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Farnborough Grammar School

Prospect Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire

Telephone : Farnborough 539
Wales - Easter 1959 

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Polish your shoes, have breakfast , go out and get your shoes very muddy again and come home to play cards, bridge being the game of choice; and then to bed.
Robert Croucher polishes his shoes before getting them covered in Welsh mud. John Attree closely attended by a waitress serving cornflakes.
One of the card players is a girl. I have no recollection of any girls on the trip although other ‘Welsh’ photographs suggest that one joined the hike over the Beacons. Maybe both were Tregoyd staff members. In the whole of my time at Farnborough Grammar there was only one female pupil and she came from the local convent school to join us with Gobo Mills for Applied Maths, the convent not offering a suitable course.

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