Three legged race at St George's College Sports Day

Contribution from Pauline Wilcox (Pauline Flanigan)

"Hello,
It is my pleasure to have found your website. I spent many years at St. Charles Borromeo School as a child and attended the Church on Heath Road. I lived on the Hamm Moor Estate on Shakespeare Road and enjoyed some of the coach trips down to the coast in the early fifties late forties.

You mention on your site about St. Georges College Sports days and I have these pictures of myself participating in the running and the three legged races outside the pavilion. Many a cricket game was played there and also our Dads took part in tug-o-war competitions.

We also had fancy dress competitions and the Morris Dancers trained by Mr. & Mrs. Ratcliffe of Tennyson Road performed for the crowds. We also did Maypole Dancing as I remember rehearsing for what seemed like hours to get it just right.

I have lived in Canada since 1959 but did return to Weybridge in the spring of this year for the first time in 35 years and was delighted for the most part, that I could recognize so very much of the place. Much has changed of course, but then that’s life, I guess.

I hope these photos are of some use to you. In the three legged race I am the girl with the boy third from the left and in the running race I am the girl third from the right. My name was Pauline Flanagan but I’m, sorry to say I don’t know the names of anyone else in the photo."

Sincerely, Pauline Wilcox, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, Sept 2008

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