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Farnborough Grammar School

Prospect Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire

Telephone : Farnborough 539
Cove Junior School - Bobby’s Dream, 1953 

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This photograph kindly provided by Elsie Pilbeam is of the assembled cast of ‘Bobby’s Dream’ which is believed to have been part of the Coronation celebrations. Elsie and her sister Mavis have also provided the identifications.
Cove Junior Bobby's Dream
Back Row : Diana Partridge, unidentified, unidentified, David Trotman (Cavalier man), Vernon Tippins (King Charles I), Michael Clear (Roundhead man), Elsie Pilbeam (Cavalier girl in ringlets), Elizabeth Roberts (vicar’s daughter in real life), Eileen Thomas.

Row 3 : Susan Yates, Catherine Taylor, David, Graham Stevens or maybe Frieze-Green (playing D.Ream Esquire), Pauline Harris, Glyn Roberts, Diana Bedford, unidentified, Ann Stevens, Nicola Lyons (standing in crinoline).

Row 2 : Norma Pratt, Diana Garner (Miss Godard’s niece?), Ann Baker, Elizabeth Day, Mrs. Phyllis Smith (Producer), Julie Fairchild, Ann Strain, unidentified, unidentified.

Front Row: Sylvia Cliff (Hairdresser’s daughter from Victoria Road, unidentified, Juliet Smallbones.

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