnins and two other schools sang and did a one act play. The concert was held in the court room and Ruth and I sat in the dock! until it was our turn to play. I didn't think I could trust my clarinet so borrowed Richard Moody's. G was about the most nervous of us all and was in a terrible state last night. Apparently Kenneth had to almost put him to bed at 12.30. Kenneth compered the show in a very friendly way and we felt that it was more of our show than anybody elses. There was a raftle at the end for a bottle of Martini which Kenneth drew. We were all hoping that one of the kids from school would win it but it was a member of staff instead.
We have well and truly settled into the flat now. The night before last Ruth and I went to talk to Heather (Junior school matron) and stayed until 11.50 talking about Charlie Drake and television programmes. The good thing about it was that she treated us as adults and didn't tell us to go to bed at a certain time. She reckons that the counsellors ought to be given more privileges and not treated as form II people.
This morning Ruth and I went to see the Hills. They have bought one of those horrible bright blue settees. They have red curtains, yellow cushions and are waiting for a grey carpet to be delivered. It's really bright and gaudy.
Thank you very much for the £1. I had to draw a £1 out of the post office because I needed some stamps, envelopes and writing paper.
PS Please will you make my skirt as long as possible. It can always be turned up.
How are you getting on with Tess ofthe D'Urbevilles?
5 May
I got an awful shock yesterday morning. G came to me and told me he was going away and would take some of my work with him to mark. Naturally I thought he was going away for a couple of days but he said that if I wanted to send him some work I should address it to 'The Retreat' in York (the equivalent of Deva mental hospital). He said it as though it was the most natural thing in the world to be going to the Retreat. Officially nobody at school is supposed to know. People have asked various members of staff were G was and they have been told that he has gone away. The staff don't even know that I know where he's gone. I must say I was rather upset. Ruth asked me what was wrong so I told her. She didn't care at all because she doesn't like him anyway but I have a bit of a soft spot for him even though he's terribly unreasonable sometimes. It came as such a shock to me and he said it in such a placid way that I went up to the dorm and had a good cry. I'm going to ask Kenneth if we can write to him.
Tomorrow the whole school is going on a walk - to celebrate Princess Margaret's wedding!! We are going to Pately Bridge and walking for about 15 miles round to Wernside and back again. I am terribly stiff after rounders on Tuesday so it will be agony. We've also got the dance on Saturday. I have resigned from the dance committee and Wendy has been elected secretary to the Senate so I can concentrate on my exams this term. The only job I have left is the tuck shop and I think I'll stick to that. Brian thinks I might merge into the background again if I give it up and he says I need to be very much in the foreground.
On Tuesday evening Brian had a staff meeting so Irene invited Ruth and I to supper at 9.0.clock. Brian came back at 9.30 and we spent the time from then until 10.45 discussing Thomas Hardy, Tess and his other books.
I've given Mr Lester my clarinet to mend. The wretched thing worked perfectly during my lesson. Mr Lester said he's going to give me a Grade V exam himself at the end of term and mark me as though it were a real exam. He's determined to get me up to Grade V before I leave. I enjoy each lesson I have with him because I can feel that I'm improving as we go along.
12 May
Now that G has gone away Barbara is taking us for music lessons and we are realising just how bad we are. We have the aural exam on the 20th of this month and I will have to play my clarinet. I shall probably play the piano too but don't know what.
I was thinking of you last Saturday while we were having the dance and I decided that if I'd had a choice between the Phil and the dance I would probably have chosen the dance. They seem to be getting better as time goes on. In the afternoon Ruth set my hair for me and I went around in curlers until the dance started. Unfortunately Kenneth went down to London and told the master on duty to stop the dance at 11.15 and at that time we were in the middle of a prize dance. When it had finished Rossy told everyone to go to bed and they/we were most surprised because a dance isn't a dance without a last dance - if you see what I mean. However while it lasted it was jolly good.
We were terribly tired after walking 15 miles the day before. At the end of the walk wewere terribly thirsty so Martin said we could go and buy soft drinks from a pub.
Although we couldn't walk a step further we ran full speed up to the pub and ordered cider. Dennis was in there swigging a pint of something but when he had gone out the man behind the bar (he looked like a university student - very far back accent) asked me if Dennis was a member of staff. When I said yes he asked me if he minded us ordering alcoholic drinks so I told him that Dennis didn't have much say in the matter. Two kids bought a bottle of cider, ripped the label off and drank it on the bus. The staff couldn't prove it was cider so they couldn't do anything about it.
PS 10.15 Have just watched Richard II on television.
19 May
Tomorrow Ruth and I have got our first exam - Music Aural and the Viva. We have to get to a school in York which means starting out from here at 7.45 to get there in time for 9.30; the buses to York run about once every four hours; and we can buy lunch there for 1/-. We have the viva first: This consists of playing any instrument the candidate wishes. After this the examiner asks questions about concerts and music the candidate has played etc. Then after break there is the written part - writing down tunes, chords and modulations. This is the part I'm dreading most, the worst being given a tune on paper and having to sing it. I don't even know how to start this!
I can't keep my mind on this letter at all- keep thinking about tomorrow. I think I'd better stop now and write on Sat when it is all over. I have to sharpen some pencils, find a good, large rubber etc.
23 May
The music aural exam was terrible. When we arrived at the school gates we met a man who opened the door for us and ushered us into the hall. He asked us if we were candidates for the music exam. When we said yes he said he would be helping us and we didn't realise until we went into the exam that he was the examiner. There were about 10 candidates altogether: some of them had come from as far as Newcastle, Hull and Scarborough. We had the viva first and I went in second. I played my clarinet and then he asked me to play a piece at the piano by sight - that was OK but then he asked me to sight sing a piece. I didn't know what I was singing but it certainly wasn't what was written on the paper. He asked me how much I'd done and I said not much because our teacher had been ill for some time. Fortunately he knows G - they went to a conference together some time ago so he probably knows what has happened. After this he asked me what clarinet music I had heard and I told him about the Neilson concerto we heard in the holidays. Ruth and I were the only two with wind instruments; we can't fathom out wether this was an advantage or a disadvantage because the examiner didn't reveal wether he was pleased or displeased. Irene and Mrs Swift both think that playing wind instruments would get us through the exam alone - I have my doubts. The dictation part wasn't too bad .... {Details of the dictation) ...
I felt an awful fraud taking the exam - one of the other boys said he thought he'd got everything right and he probably had. His friend said that in music lessons this chap got everything right after the first playing (each piece is played four times). The brainy ones name was Hugh and he looked very like Dennis Matthews although he played the violin not the piano. He had a bit of a stutter - kept on repeating words but it wasn't terribly noticeable. Ruth and I stayed behind after everyone had gone and talked to these two boys. They came from 30 miles south of Newcastle and were both doing advanced Music, English and French. We talked about set works. Hugh was jolly nice
Ruth and I had to stay for the school dinner. We had told the member of staff when we arrived and she fixed it up. We told the boys we were staying to lunch and they said they would like to also (they were amused at having lunch with 300 girls) but when we asked the mistress she said there was no more room. I was most disapointed - I was looking forward to having a longer chat with the boys. They had to go to a restaurant in York.
After lunch Ruth and I spent an hour and a half looking round the shops - I bought a book and a camera film for Roger: Ruth bought some lipstick and shampoo. We almost missed the bus to Tadcaster; just as we stepped on it started - at Tadcaster we had to change. We arrived back at school at 3.30 and went over to the Hills to tell Irene and then I told Barbara all about it. This morning I wrote to G - I wanted to go and see him while we were in York but Kenneth said the 'all clear' hasn't been given yet - he said I could write to him but since then I've heard many of the staff say that Kenneth told them that the children weren't to write. I'll give my letter direct to the post man anyway so it won't be stopped.
On Saturday evening all the people who know how to hold an instrument gathered together in the music room and tried some orchestral works. I went along with my clarinet and had fun. We tried 'Cosi fan Tutti' and the 'Eine Kleine Nacht-musik' and two minuets by Arne: we are hoping to play the latter in assembly. Mr Lester told me to persuade Barbara to persuade me to play one of my Grade V pieces in assembly next Sunday. He thinks it will give me more confidence. I'm terrified - don't mind playing with other people but a solo is different.
Ruth bought a nice pair of light coloured Brevitt shoes in the holidays for £3 and they hurt her at the heels. As she is going to Canada at the end of term and she doesn't want her mother to know she bought them she wants to sell them. I tried them on and they fit me perfectly round the heel but are a bit tight round the toes. - Ruth says she has a broad foot and that they are tight for her but they don't hurt. Anyway the point is that she wants to sell them for in between 30/- and £2 and I would like to buy them. What do you think? I do need a pair of light, heeled summer shoes as my own are terribly sloppy and dirty and most uncomfortable. Ruth hasn't worn them much - they are size four and a half so should be OK for me. Kenneth has to know about the sale and the price etc.
PS There’s chaos here – a girl has run away and the police keep coming up. Dennis is now looking for a photo of her for the police. The girl only ran away for fun - she wasn't unhappy or anything and she's been here for about a year.
31 May
I played in assembly on Sunday! I felt terribly sick for about three days before and thought I would rather die than play. However after I'd played the first two bars I was completely calm and I played very well until the couple of bars before the end which I bungled but managed to right myself for the last couple of notes. I will be playing again in a fortnight and a bit later on in the term only then it will be with other people not by myself.
I had a letter from G this morning in reply to the letter I wrote to him last week telling him about the music exam. He said we were not to worry as he knows Professor Denny to be an excellent examiner and a fair judge: which is exactly why we are worried.
Well I must do an English essay on 'Hamlet' now so had better stop.
5 June
I haven't had any pocket money out all term and Kenneth is getting suspicious - he thinks the VI form have extra money sent! The truth is that I haven't needed any money - Dennis gives me 1/- a fortnight for making his bed with clean sheets and this is enough. Anyway I thought I'd better get some money out although I didn't really want it and seeing as I had it out I thought I might as well spend it on a present for Moya (a friend at home).
14 June
I'm sorry I have neglected you this week. I have been swotting like mad for English exam which we had today. For the last week or so I have done nothing but wallow in English Literature and it has been glorious. I thoroughly enjoyed doing the exam too and feel quite satisfied with what I have done even if I don't pass .
..... Details of the exam papers .....
If I haven't passed I shall feel that I'm just not capable of doing it but I sincerely hope I have. I think it will boost my morale to think I'd managed it in one year instead of two.
Ruth and I are wangling so that we can play some duets in the Parents week end assembly. You've never heard me play my clarinet properly and probably won't get the chance to hear me playing with other people again so I thought it would be a good idea. I shall be absolutely terrified of playing in front of the parents but it will be worth it afterwards if you are there.
By the way I don't want anything for my birthday although I would welcome the rest of my school pocket money! Ruth and I want to go into Leeds on the 25th to celebrate the end of exams although exams won't be over until July 8th! The main reason why we are going then is because we won't have any more free weekends until the end of term and I'm getting desperate for a new bra and also I want to look at the overalls for college.
20th June
The main reason why I'm writing now is that I want Ruth to perm my hair for me this Thursday and to save buying new curlers I was wondering if you could manage to send me the ones you've got by Thursday afternoon.
The weather here yesterday and today has been gorgeous. Yesterday I sunbathed in the morning and managed to get beautifully pink
This Wed. we are going to the York Mystery Plays and Thurs. I have a date with the tele! I'm going to watch Henry IV part II (one of our set books). The last one was terrific. Ruth and I came out swooning over the person who plays the part of Hal and also Falstaff We are dying for the next part. Do watch it if you possibly can. Roll on Thurs. Last night they started serialising the Return of the Native on the Radio another of our set books.
Kenneth has at last decided about camp. He is taking the leavers and councillors from the 7th - 12th July but as I have an exam on the morning of the 8th I will have to go up to Windemere by train alone on the afternoon of the 8th or the morning of the 9th. Ruth isn't going at all. She wants to visits some relatives in M'chester before she goes to Canada so she's going over that weekend. I wish I could come home instead of going up to Windemere.
Sam came up last weekend. He's leaving school this term and is applying for a job with BBC Television - camera man or technician of some sought. We had a chap to take assembly last night who worked as a producer for BBC TV. He gave quite a good assembly on 'faith' - a Mr Ormerod Greenwood. Apparently he's quite well known.
Please don't forget the curlers - blue ones. I may have to buy some more anyway but please send them anyway. Even of they don't arrive by Thursday I can perm my hair on Fri.
25 June
Thank you very much for the skirt and jersey. We had double music before break yesterday and Barbara kept us ages after the bell had gone. I was nearly going frantic because I wanted to collect my post before Alice went for her break. At last she let us go and I took my letters and parcel to the form room to open. I'd just got the brown paper off when Perry and Bart came to send us outside. They told me I had to open my parcel outside - which I wasn't going to do so Ruth and I went up to the dorm. When we were safely in the dorm I undid the parcel properly and noticed the jersey. I wasn't expecting anything as well as the skirt. I tried the skirt on and was just about to put the jersey on when the boys came up and told us to go outside. I refused so Bart picked me up and carried me downstairs and then stood guard at the bottom so that I couldn't get up again until the end of break. At the end of break I went up and tried the jersey on. I think they are both gorgeous - especially the jersey. It's just what I wanted although I hadn't realised before. Ruth has fallen in love with the skirt and the boys also like it. The boys at school are terribly fussy about what the girls wear, and only say they like a thing when they really do like it. Even Galina said she liked it and she's my worst enemy.
I felt as though I looked very attractive yesterday! (Bighead). I had my hair permed on Thursday afternoon. I went down to Wetherby straight after siesta and bought a Toni 'Super'. It's much stronger than the 'Regular' and is recommended for difficult hair: I also bought nine more curlers. Ruth had an exam so couldn't do it but I managed to get the assistant Junior school matron, Elaine, to do it for me. She is only eighteen but is very good at setting peoples hair. She said she had never done a perm before in her life so I assured her that it couldn't look any worse no matter what she did. Anyway Elaine permed it for me and put the neutralising solution on and then she had to get the juniors tea ready. I had to go into tea with my hair soaking wet with a towel round my head turban fashion. Roger Dingley, my co-server, asked me what I was up to so I told him and had to explain the process in great detail. All my table were horrified. So were the staff when they found out. After tea Ruth set it for me and I left it in all night. Yesterday morning I was scared stiff and threatened not to get up if it was awful but luckily it turned out jolly well. The perm is very loose. The back of my hair just turns under without having to be set at all and the sides are a little tighter. Its a gorgeous page boy style with a side parting!! and a semi 'Ward 10' wave!! I hope it looks just as nice next weekend. Ruth is so pleased with mine that she is having hers done on Sunday morning.
Sunday afternoon
We had a pleasant afternoon yesterday. Martin took us into Harrogate and I drew a £1 at the PO. Then we went to buy some shoes for Ruth. I bought a bra, toothbrush and some curlers and then we looked for a blouse for Ruth. I spent the rest of the evening reading a book called the 'Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford - a horrible book about a man whose wife is his best friends mistress and he doesn't know about it until a few people go mad and commit suicide - terribly morbid.
By the way I wore the stockings yesterday and I like them and the skirt does fit. Last night I wore the jersey with the skirt and Roger said I looked quite angelic.
The papers have been full of the big fire at Hendersons for the last few days. (Liverpool Department Store) One paper - I think it was the Telegraph or Express devoted the whole of the front page and three inside pages to photographs and reports etc. Do you know how Marjorie is? (Friend at home) I bet she must be a nervous wreck to go through all that. I hope she wasn't hurt at all.
7 July
Thank you very much for the 10/-. It will be enough I think because there is only a fortnight until the end of term and I won't be spending much between now and then. My shampoo and toothpaste usually run out about a week before the end of term so that's all it will be needed for.
The campers went off this morning so the form room is very peaceful. Wendy and I are going up with Frances of Saturday morning starting at 5 .am!! so we can be there for breakfast.
This morning Ruth, Wendy and I slept in til8.30. We missed school breakfast so had it in the kitchen while everybody else was in assembly. We were lucky because we had two slices of ham and a whole tomato each and fresh white bread and decent tea.
I have spent the last two days trying to revise but am bored stiff - can't wait for tomorrow to be over.
14 July
Have had a terrific weekend up at camp. Got up at 6.0.clock on Saturday morning and had breakfast with Frances in her kitchen. She made some ghastly porridge which nearly made me sick. She made it out of oats, water and salt - no milk and no sugar. We left school at 7.15 and went up with Katherine in her car. Arrived at camp at 10.30 and immediately started to climb Great Gable. The weather was fine and I managed to get quite sunburnt. Arrived back at camp at 7.0.clock in time for supper spud, peas, sausages, raspberries and custard. Had to do all washing up in stream about 100 yds away - used same plates and cutlery for both courses. Went to bed almost straight away.
On Sunday morning we were woken by the boys at 8.30. We went to the stream to get washed and then went to the cooking tent for a cup of tea. This happened every morning. Then the porage was made and then fried spud and tomatoes and we tucked in. Sunday the weather was terrible - it absolutely poured - only 8 out ofthe 18 of us decided to attempt Scafell- I was one of the 8. First we had to walk along the valley in which we were camping and then climb up a waterfall. When we arrived at the top of the waterfall a mist had come down and we could only see about 5 yds in front of us. We sat by a cairn to eat our lunch which consisted of a slice of meat pie with egg in, a tomatoe and a chunk of date. It was so cold and wet we couldn't sit for long so we carried on for about another halfhour and then found that we'd gone in a complete circle and had landed up at the head of the valley from which we had started. By this time my boots (and everybody else's) were full of water and we all wanted to go back although nobody said anything. By the time we were halfway up I felt purely automatic. Anyway we plodded on to the top. We tried to shelter behind the cairn at the top but the wind was whistling all round and we could hardly keep our balance.
We were also terribly exhausted and a weeny bit hysterical. Roger Dingley started to laugh at me because the tops of my legs were shining like red beacons because the sun burn had been chafed by the wind and yet the bottoms of my legs were dead white and the hairs standing on end with the cold. Then everybody started laughing at everybody else and I felt that anyone could easily give way and become hysterical. We were also trying to eat cheese sandwiches which made it all the more funny.
At the top visibility was down to about 5 ft and we were absolutely drenched. I had on a shirt, thick jersey, windjammer, cycling cape, 2 pairs pants, shorts and 2 pairs socks and boots and I found I was wet through. Once or twice, while climbing up, my cape blew right over my head and I thought I was going to lose my balance. The rocks were treachorously slippy because of the rain. Many times I just felt like lying down and dying and it didn't help matters when about half way down Kenneth said he was completely lost. After wandering about for a bit we decided to follow the stream down the mountain and get into the valley. The way down was terribly steep and we had to be careful of precipices and we had to cross lots of swollen streams. It was rather funny because on the way out we had carefully crossed streams by the stepping stones but our feet were so wet by the time we got down into the valley that we just waded thru, often up to our knees. Unfortunately the lump on my heel came up and I developed two blisters which were rather painful but by this time I was past caring what happened. When we were half way along the valley back to camp the rain stopped but my shorts were chafing my legs terribly so I took them off and walked back to camp in my wet knickers.
When we arrived back we were greeted with a nice cup of tea and cream cake and the others helped us off with our boots which were literally full of water. In no time I had changed into warm dry clothes and was having supper - spud, cauliflower, fried spam, gooseberries and custard. Scafell Pike seemed to be terribly far away and long ago and it didn't seem half as cold, wet and miserable when we were sitting in a dry tent, in warm clothes eating hot grub.
Kenneth said we had done jolly well - I think he was a little scared at times and he admitted that they were the worst conditions in which anybody at Wennington had ever climbed. The kids who hadn't been up Scafell said they met two men from a rescue team in the village. Apparantly they had been trying to find a man who had climbed Scafell on Wednesday and he hadn't returned. They said that there were about 1,000 rescue people on and around Scafell on Sunday and yet we didn't meet anybody - it's a horrible thought.
Mondays breakfast consisted of porage and egg bread. The weather was still very wet so Wendy and I decided to stay at camp while the others went up Hellvellyn. My feet weren't too good and it didn't seem to be a very exciting mountain. When everybody else had gone Wendy and myself went down to the farm for a gallon of milk. Then we did some washing up and prepared the cauli for supper. We had no idea ofthe time for the whole day because we had no watch so we had lunch when we felt like it. We made great thick cheese sandwiches, grabbed a couple of tomatoes, made gallons of hot coffee and sat and read. When we had finished and washed up we walked down to Rosthwaite about 2 miles away, bought some cards and had afternoon tea for 1/3 at a 'pots of tea' place. This consisted of 5 half pieces of scone each and a pot of tea which provided six cups of tea - jolly good tea too. We arrived back at camp at the same time as the Hellvellyn crowd which turned out to be 5.0.clock and had another cup of tea and a couple of biscuits. They were most disapointed in Hellvellyn so I was pleased that I'd decided to stay at camp. We had a gorgeous supper that evening spud, cauliflower, fried bacon, eggs and tomatoes all sloshed together and for second course banana and custard. I had eaten so much during the day that I was almost sick but had to go on eating because it was so delicious. After supper we all sat in the cooking tent and K.C. gave us a lecture on the 'big bad world' we are shortly going to be faced with. This lasted until about 10.30 - then we had cocoa and went to bed.
On Tuesday we had to get up early and get the tents down before it started to rain again. We breakfasted on po rage and fried potatoes and then packed the dormobile. Some of the rucksacks were terribly heavy so four of the girls - me included - said we would take the heaviest by bus to Windermere in time to catch the train back. The rest walked over the hills and bogs to get to the train.
We had 2 hrs to wait in Windermere so we went and bought hot dogs and sunbathed on the platform of Windermere station while we waited for the rest to arrive. They arrived at 3.20 and the train left at 3.35. It took and hour to Carnforth - 25 miles north of Blackpool - so we took our boots off and hung our cheesy feet out ofthe windows to air. At Carnforth we had to change - we had 10 mins to spare so bought cups of tea, found we hadn't time to drink it so took them on the train with us. Kenneth had reserved a table compartment for us but it was rather a squash so I went into the next one and lay down and read Then Bart, Perry, Rog and Wendy came in and sat by me. When we went through a tunnel the lights didn't go on and you should have heard the row. One of the boys started to tickle Wendy's legs.
On the way down to Leeds we went through Wennington - where the old school used to be - and managed to get a glimpse of it. It is a gabled affair with turretts surrounded by woods and hills and streams etc.
When we arrived at Skipton about half a dozen girls with very short tight skirts and tons of make-up got on. Our boys were terribly rude. Bart told one of them that he could see the tops of her stockings because her skirt was so short. They kept whistling and imitating them and were generally quite vulgar but it was rather amusing.
We arrived at Leeds at 7.30 - caught the 7.45 bus - left Chris behind without any money - and arrived at Wetherbyat 8.30. The poor bus conductress nearly had a fit when Rog asked for 15 singles to Wetherby - he had worked out how much it would be so she decided to trust him. We arrived at school at 9 pm still trying to quote bits of Words worth. We had been doing this all the time in the lakes because thats were he lived and was inspired etc.
It was queer sitting at a table to eat and not eating off the same plates for all courses also going to the lavatory took some getting used to. I had a gorgeous hot bath and a great blister bursting session and gorgeous clean sheets on my bed. The following morning we didn't waken until9.0.clock. By lunch time we were sick to death of school and wished we were back at camp.
I had my last lesson with Mr Lester today - quite a nice one even though I hadn't been able to practise all week. He showed me my report but I can't remember what it said now - it was quite OK though.
Must go to bed now - will add to it in the morning if there’s anything to say. I hope I havn't bored you ith the account of camp. Goodnight.
Received your letter this morning. I was lucky about camp - I started on Tuesday and had almost finished by Saturday.
I will be coming home on the 25th not the 18th. My time from now til then will be pretty full. Tonight we are hoping to go to see the film about Oscar Wilde at the Rodney. It will be my first 'X' film. Irene and Margaret went last night and said it was very good so I'm quite looking forward to it. Tomorrow we are going round a power station near Leeds with John Swift. Sat. we've got this ballet thing in Leeds. On Monday evening we are organising a fair for the refugees - Wed. is the dance and Thursday Henry V on TV. Did you see the last part of Henry IV on TV last Thursday? I thought it was really terrific and spent most of the night and next day thinking and swooning about it. I liked the death scene and the last scene with Falstaff the best.
Well I must stop now and go and wash my hair - only 10 more days.
WENNINGTON SCHOOL,
WETHERBY, YORKS.
21.7.60
Dear Mummy
I thought I would write my last letter from Wennington on school notepaper. Only three more days to go. We had the end of term dance last night - rather nice - nothing exceptionally wonderful. I did the usual with Kenneth and nearly all the rest with Bart. We've got the Old Schols. dance on Sat.
I'll be arriving on the usual train on Monday - if you can't manage to meet me I'll come down to the office. I'm broke so I won't be able to get home.
See you Monday
Love Pat
PS Rosemary and Judy are coming up so should be fun.