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The Gallery – Education – Golden Wonders

Trish Burgess Posted on23/03/201107/04/2016 The gallery 18 Comments

One of my very few sporting successes occurred in 1974 when I was 10. Our netball team from Chapel House Middle School, Newcastle, won the Golden Wonder Winter Tournament in our first season in competitive netball. I played centre position and in the photo I’m far right in the front row.

If you had any doubts that this photo was taken bang slap in the middle of the 1970s, there are a few clues(click on the photo if it’s too small to see):

  • The psychedelic curtains
  • Our teacher’s glorious tank top and blouse combo
  • Teacher’s fabulous shoes, which are so on trend today
  • The netball, with the years 1974-5 written on it!

Looking at the names on the back of the photo we have Sandra, Karen, June, Fiona, Nicola, Louise, Ursula and me, Patricia. I also know that Susan was missing from the picture as she appears in the newspaper cutting I have from that time. The selection of names alone would pinpoint the year fairly accurately.

 The theme for this week’s Gallery is Education. I think there will be some great nostalgic photos so a visit to Sticky Fingers is a must today.

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18 Comments

  1. Deer Baby Reply
    23/03/2011 at 9:18 am

    I'd have picked you out of that line up!

    Loving your teacher's shoes (she looks so young). However the horizontal stripes really do her no favours!

    That photos just screams Seventies! Brilliant.

  2. Sian Mummy-Tips Reply
    23/03/2011 at 9:53 am

    Love it. Especially how high the waist is on everyones shorts. simon Cowell eat your heart out!

  3. Kelloggsville Reply
    23/03/2011 at 10:25 am

    High waists and mid length socks!! Don't you all look clean cut! Did the teacher have a different type of mirror to the rest of us, surely even in the 1970's 'clash with everything' wasn't vogue!

  4. Trish @ Mum's Gone to... Reply
    23/03/2011 at 10:35 am

    Deer Baby, Sian and Kelloggsville – Yes, lovely white socks and all shirts tucked in (apart from one naughty girl who has her shirt hanging out!). As for our coach, the horizontal yellow stripes on that tank top jump out at you from an otherwise perfectly-posed photograph.

  5. libby Reply
    23/03/2011 at 11:01 am

    I picked you out before reading!
    The seventies was my heyday…I want to go back ….may I please?

  6. SAHMlovingit Reply
    23/03/2011 at 11:01 am

    Ah, the good old 70's. This was taken the year I was born though…I like saying that as some of the photos I've seen make me feel old so it's good to pass the 'old' baton onto someone else 😉

    Loving your teachers outfit!

  7. Steve Reply
    23/03/2011 at 12:22 pm

    We had curtains like that in our school. For some reason they make me think of the smell of cabbage. Ah. School dinners.

  8. Trish @ Mum's Gone to... Reply
    23/03/2011 at 3:12 pm

    Libby – feel free to wallow in my 70s nostalgia!

    SAHM – Thanks so much for passing the 'old' baton onto me: I'm so grateful….cow!;-)

    Steve – Oh God, school dinners – cheese pie, tongue and salad, semolina. Will try to think of chocolate pudding and custard instead.

  9. Mari's World Reply
    23/03/2011 at 4:43 pm

    Fabulous photo! Weird that today that kind of print on the curtain is now highly sought after – Orla Keily is it does something very similar??? Should have nicked them on your way out!

  10. Trish @ Mum's Gone to... Reply
    23/03/2011 at 4:46 pm

    Mari's World – you're right, of course, the fashion has come round again. We had similar brown and orange curtains at home at one point and thought we were so trendy.

  11. Funky Wellies Reply
    23/03/2011 at 6:06 pm

    Between the curtains and your teacher's outfit, it is better NOT to enlarge the photo!! ;o)

  12. Trish @ Mum's Gone to... Reply
    23/03/2011 at 6:23 pm

    Funky – haha! Indeed, what on earth was I thinking to suggest it!

  13. Expat mum Reply
    23/03/2011 at 7:28 pm

    Did any of those girls go on to Fenham?

  14. Trish @ Mum's Gone to... Reply
    23/03/2011 at 7:32 pm

    Expat Mum – No, none of them. It wasn't a Catholic school so they would have gone on to Walbottle. I went to Fenham all on my own!

  15. dreamingofbeer Reply
    23/03/2011 at 8:06 pm

    Great photo. I'm sure those curtains were standard issue to schools!

  16. If I Could Escape . . . Reply
    23/03/2011 at 10:18 pm

    That's excellent! Love it!

  17. Sarah Reply
    24/03/2011 at 8:53 am

    I have a similar photo of my netball team. I played centre right, I think… Our sports teacher was Mrs Nelson. In the team there would have been a Tracy, Susan, Deborah, Tina, Jane…

    Seems sooo long ago!

  18. Trish @ Mum's Gone to... Reply
    24/03/2011 at 8:59 am

    Dreaming of beer – I think you may be right: a job lot!

    If I could escape – Thanks!

    Sarah – ah the names are so typical of our era. I've just remembered our teacher was Mrs McGregor. Don't think she had any link to the Victorian Dr McGregor I've been quoting from these past weeks!

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