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Aberdare Intermediate Schools 1896 - 1946

This booklet contains a history of the school to 1946 written by the first Headmaster Mr W. Jenkyn Thomas. The school was co-educational until 1913 when the separate Girls’ School was founded and the book includes a few pictures and a short account of the history of the Girls’ School written by the first headmistress Miss M. S. Cook.
The booklet hasn’t preserved very well (through no fault of the owner), and some of the photos proved especially difficult to scan, but the content is still a treasure worth preserving.

This copy was sent to us by Bob Williams who was at the school from 1946 to 1951 when his family emigrated to Australia.
He still lives there, near Melbourne, having retired from a teaching career.

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p1 Front Cover p2 page 2
Edmund Stonelake
Chairman of Governors		 p3 page 3
Introduction		 p4 page 4
Sketch of School		 p5 page 5
A Note on the Early Days
by W. Jenkyn Thomas
(pages 5 to 10)
p6 page 6
An early picnic		 p7 page 7 p8 page 8
Headmaster & Staff
1913 - 1914		 p9 page 9 p10 page 10
Headmaster & Staff
1939
p11 page 11
1896 - 1946
(pages 11 to 27)		 p12 page 12
Sports Day
1911		 p13 page 13 p14 page 14
Sports Day
1938		 p15 page 15
p16 page 16
A Mid-summer night's
Dream -1905		 p17 page 17 p18 page 18
Annual Concert
May 1943		 p19 page 19
The Governors		 p20 page 20
First XI 1905 - 1906
p21 page 21
Roll of Honour		 p22 page 22
First XV 1945-46		 p23 page 23
Outstanding Scholarships		 p24 page 24
Girls’ Intermediate
School		 p25 page 25
Outstanding Academic
Distinctions
p26 page 26
Miss M.S. Cook, MA
in her study at Plasdraw		 p27 page 27
Outstanding
Sportsmen
p28 page 28
Dr. D.L. Graham
Headmistress		 p29 page 29
Girls’ County School
(pages 29 - 32)		 p30 page 30
The School for Scandal
1944
p31 page 31 p32 page 32
Headmistress & Staff
1931		 bc Back Cover

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