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.
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.
Love it. Especially how high the waist is on everyones shorts. simon Cowell eat your heart out!
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!
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.
I picked you out before reading!
The seventies was my heyday…I want to go back ….may I please?
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 đ
Loving your teachers outfit!
We had curtains like that in our school. For some reason they make me think of the smell of cabbage. Ah. School dinners.
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.
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!
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.
Between the curtains and your teacher's outfit, it is better NOT to enlarge the photo!! ;o)
Funky – haha! Indeed, what on earth was I thinking to suggest it!
Did any of those girls go on to Fenham?
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!
Great photo. I'm sure those curtains were standard issue to schools!
That's excellent! Love it!
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!
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!