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Girls from Class of 1945 in approx 1943

Juniors girls from the Classes of 1945, 1940 and 1943

1945 Senior A Hockey team

1945 End of 3rd Term Annex Party

School Nursing Staff in 1945

Teachers in 1945

1945 School Prefects

Girls from Class of 1948 in 3rd Form in 1946

1948 Prefects

1948 Tildesley Shield Winning Team

Girls and Josephine (Principal Rev. Lew’s dog) in 1948

1951 girls in the city for lunch in 1948

Sutton Building Science Labs in 1949

1949 Prefects

Wearne Library in Sutton House, 1949

Youngarra, purchased in 1949, renamed Kent House

Class of 1950 girls in 1952

1950 Tennis Team

MLC School – Newington Dance at Petersham Town Hall in 1950

1950 Sports Day

Girls on the Field in 1950

Girls in 1950

Boarders’ Dining room in the 1950s

Junior girls in 1950s

Boarders day out in the late 1950s

Birthday party at Cahills in late 1950s

Sun seeking Boarders in the late 1950s

Miss Simms and Class 6A2 in the 1950s

1950s Easter Bonnets

1950s Swimming Carnival

1950s Speech Day

1950 Sports Day

Miss Fitzpatrick – her daily ritual of removing the rotor from the distributor to prevent the theft of her car

Circular Quay excursion for Junior students in 1951

Class of 1951, Speech Day 1946

Class of 1953, 3rd Form Boarders in 1951

After the All Schools Sports Carnival in 1951

MLC School 6th Form Dance at the Pickwick Club in Dec 1951 – wearing broderie anglaise frocks.

Class of 1951 girls

Excursion in 1951

Great Barrier Reef excursion in 1951

Class of 1951 girls

Miss McMurtree and Miss Meads, Cannonvale, 1951

1951 Prefects

Shakespeare Day, 1951

Grantham Street in the 1950s

Tildesley Tennis team 1951

Australian Women’s Weekly phone of 1951 girls on their way to Great Barrier Reef

Class of 1955 in 1951 at the Sports Carnival

Class of 1956 in 1951 in 6th Class at Abbeythorpe

Boarders’ Choir, ABC Radio recording session in 1952

Class of 1952 on their way to South Molle Island

Class of 1952 at Bowen Airport

1952 Prefects

Junior girls from Class of 1953 and 1955 in 1943 on Burwood Rd

Abbeythorpe playgound in 1943

Class of 1953 boarding TAA plane for flight to South Molle Island

1953 House Prefects

Class of 1955 girls at Cronulla Beach in 1953

Speech Day 1950s Parents on the Principal’s Lawn

Speech Day 1953 Lorraine, Bev and Jill from the Class of 1955

Last day of term in 1953 Girls from the Class of 1955

Our first Olympian, on left Lorraine Crapp (1955) in 1953

School play in 1953

Class of 1955 girls in 1953

Class of 1955 Churunga tunnel ball team in 1953

1956 girls in 1953

1954 Tildesley Tennis team

1954 Tower Wing Boarders

Boarders in 1954 Saturday afternoon fun

1956 girls in 3rd Year, 1954

1969 girls in 4th Class, 1954

1955 Basketball Team

1955 girls at Speech Day in the mid 1940s

1955 girls

1955 5th Year girls on the last day of school

1955 girls with Miss Sutherland

1955 girls at Whyalla Broken Hill excursion

1955 girls Broken Hill excursion

1955 girls at the Whyalla Shipyards Broken Hill excursion

1955 girls at Captain Sturt Monument Broken Hill excursion

1955 Commercial Class

1955 girls

1955 Hockey team

1955 girls at Newport Beach after exams

1955 Prefects

1955 Tildesley Tennis team

1955 girls

1956 girls at their 4th Form Formal in 1955

1956 A Hockey Team

1956 – MLC School wins the All Schools Sports at the Sydney Showground.

1956 Athletics Team

1956 Basketball Team

1956 girls at a 21st Birthday in Sep 1960

1956 girls

Digging for first MLC School Swimming Pool in mid-1950s

Janet Sutherland and Ann Hanson Zoo Excursion in 1956

1956 Teacher – Central Australia excursion

1956 Class 6A2, 29 Oct 1956

Teachers at the 1956 Class 6A party

1956 girls at the 1959 MLC School Ball at the Hotel Australia

Teachers in 1956

Daughters of Old Girls, 1956

1956 students in Hyde Park after final exams

1956 girls at White City

Boarders’ weekend fun, 1956

1956 girls

Miss Sutherland’s Wedding in 1956

1956 Tildesley Tennis team

1956 girls Central Australia

1956 Central Australia

1956 girls at Jeanice King’s house in Nowra

Boarders 1956

Boarders, 1956

1956

1956 March Past

1956

1957 Boarders

1957 girls

Opening of our first pool in 1957

1957 (Boarding) House Prefects

1957

Drama Production 1957

Waiting for a tram in Mosman, 1957

1960 girls at the 2D Christmas Party in 1957

1965 girls in 3rd Grade in 1957

1958 (Boarding) House Prefects

1958 Prefects

1958

Boarders and the gramophone, 1958

Form 3D, 1958

1958 5th Form girls Tasmania excursion

1958 Geography class

1958 Boarders

1958 Speech Night Town Hall

1958 Boarders

Staff, 1958

1958 Boarders

1960 girls at the 1958 Ball, Strathfield Town Hall

1962 girls, Class 1A in 1958 All Schools Sports Day

1959 (Boarding) House Prefects

1959 Prefects

Boarders in 1959

4th Form girls (4C) in 1959

1959 Athletics Team

1960 Athletics Team All School Sports winners

1960

English Class with Miss Sims, 1960

1960 girls in approx 1948 (Nursery) ‘playing horsies’ on the Sports Field

1960 Hockey team

1960 Prefects

Abbeythorpe, 1960

1960 Athletics Team

1960

1965 girls at Miss Sims’ Christmas Party in 1961

1965 girls at the old pool in 1960

Top of Uluru, 1960

Rungutjirpa (Simpsons Gap), 1960

1961 Athletics Team

Port Douglas, 1961

Magnetic Island, 1961

5th Year 6A2, 1961

5th Year 6A1, 1961

1961

1961 Senior Prefects

Staff, 1961

1964 girls in 2nd Form (2E), 1961

1961 Athletics Carnival in Burwood Park

1965 girls in 1st Form (1D), 1961

Boarders, 1961

1965 girls in 1st Form (1B), 1961

1967 girls in Primary 6A, 1961

1962 Biology Honours Excursion, Ku-ring-gai Chase

1962 (Boarding) House Officers

1962 Boarders: Patricia, Jennifer and Maree

1965 girls, Denise, Sue and Joy in 1962

1951 Junior School students on an excursion, Circular Quay

1963 girls, Margaret and Wendy, on a School excursion

Mother and Daughter Garden Party in 1963

1963 Prefects

1963 Staff

3rd Form girls in the Boarder’s Dormitory, 1963

3rd Form girls Sports Day, 1963

2nd Form girls Taronga Zoo, 1963

1963 Athletics Team

1963 Swimming Team

1969 girls in 1964 (1E)

1964 girls at Sandra’s party in the late 1950s

1964 Class 5B

1964 Tildesley Shield winning team

1968 girls in 1964 (2E)

1964 (Boarding) House Prefects

1964 Prefects

Teaching Staff, 1964

1965 girls in 4A, 1964

1965 4D Sports Team in 1964

1965 girls at a 1964 Biology excursion

1965 girls – Business College Course, 1964

1967 girls, Rock Platform excursion in 1964

1965 5A girls

1965 girls with Miss Tyson

1965 5th Form Formal

1965 girls in 1D, 1961

1965 Muckup Day

1965 girls at the 1967 MLC School Ball

1965 girls Muckup Day Boarders’ breakfast

1965 Boarders

1965 Boarders Hair wash Saturday

1965 Business College Course

1965

1965 Boarders

1965

1965 5B

1965 5C

1965 5D

1965 Muckup Day

1965 Boarders, Elizabeth, Sue and Kerry

1965 Boarding House Captain, Ellen

1965 Excursion

1965

1965 girls Janice and Margaret celebrate the end of exams

1965 girls in Kent House in 3A

1965 girls at the Business College house

1965 Muckup Day Kerry planting flag at the top of the Tower Wing

1965 girls Margaret and Margaret

1965 French Class

1965 Muckup Day

1965 Boarders Muckup Day

1965 Boarders Louise and Sharn on Muckup Day

Senior A Hockey 1965

1965 Boarders Sports Day

Sue Crablin, American Exchange Student in 1965

Fashion parade in Potts Hall on Parents’ Visiting Day 1965

Parents’ Visiting Day 1965

1965 Tildesley Tennis team

Commercial School typing class, 1966

1967 girls posting a letter from the top of Kosciuszko, 1966

New Science Labs, 1966

Cooking class Wade House, 1966

Junior girls playing shops in 1966

Sewing class, 1966

Wearne Library in Sutton House, 1966

1967 girls Kosciuszko excursion, 1966

5th Year 1966

1967 girls Sports Day 1966

1968 girls, Class 4A 1966

1969 girls 3A 1966

1970 girls 2E 1966

1971 girls 1E 1966

1970 girls 2C 1966

1967 girls 4C 1965

1967

1967 girls Basketball team 1966

1967 Boarders

1967 Boarders at Sports Day

1967 Boarders

1967

1967 Netball

1967 Science lab lesson

1967

New Kent House in 1967

1967 Prefects

1967 6th Year

1967

1968 Prefects

1968 House Officers

Boarders’ Dining Room in 1968

1968 Basketball

1968 6th Form

1968 Boarders

1968

1968 Science Lab Demo

1970 girls in 4E 1968

1971 girls 3rd Year girls studying for a Geography test in 1968

1971 girls 4C 1968

1969

1969 production ‘She Stoops To Conquer’

1970 girls in 5th Form 1969

1971 girls in 1969 on Biology excursion to Harbord with Miss Forman

1970 Debutantes

1970 girls on Geography excursion, NZ

1970 girls on way to Science excursion

Muckup day 1970

1971 girls in 5th Form in 1970

1970 Prefects

1970 girls before HSC English exam

1970 Boarders Sports Day

1970 Boarders

1970

1970 Muckup Day

1970

1971 6th Form Boarders

1971 girls

Whole School in 1971

Miss Whitley and girls in 1971

1971 girls farewelling Angela Catterns in 1970

Miss Whitley and 1971 girls

1971 Prefects read for the play for Back To College Day

1972 6th Form

1972 Tildesley team

1972 Hockey team

1973 6th Form Boarders

1973 6th Form

1973 House Officers

1973 Prefects

1973 Muckup Day

1973 Teachers

1974 cohort in 1st Form 1969 with Mrs Fulcher

Class of 1974

1974 cohort in 4th Form 1972 with Mrs Lambert

1974 cohort in 5th Form 1973

1974 girls in 1973

1974 cohort,1965 3rd class

1974 cohort, 1966 4th class

1974 cohort, 1967 5th Class

1974 Leawarra girls in 1973

1974 girls in 1973

1974 girls at the canteen

1974 girls at the 1972 Year10 Dinner Dance

1974 Boarder ‘escaping’

1974 Boarders ‘Midnight Feast’

1974 Boarders

Boarders in 1974

1974 House Officers

1974 Prefects

1974 Senior Boarders Dormitory

1974 girls at Sports Day 1968

1974 Tildesley Shield team

1974 Cricket team

1975 girls photographed by Max Dupain in 1971

Two of these 1975 girls, in 1996

Class of 1975 in Form 1C 1970

Class of 1975 in Form 2DE 1971

Class of 1975 in Form 3D 1972

Class of 1975 in Form 4L 1973

Class of 1975

Class of 1975, 5th Form, 1974

1975 Audio Lab in the Library

1975 Tuck Shop

1975 Classroom

1975 students in the corridor

The view from Sutton House looking south towards Tower Wing in 1975

Class of 1975

Class of 1975 6th Form Boarders

Class of 1975 House Prefects