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The Ivy Link Magazine 2021
Ten years of Magazine
The
Iv y Link Friends of
the
Linking Croydon High School
Dear Friends of the school and supported the funding of places for pupils who would
Flicking through the pages of this otherwise not be able to come to Croydon High. We were thrilled earlier
magazine, I am incredibly proud of the this year to open our beautiful Holt Hall in the Junior School, with a spacious
energy, the sense of achievement and, new foyer to welcome audiences and the fantastic Enterprise Technology
crucially, the overwhelming community Suite to house our innovative teaching of technology and computer science.
spirit which jumps off the page and cannot Alumna Helen Holt’s generous legacy donation helped us make this
but inspire the reader. beautiful space a reality.
I write this on our A level results day when we have celebrated – in person
The numerous projects and initiatives over
this year – the incredible success that our pupils’ and teachers’ hard work and
this past year reflect the promise we – as a staff body - made early on in the
dedication has secured. It was a day of happiness, excitement and perhaps
Covid pandemic. We promised we would seek the opportunities inherent in
a hint of nostalgia. So many parents said to me ‘coming to Croydon High
exploring the need to do things differently. Throwing out the rule book, to
was the best decision we ever made.’ It is always a pleasure to see talented,
some extent, has helped us innovate at speed and enhance our provision in
compelling, compassionate and ambitious young women ready to fly off to
exciting and creative ways – as we should, because is this not exactly what
the next stage of their lives with such confidence and excitement.
we ask of our pupils?
And now we turn our thoughts towards the coming year and our plans to
This year, more than any other, has been one when we have pulled together,
continue to offer the most innovative, inspirational and compelling learning
supported each other and ensured our joint efforts have remained focussed
experience for Every Girl, Every Day. To give you just a flavour, our plans so
on our principal mission, encapsulated in our mantra, Every Girl, Every Day.
far include our popular skateboarding club, a bespoke Enterprise Technology
As in every year, there are some wonderful examples of alumnae coming back computer science curriculum for 11-14 year olds, and a unique leadership
to school (or, this year, logging on to virtual events) to offer advice, support, skills curriculum devised to inspire our 15 and 16 year olds. Collaborative
ideas and lessons learned from their considerable collective expertise and learning experiences across the Trust for all year groups will help them share
experience. Over the years you have helped shape our scholars’ programmes and consolidate their learning and widen their sphere of experience as they
(Sapientia and Consilium) by leading interesting sessions for our girls. You make choices that will shape their individual career journeys.
have responded to letters from our Year 9 pupils, you have inspired us with As ever, the wider school community will continue to play a vital role in our
your own lockdown projects, with the books you have written, the careers future. Please do continue to volunteer to support our initiatives, whether
you are enjoying – including our NHS heroes – and indeed by becoming that be working with the girls directly or helping the leadership team shape
members of staff and having direct input into our girls’ lives and futures. our overall strategy.
For the first time we had three ‘gap students’ who are recent alumnae and Remember, this will always be your school and you will always be welcome
their love of the school has shone through in everything they have done. here so do keep in touch and let us know where life takes you! And now
This year you also helped secure our success in the GDST Fit Feb initiative that the world has opened up a little (at least this is true at the time of
– how fantastic that the outcome of such a joint community project saw us writing!) we look forward to welcoming many of you back to school for a long
at the top of the GDST leader board! Thank you to all of you for remaining overdue visit!
so engaged in school life! With very best wishes and appreciation
Your contribution goes further than engaging in the support of our pupils. Emma Pattison
Many of you have contributed financially to the growth and development Headmistress
Dear Ivy Link Family
Welcome to this, the 10th edition of the Ivy Link Magazine.
The Celtic meaning of the word ivy refers to ‘connections and friendships’ because of the plant’s propensity to interweave
in growth. Ever furrowing and intertwining, the ivy is a testimony to the long-lasting connections and bonds. I think this
very fittingly describes our network, our community, our family. It has been incredible over the last ten years to link with
countless strong, remarkable, inspiring women.
You will see from the stories in all our magazines how our paths interweave, again and again (even in a pandemic) in so many
ways, enriching our whole community. This unique relationship between our school and our alumnae is very important to us.
The ivy is also incredibly durable and can withstand harsh conditions, a symbol of survival and determination. I couldn’t be prouder to see how Croydon High
constantly adapts to this chaotic world. Uninterrupted education for pupils continues whatever the circumstances, and the well-being of all is the
overriding concern.
I am very excited to be planning ‘in-person’ events and reunions for this coming school year, so watch this space! Take care and stay safe.
My very best wishes
Karen Roe
Alumnae Relations Manager
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THE CLASS OF 1970 - 2020
‘ZOOM’ REUNION
Towards the end of 2019 I began to contact friends from and invited others into the conversation, worked well. Simple
the class of 1970 with a view to meeting up at the Ivy Link housekeeping rules, like staying on silent unless speaking, and raising
summer lunch in 2020 to celebrate our 50th anniversary our hands to speak were all we needed for the conversation to flow.
since leaving Croydon High. Conversations have
As the pandemic developed and the chance of meeting face to ranged from light-
face faded it was suggested by some of our year that perhaps we hearted sharing of
could have a virtual ‘Zoom’ reunion instead. I have to admit to funny memories
being sceptical as to how this would work with perhaps 30-40 – like the copy of
participants, but we decided to go ahead. Lady Chatterley’s
Lover that lived in
Our virtual reunion took place in July 2020. A small group of us
the school pond –
– Gillian Turner and Gaye Murrills in Australia and Sallie Thomas
to deeper topics.
and myself in the Sarah (Sallie) Thomas
UK had several We have explored
planning meetings the lasting impact of our education at Croydon High – in what ways
and were helped had it informed our approach to learning or influenced our career
by others who pathways? Had it influenced our life choices around relationships
contributed photos and parenting? We talked about what it was like to grow up in the
and gave useful aftermath of World War Two, and shared stories of our parents’
technical advice. wartime experience. More recently we broached the impact of
The four of us have feminism in our lives.
Gillian Turner continued to meet There have been some challenging moments, with sharing of deeply
regularly and have enjoyed getting to know each other better – an personal stories. People have listened without judgement. Several
unexpected bonus of this venture. have told us – either in the group, or in follow up emails – that our
Thirty-six of us attended the Zoom reunion, and what began as a zoom conversations have brought closure to aspects of their school
one-off event has morphed into an ongoing series of thought- experience, after hearing from others with similar stories.
provoking conversations and sharing of memories. We have had We have also remembered classmates who have sadly died –
three follow-on conversations, with around 30 joining each time, including our dear friend Sarah Mason who organised our 20 year
and now have contact with more than 60 people from our year. reunion in 1990.
While disappointed by the COVID-19 induced cancellation of the The email thread
planned physical that followed
reunion, we the second
discovered some conversation
unexpected upsides (entitled Memories
to our zoom of Croydon High)
conversations that circled the globe
we might not have Sue Tiffin over a couple of
experienced in months, gathering comments and reflections from 55 women. It
person. For a start ran to 65 pages!
Gaye Murrills we were joined by Many have told us how much they valued the opportunity to have a
women from around the world; from Australia, New Zealand, South conversation across the whole group, recognising that in a physical
Africa, the United States and Europe, many of whom would not reunion they were more likely to gravitate to their small clique of
have travelled to Croydon for the Reunion. former friends. New relationships have been formed, and others
Zoom obliged us to give careful thought to how we facilitated the strengthened. Some people have also been pursuing smaller Zoom
conversation. We didn’t want a series of talking heads; we wanted groups as a result of the virtual reunion.
to promote a real conversation. While the first zoom was mostly a We still hope to be able to meet in person – maybe in 2022 – but if
reintroduction to each other, subsequent conversations have each we do, I think it will be a very different event where we will mix and
had a specific focus usually emerging from the previous conversation. chat with a wider group of people than we might have done without
We found having two facilitators, who introduced different prompts the Zoom conversations. Sue Hanson (Tiffin)
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Our very own NHS Heroes
value of occupation for all and the deprivation of occupation that
people in critical care experience. Occupation is every activity
that we do throughout our day – for survival, connection, and fun.
We have all experienced the huge impact having those activities
curtailed can have on our physical and mental wellbeing. We’ve
adapted and moved many activities online but missed the face-
to-face elements. In critical care, people are segregated from all
these important occupations.
Early in the pandemic, we knew an expansion of our critical care
resource as well as provision for rehabilitation and recovery would
be necessary. I cannot even express what the first wave was like. I
would travel to work, fearful, on an empty train in what appeared to
be a post-apocalyptic
FRAN BARRINGTON 2012 world. I would arrive
Working as a doctor in intensive care through the pandemic has to face a team
been both emotionally and physically demanding, but also a real looking to me for
privilege. I feel honoured to have had the opportunity to serve the direction. Another
nation during this difficult time and I have never felt more proud intensive care unit
of our national health service. This photograph of me was taken had to be opened. We
by one of my consultants for his blog, where he writes about his were lucky that, for
experience during the pandemic. the most part, we had
PPE, but trying to
One week, we were looking after more than 230 patients with
manage a physically
Covid at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesborough,
demanding job in a
where I work. 40 of these patients were being cared for in the
white hazmat overall,
critical care units. With double the number of patients critically
sweaty latex gloves, a visor, and thick mask was not pleasant. Nor
unwell, we had to create makeshift intensive care units around the
was seeing the look of fear in patients’ and colleagues’ eyes alike.
hospital, including the unit shown in this photograph. I am very
fortunate to work with a great team of people, who have made it Outside of my working hours, I was providing clinical expert
easier to weather the storm. opinion to support the pandemic response. I had the opportunity
of feedback on PHE PPE guidance and working with
PENNY FIRSHMAN 2000 NHSE/I on the guidance for Covid-19 recovery. I also co-wrote
As with many others, living through a pandemic this past year some now widely used information leaflets on fatigue management
has been a rollercoaster. When I joined the NHS 17 years ago, and energy conservation post Covid-19 for the Royal College of
at no point did I ever consider that my life might be at risk. Occupational Therapists.
Nor did I ever consider that I could be providing clinical insight
Ironically, I then became a victim of Covid-19 myself, which
for NHS England/Improvement (NHSE/I) and Public Health
turned into Long Covid. In May 2020, I lost my sense of smell
England (PHE) on the management of a pandemic and long-term
completely. I worsened over the next three weeks, but thankfully
recovery, particularly for patients who have been critically ill.
never needed hospitalisation. Over 12 months on, I still have quite
I am a leading occupational therapist in the field of critical care marked symptoms and cannot manage day-to-day life, let alone
medicine. I am particularly focused on increasing awareness of the work. I have some mild heart damage, difficulty breathing, changes
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to my mild asthma, chronic headaches, reflux, and severe fatigue. Last year, I took retirement, but returned part time as Lead Nurse
Luckily, I already know that rest and pacing is the recommended for Adult Safeguarding. In January, Covid vaccinations for our
treatment for post-viral illness and have been putting this into staff became a top priority and during the first three months of
practice from day one. this year I have been part of a leadership team delivering the Pfizer
vaccine to all of our staff.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates around
869,000 people have Long Covid. It is a very isolating illness In 2016, I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and am now an
because the symptoms are mostly invisible. There are many peer ambassador for those living with Parkinson’s, closely working with
support groups on Facebook and Twitter, with a real focus on Parkinson’s UK.
patient advocacy.
The NHS is an incredible organisation to work for and has given me
Occupational therapists have key skills in supporting people with a fantastic career, spanning 35 years. Forever changing, forever
pacing and fatigue management, as well as managing return to challenging, and always rewarding. And made more amazing as I
work effectively, but there is a chronic shortage of occupational watch my daughter follow in my footsteps, currently undertaking
therapists. I have started a group specifically for occupational her final year of nurse training. A proud mummy!
therapists who have Long Covid, to support my peers and to
promote better recovery and support by workplaces for all.
THIVYA
SIVALINGAM
If you have Long Covid and are interested in peer support, please 2015
follow the accounts below.
I am thrilled to have
Facebook and Twitter: Long Covid Support or Long Covid exceeded a personal
Support Group record of vaccinating
Facebook: Long Covid OT more than 1,000
patients, ranging from
Twitter: LongCovidOT
18 to 95+ and from
CLARE incredibly diverse
ADDISON backgrounds, with their
(MANTLE) 1983 first and second doses
of the Covid vaccine.
After leaving Croydon
It has been an absolute
High School in 1983,
pleasure working from the beginning with such a hardworking
I started my nursing
team at the Guy’s and St Thomas’s vaccination centre. Being part
training at the Thomas
of one of the largest vaccination programme rollouts in the world
Guy School of nursing
has heightened my gratitude for the life-saving vaccinations we
at Guy’s Hospital,
have access to in the UK. I am looking forward to the end of the
qualifying in January
pandemic – one jab at a time!
1987. A specialist career
within neuroscience Thank you to Fran, Penny, Clare and Thivya for sharing your
nursing followed at the stories. We are so grateful for all you do as part of our wonderful
National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, the Maudsley Hospital NHS. Our heartfelt appreciation goes to all who work for the
in Camberwell, and then as senior sister for the paediatric NHS, every one of you a hero.
neuroscience services at the Atkinson Morley Hospital in London.
A short spell working for the Bahrain defence force in Bahrain,
setting up a surgical ward for expatriates within the military
service, was a highlight before returning to the NHS in 1995 to
lead practice development for nursing at St George’s Hospital.
With a husband and the first of two children in tow, a move out
of London to Surrey prompted a professional change: returning
to general nursing, this time as Matron for surgery at Surrey and
Sussex Healthcare Trust in Redhill, where I am still working.
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Keeping it in the GDST Family
We are fortunate at Croydon High to have many staff who are also alumnae – mainly from Croydon High, but also from
the wider GDST family. We asked each member three questions…
1. Most memorable moment from your school days.
2. Favourite record from the year you left school.
3. What you love about working at Croydon High today.
Claire Male (Pageot) 1985 – Junior Madeleine Humphrey (Chandler) 2003
School Teacher, Humanities Coordinator – Head of Progression & Futures
1. A Guild Rep setting up our classroom 1. Probably singing Carmina Burana at
as a Pirates’ Grotto for Guild Day; the Westminster Central Hall. Kermit’s feet
day the Whitgift boys spent the day in (if you know, you know)!
school undercover as German Exchange 2. Embarrassingly enough, at the time, it
students – only to be found out when was probably Evanescence “Bring Me to
they were told to change for Games; Life”. With the benefit of age and experience, No Doubt “It’s My Life”.
Miss Plant, the Games Mistress, on the front page of the newspaper 3. The mantra ‘every girl, every day’ is embodied by the school in
chasing Manchester United off our Hockey pitches. And I will never everything it does, and pupils are supported on an individual level to
forget meeting Mrs Macmillan on our first day of Year 3 – we have achieve their very best.
been friends ever since.
2. “Money For Nothing” by Dire Straits. Ros Broyd (Willey) 1973
3. The enthusiasm of the girls and supportiveness of their parents. – Junior School Drama
Teacher
Eileen Gell 1976 (Sutton High) Teacher 1. They all centre around
of Biology and KS3 Chemistry Drama, unsurprisingly.
1. The Christmas 6th Form Concert I arrived aged 14 from
2. ABBA - “Dancing Queen” a school in “the North”
3. Working with such creative girls. and was given the role of
Miranda in The Tempest.
The enormous stage had
Jane Monaghan (Shackel) 1987
a sheet of clear plastic hung across the front and the audience viewed
– Junior School Teacher,
the play through a huge semi-circular hole cut out in it. It was supposed
English Coordinator
to represent the “bubble” of the magical island Prospero controlled.
1. A helicopter arriving on the snowy
Fantastic staging has always been a feature at Croydon High!
school field to drop a girl to school!
And there was also the time I nearly set the school alight while
2. The album “Tango in the Night” by
trying to create a sailing ship mast effect with the lights, alone, after
Fleetwood Mac.
school one evening in preparation for “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
3. Working with such a great team of people – colleagues and girls. are Dead”. Memo to self: do not use cardboard cut-outs to
make silhouettes.
Libby Head 1997 (Bromley High) – 2. It has to be Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”.
Director of Sport 3. I have been involved with the school so long now, I feel part of the
1. My selection for the Under 18 England furniture. Having also had my daughter here as a pupil may contribute
netball team. to the feeling that it is very much a family affair. I love it when the
2. “Who Do You Think You Are” by the elegant young women of the Senior School stop to exchange their
Spice Girls. news with the teacher who has known them since Nursery. It’s
3. The amazing camaraderie and mutual watching your extended family grow up year by year. The staff and
respect shown within the whole Croydon High community. the girls are such a wonderful bunch…!
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Sarah Raja (Mountford) 2002 (Sutton High) Kitty Howie 2011 –
– Head of Junior School Second in Charge of
1. A Sixth-Form Art trip to Moscow and St Petersburg – we had so English
much fun. The overnight train was a particular highlight! There are so many
2. Anything by Justin Timberlake! to choose from… I
3. The people – pupils and staff. It is such a warm and welcoming absolutely loved my
community and I feel genuinely lucky to work here. school days here.
After a lot of careful
consideration, my most
Sarah Inglis (Macdonald) 2008 – Junior School Teacher
memorable moments
1. The Year 8 Ski Trip!
are…
2. “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” by Panic! At the Disco.
1. A Maths teacher
3. The strong and supportive community that the GDST offers. driving around country
lanes at top speed with headlights on full beam, tirelessly looking
Rose Gower 2016 – Gap Tutor for my silver Duke of Edinburgh group who had failed to turn up to
1. Probably our pantomime or camp(!). It is only now as a teacher that I realise all the hundreds of
fashion show! small ways that our staff care for our students every day.
2. Anything by Ariana Grande. When we were completing our A-level Geography coursework, we
3. It feels like family! needed to be thigh-deep in a river taking samples. Cue a delayed –
and hilarious – reaction from a classmate when she realised her puppy
had been chewing on her wellingtons and had left puncture marks!
Katie Harris 2016 – Gap Tutor
Becoming one of the six prefects in Upper Sixth and swishing about
1. Loud lunchtime singing
in the gown during assembly, which was every day. The fledgling
sessions in Sixth Form!
responsibility definitely helped to develop my confidence. I think
2. “Shut Up and Dance” (reminds
it’s a very positive thing there are now so many opportunities for our
me of our fashion show!).
students to develop their leadership skills.
3. Everyone makes it such
2. My top albums from this year were “What Did You Expect from
a lovely atmosphere, it’s hard
The Vaccines?” or “Walk” by the Foo Fighters. My most memorable
to leave!
single of the year is Rihanna and Calvin Harris’s ‘We Found Love’.
3. I’m able to combine my research and Further Education easily into
Leah Watkins 2019 – Gap Tutor
my teaching to keep improving my practice. English is collaborative
1. The hockey and netball tours to South Africa and Barbados! with other departments and organisations around the country and
2. “1999” by Charli XCX and Troye Sivan. I hope this can continue to develop. The main thing I love about
3. Everyone here, staff and girls, is so lovely and makes my job so fun working at Croydon High, however, is the students – it’s all for them!
that it doesn’t really feel like work! And playing with Otto of course.
Clare Macmillan (Corbett) 1985
Olivia Ricketts 2017 – Gap Tutor – Admissions Registrar (Junior School and Sixth Form)
1. The Croydon High School & Whitgift Fashion Show in Upper Sixth 1. The Sixth Form Ski Trip to Italy with Trinity (Pam Putman was one
– best weekend and I loved hosting the show! I also loved Skern in of the teachers on the trip!).
Year 7 - an amazing trip to ease into the transition to Senior School. 2. “Something About You” by Level 42.
2. “New Rules” by Dua Lipa. 3. I love seeing the girls’ journey through the school and how they
3. Everything! But mainly the girls and staff. They are always so grow from new, nervous Juniors to awesome, sassy Sixth Formers.
positive, funny, and kind.
Grace Lewis (Sivagnanaretnam) 2006 (Northwood High)
Vanessa Reeve (Connor) 1988 – Finance Manager – Examinations, Assessment and Data Officer
1. My class winning the inter-form end-of-term netball tournament 1. Walking into the library on the first day of Year 7 and my jaw hitting
in Year 8, despite being underdogs. Our form tutor (also PE teacher) the floor. I’d never seen such a beautiful room before, with books as
didn’t believe us! far as the eye could see. It was paradise for a bookworm like me.
2. “I Think We’re Alone Now” by Tiffany. I LOVE this song and 2. The best-selling album from the year I left school was “Eyes Open”
requested it numerous times at an 80s nightclub on my hen weekend! by Snow Patrol. A masterpiece!
3. I love hearing the snippets of conversations the girls have when 3. There’s nothing not to love! The staff and pupils are so friendly – I
passing my room! feel like a part of the family after just one year here.
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GDST Alumna of the Year
Reluctant to throw them away, but unable to find a suitable charity
to take them, she sent them to a friend overseas who delivered
them to a children’s oncology ward.
Seven years on, over two million pairs of shoes are walking again in
49 countries, more than 20,000 pairs alone have found their new
feet here in the UK since the start of the first national lockdown,
helping children in poverty during the pandemic.
Sal’s Shoes has received backing from the Duke and Duchess of
Sussex and Marks & Spencer, whose recent donation reached
children at an IDP camp in Nigeria. Not satisfied with this, Camilla
has now set up Clemie’s Clothes (named after her daughter),
which finds new owners for children’s fancy dress outfits around
the world.
“No other 7-year period has gone on to have had such a positive
Croydon High’s nomination shortlisted as a impact on my life than my time at Croydon High. I feel so
2021 Finalist privileged to have received the education I did and leave equipped
We were delighted in April to announce that Croydon High’s with the multitude of skills that have stood me in such good stead
incredible alumna Camilla Bowry had been selected as a finalist for what I’ve gone on to achieve.”
for the GDST Alumna of the Year Award! We are really proud of Camilla and all she has achieved but in spite
Camilla is the founder of charity Sal’s Shoes, delivering shoes to of incredibly strong support for her, she was pipped to the post in
children living in poverty around the world. Sal’s Shoes (named this year’s vote.
after her son) began in 2013 after Camilla collected a bag of her To find out more and support Sal’s Shoes visit
son’s outgrown but not outworn shoes. www.salsshoes.com
Congratulations to Wimbledon High’s Samira Ahmed,
multi-award-winning journalist, writer and broadcaster,
leading the way on equal pay for women, who received the
GDST Alumna of the Year Award 2021.
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“You can make anything by writing.” C.S. Lewis
We celebrate not one, but five Croydon High alumnae authors…
Dr Michelle Tempest 1994 In her book, “Multisensory Living in Ancient Rome: Power and
Space in Roman Houses”, Hannah answers some important
Michelle has worked
questions for classicists who have considered what everyday life was
as a hospital doctor,
like in ancient Greece and Rome: did the slaves, visitors, inhabitants,
psychiatrist, and cognitive
or owners experience the same home differently? Hannah draws
analytical therapist for
on a diverse range of evidence and an innovative amalgamation of
over a decade. She is now a
methodological approaches to explore multisensory experience
partner in a healthcare strategy consultancy company, Candesic,
– auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, and visual – in domestic
and personally invests in AI early-stage companies. She also teaches
environments in Rome, Pompeii, and Herculaneum for the first
ethics and law at the University of Cambridge. Her book, “Big Brain
time, from the first century BCE to the second century CE.
Revolution: Artificial Intelligence – Spy or Saviour?”, examines how
AI is changing the world and whether it’s changing it for better or Anna Mazzola 1996
for worse, offering unique insights into the consequences of mixing
As well as Senior Solicitor
psychology with technology. And the book is extremely accessible,
at the Centre for Women’s
making it a wonderful read for anyone with an interest in learning
Justice, Anna is also a
more about AI but with little to no knowledge of the field.
seasoned author of historical
Nikki Smith 1991 thrillers and Gothic fiction,
whose novels explore themes of crime and injustice. Her debut novel,
Nikki studied English
“The Unseeing”, won an Edgar Allen Poe Award in the US!
Literature at the University
of Birmingham and went on Her second novel, “The Story Keeper”, is a period novel of folk
to forge a career in finance, tales, disappearances, and injustice set on the Isle of Skye. It follows
working for a variety of heroine Audrey as she visits the Isle of Skye to collect folk and fairy
companies including a city bank and a trampoline park. She’d always tales from the community and its inhabitants in 1857. When the
wanted to write and, prompted by someone she hadn’t seen since body of a young girl washes up on the beach – the second in only a
school contacting her to ask if she’d ever done anything with her few weeks – she gets caught up in a mysterious tangle that may be
writing, signed up to a Curtis Brown creative writing course in 2017. linked to the death of her own mother some year previous. It is an
She went on to win a short story competition and mentorship from enthralling read!
author Amanda Reynolds, before being accepted for representation
Sarah Nelson Smith 1998
by Sophie Lambert and C+W. Her debut novel, “All in Her Head”,
went on submission in January 2019 and she accepted a pre-empt Award-winning lawyer and
business leader Sarah is
offer for a two-book deal with Orion ten days later. The book was
currently Global Head of
optioned for television before it was published. “Look What You
Corporate & Commercial,
Made Me Do” is her second novel and was published in April 2021.
Legal for Booking.com. In
‘Creepy and unsettling – a tense, toxic read that will wrong-foot a previous role as the Chief
you at every turn’ (Charlotte Duckworth). Nikki lives in Guildfold Legal Officer at Kentucky Fried Chicken, she helped the company
with her husband, two daughters, and Burmese cat, Saffi, who steer through its 2018 #ChickenCrisis. She has been listed on the
thinks she’s a dog. Lawyer Hot List 2018, the General Counsel Powerlist 2019 and
2016, and won the UK In-House Lawyer of the Year in 2014. She
Dr Hannah Platts 1998
is eagerly sought after at global legal conferences and serves as a
Hannah is a Lecturer trustee for two charities.
in Ancient History and
Her book, “You Didn’t Mention the Piranhas,” looks at the lessons
Archaeology at Royal she learned while navigating the 2018 #ChickenCrisis at KFC,
Holloway, University of when a distribution failure meant hundreds of KFC restaurants
London, whose research were forced to close. Humorous and insightful, Sarah shares her
has focused on the material culture and social history of ancient experience and expertise in a refreshing, relatable account – the
Rome. She is also Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the perfect guide on how to battle highs and lows, develop self-
Body and Material Culture at Royal Holloway. awareness, and own your story both in business and personal life.
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THE SAPIENTIA AND CONSILIUM PROGRAMMES
Building a strong foundation for future excellence. Harnessing the power of our network.
Despite the pandemic, this year we have been lucky enough to host (albeit virtually)
some of our fantastic alumnae, as part of our Academic Scholars’ Programme. A series
of thought-provoking presentations seeking to address our relationship with society and
each other, particularly in times of challenge. These talks stretched and challenged our
academic scholars in their thinking, taking them beyond the bounds of the curriculum.
Michelle Tempest, 1994 Our scholars were so lucky to be able to hear Sheena speak about
her personal journey and hear tips that will benefit our pupils in
‘Big Brain Revolution: Artificial
becoming more resilient and better able to deal with difficult
Intelligence - Spy or Saviour?’
situations they may be faced with.
Dr Michelle Tempest has worked
Rachel Pendered, 1995
as a hospital doctor, psychiatrist,
and cognitive analytical therapist ‘On Female Entrepreneurship’
for over a decade. Now she is a
Rachel Pendered is co-founder of
partner in a healthcare strategy consultancy company, Candesic.
Media Zoo, a film, communications,
She is the author of the book ‘Big Brain Revolution: Artificial
and digital learning agency - the
Intelligence – Spy or Saviour?’, which she generously gifted a copy
only agency in the world to win
of, to each of our pupils who attended the session. The talk was
the Cannes Grand Prix in the same
incredibly interesting and posed some pertinent and perplexing
year as the New York Film Awards! She is a passionate advocate
questions regarding the future (and ethics!) surrounding artificial
for female entrepreneurship and hopes to play her part in inspiring
intelligence.
the next generation of female entrepreneurs; she certainly inspired
Margaret Esiri (Evans), 1960 our pupils, giving them advice gained from her own experience of
her journey to becoming an incredibly successful entrepreneur.
‘The Brain - Understanding Its
Diseases and What We Can Do Su-Lin Garbett-Shiels, 1998
About Them’
‘Girls’ Education Around the
This was an incredibly stimulating World’
and informative session from
Su-Lin is an International
Margaret Esiri, Emeritus Professor
development professional,
of Neuropathology at the University of Oxford. She has worked
currently leading the COVID-19
for most of her life in Oxford but her work there has been
corporate response at the Foreign,
interspersed with many short visits to Nigeria, where her late
Commonwealth and Development
husband had a clinic in a remote part of the country. Her research
Office. Previously, as Deputy
has been mainly concerned with trying to understand the
Head of the Country Programmes Cabinet at DFID, she was
pathology of multiple sclerosis and other inflammatory diseases
responsible for providing the Director General with strategic
and dementia. The science behind these diseases and the valuable
oversight and assurance of £4bn of the UK’s aid budget. Recently,
work that has taken place to understand them better, were the
she spent 3 years posted to Indonesia, as Deputy Head of the UK
foci of her wonderful session.
Climate Change Unit at the British Embassy. Su-Lin has over
Sheena Pirbhai (Morjaria), 10 years of expertise and experience working in international
2000 climate change policy, development, and economics for the UK
Government. Su-Lin’s talk about the progress that has been
‘Mental Health and Resilience
made, but more importantly, the work that still needs to be done,
- How to Manage Stress and
in terms of ensuring all girls receive the best possible education
Anxiety to Be the Best Version of
was illuminating.
Yourself’
Sheena is the CEO and
founder of Stress Point Health, a platform developing digital
solutions to mental health issues. Previously her career focused
on fundraising and investing in the Technology, Media and
Telecoms sector and she is a member of the British Association of
Female Entrepreneurs.
10The Eastbourne Evacuation 1939-1940
Di Clarke (Singleton) 1968 writes “Many thanks for the magazine, a fantastic amount of info and news and so many memories.
I like your comment regarding Dr Adams having to adapt to evacuation - she brought some girls here to an empty school
building. It was only a few years ago that I realised that it is a school about half a mile from where I live in Eastbourne.
I quite like thinking about Dr Adams and Miss Mounsey plodding around the streets of Eastbourne in their intrepid fashion!
The Autumn wore on and the winter began to show signs of being
a severe one, but expeditions and activities went on and we even
managed to keep a war-time Guild Day
In the Spring of 1940 arrangements were made to transfer the
whole group to Boston House School. We were given one complete
floor to ourselves, and we were all happier to be established in
suitable dormitories under proper school conditions.
The war news became increasingly grave and by May our days
were governed by times when we could listen to the Broadcasts by
Mr. Churchill. At night we went up to the tower room and saw the
skies lit up by incessant tracer bullets, and the ground under our
feet moved with far off reverberation of gunfire.
The green book of Croydon High history 1874-1954 has good We knew we should be moved again. A Government order told
accounts of the perils of evacuation and the challenges faced by us that we would entrain for another destination on Sunday, June
Dr Adams. It mentions that there was a boarding group staying at 23rd, but the place remained secret.
The New Wilmington Hotel, still a thriving hotel here, and that
they used to meet up for walks at an “inn,” The Tally Ho, still there
and in business as a steak house around the corner from where I
live. “
An extract from the 80th Anniversary green book…
Our orders to move arrived, and our party, still with destination
unknown, assembled with a vast number of other Croydon children
on the Fairfield Car Park. In the late September afternoon, the
Eastbourne party arrived, and they were taken to a schoolroom
in Old Town. The work of billeting went on and by nightfall all the
girls had been taken to various houses. All the familiar routine of
daily life was suddenly changed,
The new buildings of the Eastbourne High School had only just
been completed; our school, Coloma Convent School and the
Convent of Notre Dame were to share the building.
Miss Adams would visit, tour school and billets, and hold her
famous staff meetings long after nightfall.
By October, plans were ready for the opening of a boarding group
in a wing of the New Wilmington Hotel. By December there were
131 girls in Eastbourne.
11FIT FEB AT CROYDON HIGH
During the winter lockdown, the Croydon High community was invited to compete in the GDST Get Active Competition. The school that
covered the most kilometres throughout February would be crowned the GDST most active school. Without hesitation, we accepted the
challenge alongside 23 of our sister schools. February 2021 became known as FIT FEB!
The competition was open to all pupils, staff, parents and alumnae to walk, run, cycle, or row as many kilometres as possible. Everyone could
get involved whatever their level of fitness. Distances were collated and submitted with proof to the organisers each Sunday evening. It
was amazing to see how the Croydon High community engaged, including over 30 alumnae from home and abroad - Europe, Canada, and
Malaysia. All participants stepped up to the mark come rain or shine or snow! Half term turned into marathon week with many students
completing the 42.195km marathon distance.
Julia Favre (Norris) 1980 Mary Knight (Hermes) 1963
Charlotte Teal (Oliver) 2006
Hazel Yeo (Millen) 1985
Emily Beck 2014 & Kiera Ibrahim 2015
Hannah Lipczynski 2016 & Kitty Howie 2011
Katie Kingswood (Horne) 2011
Nicola Coulthwaite 2017
Sophie Haden-Scott 2017 &
Olivia Ricketts 2017
Not only were we busy getting active, we also helped support several fantastic
charities including MIND, ARC Centre, Cancer Research, The Childhood
Trust, and The Rowdown Foundation. February 2021 was a fabulous month
for Croydon High – the passion, enthusiasm and community spirit that
resonated throughout shone through. We were delighted to be crowned the champions covering a mammoth 91,939.03km. A massive
thank you to all pupils, families, staff, former staff, and alumnae, who pulled together to earn this fantastic accolade, and especially to the PE
department’s Mrs Beck who inspired, organised and encouraged us all throughout.
12Lockdown Hobbies
Being in lockdown is something almost everyone around the world has gone through. Here some of our
alumnae share their new or revived interests during this unusual time.
VICKY BIGNELL (STONE) 1974 very popular, and it was a good way of thanking our tireless NHS
frontline staff! I mostly made cakes, but the only picture I could
unearth was of some biscuits. A wartime recipe my mother
used to make when we were evacuated to Lancashire – all very
inexpensive ingredients including oats and lard! It seems to work
just as well when butter and golden syrup is used instead of sugar.
DI CLARKE (SINGLETON) 1968
In terms of lockdown hobbies, I did
revitalise my knitting skills, which
had been dormant for over 40
I live in Melbourne, Australia. For over three months in 2020 we
years! I managed to put together
were in lockdown, with many restrictions. Many previous hobbies
18 sets of baby outfits, and, in total,
had to be moved online, so I persevered with Zumba and bridge
my book group sent about 50 sets
virtually. I also decided to join a virtual choir, as I had never done
to a charity in Africa that cares
anything musical while at school, having instead spent a significant
for abandoned babies. Buoyed
part of my school life on the netball or tennis courts. I have always
with success, I then completed 12
loved to sing, though! It is called PopChoir and I spent over nine
blankets, which I gave to our local
months of 2020 singing with this choir. I don’t know what our
Cats’ Protection League and to
music teacher, Miss Hunt, would have thought of my singing, but
Raystede, a local animal rescue sanctuary.
I absolutely love it! Some weeks, I would sing up to four times a
week. It was something to look forward to at 7:30 PM. At the And finally, more music from down under…
end of 2020 when our lockdown eased, we moved into halls, and
CYBÈLE COUTET 1995
I now attend once a week. It helped get me through lockdown and
has given me a very unexpected new hobby! We have a concert in Being so far away in
June and my ninety-one-year-old mother is coming to watch. She Australia, I really felt
is so excited to come to see me perform on stage in the warmth, far from my community
after years of watching me play netball in the freezing cold! This during lockdown. My dad
photo of my PopChoir shows our only performance so far – on a called one day early on
cold and wet Melbourne evening. I am on the left-hand side, about and said, “Cybèle, many
halfway up. people are stuck inside
– you have the beautiful
CHRIS HOGH (SMITH)
outdoors in Australia, maybe you can sing a song for them
1958
and bring the outdoors into their homes”. From then, I began
One of my daughters, Louise arranging old hymns in a more modern, Cybèle way and recording
Hogh (Putney High 1987) and videoing them to share with others. Sometimes people send
is Chief of Medicine at me requests and I try my best to fulfil them. I have now recorded
Kingston Hospital. As such, about 85 songs, one each week since the beginning of lockdown. A
she had a responsibility for Christmas and Easter programme, some French hymns, and some
reorganising the wards to of my own originals. I have loved working on them all, to share
cope with Covid patients and with anyone who wants to listen. It has been an amazing learning
was even working night shifts herself, something she hadn’t done and sharing experience, and a way for me still to be able to share
since her junior doctor days! Her twin sister Helen and I tried to music at a time when lessons, concerts, and performances have
do our bit by baking a constant supply of cakes for the night shift been halted. This all started because of lockdown and has ignited a
teams, so that they had a treat to enjoy in their midnight breaks. passion in me to keep sharing music through all of life’s situations.
So not a new hobby, but a revived one – they certainly seemed My songs can be found at www.cybele.com.au
13THE IVY LETTERS PROJECT 2021
We are now into the second year of our Ivy Letters Project, keeping alive (or introducing) the lost art of letter writing!
A recent National Literacy So many wonderful stories were shared through the letters,
Trust report found that two- we certainly could compile a book! Several responses included
thirds of school-aged children photos, badges, books and paintings. Wendy Wallace, 1968, sent
had never written a letter the perfect book entitled 800 Years of Women’s Letters written
simply for pleasure. Those in 1992 by former member of staff Olga Kenyon (Miss Brooks in
who have done so report that the 60s).
the process makes them feel
This inspiring and fascinating book is a truly comprehensive study
happy, and specifically, they
of women’s letters, covering a wide range of topics from politics,
really like the thought of making the recipient happy.
work and war, to childhood, love
Year 9 pupils are matched with an and compassion. Real words of
alumnae who attended Croydon real women, in their own intimate
“Brilliant project, thanks for
High during the 40s, 50s, and 60s. language. Rosemary Lindsay
including me!”
They research and consider what (Gough), 1957, sent a print of a
similarities and differences there “I do applaud this scheme you have painting the school commissioned
would be between school life then cleverly devised!” her to paint of the former Croydon
and now. High buildings in Wellesley Road
“There is something really delightful after they were demolished. ‘It
Just before the Easter break, girls
when a letter arrives in 2021 written was not easy’, she writes. ‘I had to
wrote letters full of information
with a pen, especially a fountain pen.” collect photos and drawings from
about themselves, including plenty
staff and old girls and piece them
of questions for their recipient. “I wanted to say how much all together.’ Some of you may
They waited patiently for their I enjoyed being included in the recognise this marvellous painting;
replies with great anticipation and letter-writing scheme. My only problem it is displayed in the Drama and Arts
were not disappointed when they was how not to write a book!” corridor.
opened their Ivy Letters revealing
fascinating information about Thank you to all who have taken part
changes in school life over the years, notably school dinners! in this project. We will continue over the next few years until all
Stories of life during WWII, some sad, some happy, some funny! alumnae from the 40s, 50s, and 60s have received an Ivy Letter.
We have received 55 letters, some from as far as Germany, Spain We are, after all, one big family!
and Barbados. You can imagine the valuable experience Year 9
have enjoyed through participating in this project and the sheer
joy they have spread across the alumnae network.
14I am going to be an obstetrician.
And so it was. I still have in my possession
the navy jumper with the
Now trying my very best to use my skills as a gynaecologist and an
V-neck trim of green and
advocate for women to reach their full potential and not be held
white, which I wore when
back by reproductive health issues, I believe it is my duty to raise
at Croydon High School,
the profile of this great organisation, to which I and many others
so very many years ago.
owe so much.
It was the GPDST then;
the Girl’s Public Day It was a source of amazement to me that I became Head Girl.
School Trust. I went there It was the first time that the post was elected by the fifth form
because I passed the 11+ upwards with a weighted voting system. Whilst in Miss Cameron’s
exam, gaining a free place. office one day I was told that it was traditional for the Head Girl
My life was transformed to apply for a travel scholarship. Goodness, thought I. I spoke with
because of this opportunity, and I am forever grateful. Miss Gregory, one of the biology teachers and she said I should
go to Tanzania to work with Richard Evans, who had been to the
For 2 years I would walk a mile and a half to the bus stop, whether
school recently to speak about his work in East
sunny or snowy, dark or light, and get the bus into
Africa.
West Croydon, and then it was my good fortune
that the school moved to newly built premises in ‘Did you go to the talk?’
Selsdon; literally just down my road, so I could I most certainly had not, as I would have been
walk to school from then on. My mother worked far too busy riding horses at the local Selsdon
in the local Post Office and my father was in Park stables where I worked after school and at
construction, and all they really wanted was to weekends. I wrote to Richard and applied for the
educate and encourage their children; my two scholarship and sure enough, Miss Cameron told
older brothers and me. Science was unusually me I had been successful with my application.
strong at Croydon High. The headmistress was a
formidable bird-like woman called Elsa Cameron. Oh my goodness, I thought....I shall have to go!!!
She taught chemistry to the younger girls and I So really somewhat ahead of my time, and with
well remember being captivated by science from the start. I had extremely brave parents, I set off for Mwanza in Tanzania, all on
no concept of being bright, and in fact I was rather cheeky and a my own, and spent 3 months there, arriving home the day before I
bit naughty, but I always did the work that was asked for and was was due to go to Cambridge. I sent a telegram to tell my parents I
amazed to be told by Miss Cameron that rather than be a nurse, had arrived and wrote an aerogramme once a week. I took polaroid
as was my intention, I should be a doctor. Goodness knows how photos.
on earth I went to Cambridge, but I did, and I can see, looking
During the day I would work in the physio department with
through the very well
children recovering from polio, or in village clinics weighing and
produced booklet that
vaccinating children. But at night I would go into the hospital with
has subsequently dropped
Richard, who was an obstetrician, and there I saw terrible obstetric
through my door (asking
complications and wondrous things, and so the die was cast. When
for financial support for
I arrived at Medical School and was asked what I was going to be,
assisted places), that
I said,
women who enjoyed
the same extraordinary ‘I am going to be an obstetrician’. And so it was.
education as I did have
Dr Karen Morton 1973
gone on to do an amazing
range of things; creative, Founder and Medical Director at Dr Morton’s – the medical helpline
sporting, STEM-based, – a service which offers immediate access to expert medical advice
literary..... literally the when you need it. It is about medical empowerment – helping people
world was their oyster. to take control of simple medical problems.
15AND IN OTHER NEWS…
London Short Film How lucky I was…
Festival – Rhea
Dillon 2014 wins “Eight of us from Benson School were selected to go for interview
Best UK Short Film at Croydon High, then at its original site in Wellesley Road, all
conducted personally by Miss Adams with another teacher in
Rhea studied at attendance, in my case the equally wonderful Miss Rolfe, and
Central St Martin’s seven of us from Benson secured a place - and so my life-changing
for her Foundation journey began.
year and stayed
there for her degree Croydon High School
in Fashion and was at that time,
Communication. along with all the
Two years ago, Head other GDST schools,
of Art, Liz Smith was privileged to see Rhea’s final degree show a designated Direct
‘The Name I Call Myself’, a video installation in Shoreditch. We Grant School which
were delighted to report in January that Rhea was awarded best meant that a certain
UK Short Film at the London Short Film Festival. In the words of percentage of girls
the judges. “This film is shot with love that one feels emanating were there on 11+
from the screen. A sequence of arresting portraits escalates scholarships with
into an ever-deeper dance of emotion, strength and beauty that their fees paid by
celebrates the power of those on screen. The Name I Call Myself their local authority.
I don’t think I realised Chris’ three daughters Ursula, Louise and
is true visual poetry and love manifest.” Since leaving Croydon Helen all attended Putney High School
High, Rhea has delivered several workshops to current students then what a massive GDST.
and is a regular visitor to our art exhibitions. privilege this was
but certainly my parents could not have afforded the fees. Our
The School of the Ivy teachers were of the highest quality and my first form teacher in
Green I5, was Miss Lloyd. She was also our English teacher and delighted
us one Monday afternoon by reading Beowulf in Anglo Saxon,
Every year we send which had formed part of her English Tripos at Cambridge. How
birthday greetings many schools could offer that, I wonder?
to our more senior
alumnae. This year’s My school career was undistinguished academically but opened
card shared the up all sorts of experiences which I still value today, not the least
school song written of which was classical music with Miss Hunt. I sang in the school
by Headmistress Miss choir and to this day sing in a Choral Society. I became a librarian
Marion Leahy (1902-1924). We were pleased to hear from Sally and helped to reclassify the Junior Library, but perhaps, most
Nicholas (Lancaster) 1953: “Special thanks for this year’s card, importantly, I was allowed to have some ‘work experience’ in The
it was quite touching to think of my mother, Nancy Lancaster Elms, thanks to Miss Adams, helping with the youngest children
(May) b 1911, and her friends, singing happily to that Little girl in and confirming my desire to be a teacher too.
your great new school...”
I was the first person on either side of the family to go on to higher
Gwynedd Morgan education. How lucky I was to be in that nationwide 11+ generation
(Barnaschone) b 1912, the where my parents’ income did not determine whether or not
mother of Prudence Sizeland I could have the very best opportunities. That is why I feel so
(Morgan) 1953, also attended strongly that we who have benefitted should support the bursary
Croydon High under the scheme run by the GDST.”
leadership of Miss Leahy.
Gwynedd and Nancy were one Chris Hogh (Smith) 1958
of the first of the Old Girls’
The Cover Girls of 2017
Groups who met regularly for
many years. Sally and Prue In 2018 we identified some of the girls on the front cover of the
were in Group 5 and still meet 2017 Ivy Link Magazine with the help of Liz Forrai 1976 and Liz’s
Nancy on the left with Nancy and
up regularly with friends from Sally’s school badges, Gwynedd’s former neighbour Jackie Adams 1977 - Susan Gittins (Munns)
schooldays. 100th birthday with Pru on the left. 1977, second from the left, and the girl behind her Clare Chaytow.
16The girl on the right was unidentified until recently when we to get a grant, and did
heard from Clarissa Dann (Wagstaff) 1978 who informed us a three-year Froebel
that she is in fact, one of her very close friends Karen Hussell teaching training course at
(Stockdale) 1978. Streatham College. I then
taught in the junior part
of Croydon High School.”
Helen’s daughter Bridget
also attended Wimbledon
High. We would love to hear from you if Miss Rodd was
your teacher!
A poem by Miss Ashton November 1951
Thanks to Jean Clayton (Etheridge) 1952 for writing to us after
she received last year’s Ivy Link Magazine: “It was all so interesting
and readable and nostalgic. I recognised names in the articles
from old girls about the birthday card and wartime; Ruth Martin
(Poynder) 1951 played in the same tennis team when the GPDST
rally was held at the Queens club.
GDST Talks
The GDST Talks seminars are led by distinguished experts who
share their experience and advice on the pressing issues of the
day. Past events have focused on areas such as strategies for
helping children understand Covid 19 and how to support their
mental health; how to speak to children about racism; and
bringing reassurance when the world feels like a frightening and
unpredictable place.
Ruth back 2nd right, Jean front right.
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y
I t’s not is the emblem
TALKS
I met Miss Adams in the 80s at a very ha
It’s C.H rd to g
drinks party, I was surprised that .S. uess
By hosting the talks online, the GDST reaches more parents and she remembered me. Too much There’s
sure to
And su b
alumnae than ever before from across our wider family. They sport meant that academically rely gu e a rally –
are currently devising an exciting schedule of GDST Talks for I was not strong but maybe It ’s the T e s s you m
rust ust
2021/22, launching this September. being school Netball and W hich Ra
Tennis captain had some Why ca lly? Do you a
n’t sk
Do you remember Miss Rodd? sway. I have a poem written Where’s you use you me?
t r eyes?
Helen Mills (Rodd) 1942 is always glad to hear from us; even
by Miss Ashton, an English Surely, he prize?
teacher. She wrote it to y o u’v e se
Our re
though she is a Wimbledon High alumna Helen also taught in the
support the netball team at putatio en the rose-b
(May it nk owl,
grow!) now?
Croydon High Junior School. “All those in 1949/50 in Upper II
the annual Trust rally. The
P will now be in their seventies – eighties. I taught all subjects The tea
m
To brin takes our bes
Rose bowl was won when
to my form but especially Art to other classes. I went to school
Annette Cairncross g it back t wishe
at Wimbledon High in 1934, to which I travelled all through the Fame r s
bombing from 1939 to 1942 when I joined the WAAF where I
1950 was captain the etain. again,
Whoev
year before me. We er is
became a radio direction finding plotter. We were billeted in the old
didn’t win it a second W e know the winner
airmen’s marriage quarters on the camp and bussed into Romford
time but came In this they’ll play th
tes eir best
to the operations room. Late 1943 I was posted to Oxbridge,
quite close.” We kno t
the headquarters of 11 Group. Here the ops room was, and still w we’ll
We hop se
is, 60 feet underground, reached by 76 concrete steps, no lift, e they’l e good Netba
But no l ll
even for the King, Churchill, Eisenhower, or any of the ‘bigwigs’, ne the win the rose-
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known as ‘scrambled eggs’! After I was demobbed, I managed heer th s
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