Farnworth Grammar School

LUMEN, Easter Term 1953

The magazine was contributed by Winifred Fielding

This edition marks the departure of several staff members and the arrival of new ones, together with the marriages of Miss Lowe — Mrs. Bamblin as she became — and Mr. Wotton. It also records the theft of the school's silverware, but contains little else of note; even the usual list of appointments, births, marriages, etc. failed to make an appearance.

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Editorial

Football Report

Netball report

Finally...

...a contribution from an anonymous would-be gossip columnist, included here because I think it so sad to realise that one of its reported howlers, totally innocuous in 1953, could land the writer in very hot water indeed in 2004. There's no prize for spotting which one...