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    Maryvale Convent School (st Mary's College, Old Oscott)

    I've dug out three photographs of Maryvale. The class photograph is pre WW1 I think. The 'official' photo looks painfully staged - one can almost hear the presiding nun telling the girls to keep still. Thank you, Aileen, for mentioning the Maypole dancing - that explains the goings-on in the...
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    Maryvale Convent School (st Mary's College, Old Oscott)

    Thanks Vivienne. Sorry if it takes me a while to get round to responding - I'm not yet quite geared up to the forum business.
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    The President Lincoln, 123 Longmore street

    Just to put the record straight (obsessive? Moi?) the servant is Catherine Lavinia Bott, daughter of a respectable glass engraver; a complex woman who liked pubs and barmen rather more than was good for her.
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    Maryvale Convent School (st Mary's College, Old Oscott)

    Bernard, Bit late in the day to be joining this post but the girl to whom you refer was Agnes Rowlands and she did indeed become mother superior: her name within the Order was Sister Mary Berchmans.
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