ABSTRACT
When Marjorie was eleven and I nearly eight we were transferred to Pontefract and District Girls’ High School. It had been opened shortly after the war to provide secondary education for girls, and at the laying of the foundation stone County Councillor E. Talbot, chairman of the West Riding Higher Education Sub-Committee pontificated on what this should involve. The aim of girls’ schools, he told an appreciative audience, should be ‘the production of womanliness’.
