I am still enjoying your Nostalgia page very much and I am sure you are jogging the memories of many Watfordians as well as us expatriates.
Recently I received your issues of January 8 and March 5 - not Sure how the mail works sometimes. However, I was most interested in the letter by M Minter-Davis and her recollections of the old Central School.
I was a pupil there in 1936 and certainly there were quite a few strict rules then and there was segregation of the sexes. It was a "no-no" to even talk to one of the boys anywhere near the school grounds.
I recall the domestic science house in the grounds where we leamt to cook, wash and clean and I think that was a favourite day each week for us - children have to learn these things now at home of course, except for a bit of cooking they do at school.
Yes, we all had to learn French and often had an afternoon when we could only speak that language. The deputy head - can't recall her name - was walking back to school after lunch with three others one afternoon and she saw us without our hats and gloves. That was a grave crime so she made us dress properly and then walk in twos back to school with her behind us. This happened outside the old Andrew Forbes, a big draper's shop - remember that?
I recall the green and red school colours and, in fact, I still retain my old hat band, how's that for nostalgia? I too have one of the school photos, about a metre long they were and we were wearing our green dresses with the white square collar and the headmaster was the only male among many girls.
Interesting to read of the many now famous names that had association with Watford and still many like to live in Hertfordshire. Terry Scott was mentioned and I recall him at Watford Fields School. He could just about jump the fence from his house and be at school at the last minute.
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