| Description | Annotated photo album including snapshots of College, events, friends (first names only given) and photos labelled ‘Last morning July 1st 1933’, ‘Sleeping Out ‘32’, ‘Prin with Ruskin’s Godson on May Day ‘32’, ‘The Staff 1933’ [all with nicknames given].
Full names mentioned: Stella Hope, Gladys Barber, Kath Bjorck, Eileen Fowler, Linda Evans, Barbara Davis, Bunty King, Molly Thompson, Hilda Bath. Midge Milne, Sheila Neale, Nora Vickers, Ivy Spencer, Mary Gibson.
Plus copy of testimonial; Reading Guild pendant.
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| Administrative History | Nora taught at a primary school after leaving Whitelands and continued teaching until her marriage in 1937 to George Covington, a fellow teacher. During WWII she and George, and their daughter Mary, born 1940, were evacuated with a party of boys from George’s school to Yeoford in Devon. They remained billeted on a dairy farm for the duration of the war. On their return to Mitcham George became head teacher of a junior school in Kingston, Surrey, but died in 1964 aged 58. Nora returned to teaching in a primary school in Mitcham until her retirement in 1975. |