Description: Pam Vincent, the archivist of the Old Girls Association of Wimbledon County School for Girls, tells the story of the school from its origins in 1905 out of the Battersea Pupil Teachers Centre at Wimbledon Technical Centre until its amalgamation with Rickards Lodge in the July of 1969. Her narration is supported with archival photographs of the school buildings, school gardens, classrooms and by group portraits of staff and of pupils posed in their uniforms, grouped as sports teams, and in the theatrical costumes of their breaking up concerts. James Russell photographers of Wimbledon took many of the images, after being commissioned to take regular images of school pupils. One odd portrait from 1939 shows pupils lined up in gas masks standing on the school steps. Photographs of the school include records of the original school building on Gladstone Road and the new school building on Merton Hall Road opened in 1924. Developments on the Merton Hall Road site are shown with several photographs of the school assembly hall, gymnasium, classrooms, the playing fields, and wartime bomb shelters.