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Good question Ron..Sister Francis at st Josephs would have had kittens if we had worn anything like that..mind you she had kittens over the slightest thing.

Maureen and Ron. I went to the Convent. They would have erched em up on the corner of Powell St.

In today's pc world you'd probably get arrested for taking this photo without permission.

How do you know the photographer didn't have the girls permission to take the photograph????????????????????????

MarieM
Just what we did when we got clear of the gates at WGHS!
Also rolled up the sleeves of our blouses, took off the silly hats , and called in for a penny loaf at the bottom of the hill.. eating in the street.. another crime we were punished for!!! Afraid to say it happened to me on a few occasions as one of the teachers lived by me and caught the same bus home.

I don't think he asked for permission to take a snap of those convent schoolgirls Ron. Things were simpler back then we weren't controlled by New Labour's PC Machine.

RON... wind your neck in Bro. Jim was just making a very valid observation... it was perfectly okay for a person to point a camera at school children in those days. Jims comments seem to be a comment on our modern times when everything is viewed as if something nasty is going on, when in fact all is happening is someone is taking a photograph of people going about their lives.

In 30 years time, you will not see such brilliant photographs of kids coming home from school in 2012... simply because it is now no longer PC to take them!

It is an excellent photograph because it is natural.

Great pic it takes me back in time ,I went to the convent from 1969-74 we crossed the road at that point to go to the sweet shop opposite.

I was there 1970 - 73. Guilty as charged re the skirt length - we just used to turn the waistband over several times. Some of us used baskets instead of satchels for books, not just used for domestic science days.

Oooh! That's Saint John's church in the background. Many a wet break spent in there, lighting candles and saying prayers. Much better than getting cold and wet.

Thats my mum at the front. I love this picture.