While living at Denmark Road Gill attended Elmbridge Road Infant School, where she continued after the family moved to Estcourt Road. In due course she moved to Elmbridge Road Junior, a newly built school on a nearby site. As well as being keen at sports, she was in the school recorder group - she's seen here with the cup won in a local competition. The photo shows the girls in their summer uniform of red-and-white check dresses with white cuffs and collars.
Of the eleven pupils in the picture, Gill can still remember the names of nine. The teacher was Mrs Bolton, the music teacher.
In 1953, while she was at the school, the new queen was crowned. Gill thinks this photo was taken at the school but she isn't in school uniform. Gill remembers watching the coronation at home on television: her father was always keen to buy the latest in technology and he had bought a TV, a tiny screen in a large wooden cabinet, so early in the technology's development that all they could watch for much of the time was the black and white test card.
The Junior School's winter uniform, above, was a grey cardigan, grey pinafore dress and red-and-white check viyella shirt: Gill remembers her uniform as being very smart.
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