Category Archives: Old Girls ‘In Memoriam’
Dr Ruth Kennedy 1956 – 2017 In Memoriam
DOB 23.12.56 – Died 24.4.2017. Pupil at MTGS 1968-75 Ruth was one of the girls who came to school on the bus from Ormskirk. She was and remained great friends with Sara and Alison Beazley who travelled on the bus too.
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Sheila Clayton MTGS 1945 – 1952 In Memoriam
Sheila was born in Scarborough with extended family living near her. Her father, who had been in the Merchant Navy, gained employment with a firm who became part of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company. The family moved to Crosby,
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Nora Margaret Orritt (nee Freeman) in Memoriam
Died peacefully, aged 91 – 14th March 2017 Born in December 1925 in Myers Road, Crosby – Nora was the youngest of seven siblings, five of whom attended Merchant Taylors’ Schools. Her father, Commander CP Freeman attended Merchant Taylors’ Schools
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Christine Parr (1932-2015), In Memoriam
An obituary is a difficult task; writing one for a much admired colleague and later much loved friend, is a mountain to climb. Chris (née Marsden) graduated from Girton College Cambridge in 1954 with a double first in Natural Sciences.
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Niccola (Niccy) Downey 1962-71 In Memoriam
27/3/53 to 20/8/2015 Niccola ( I’m sure you ALL know it’s spelt with TWO C’s) Downey was born Niccola Elizabeth Yvonne Greaves, to doting parents, Bruce and Joyce on 27 March 1953, three years and a day after her sister
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Beti Lloyd-Jones – Old Girl (1947-1951)
Beti joined MTGS in January 1947 into Lower IV from Streatham House and she left at Easter 1951 in Lower VI to go into a welfare and management post at Littlewoods. However her main passion in life was singing, and she was for many
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Yvonne Pugh nee Forshaw – Old Girl (1945-1952)
Yvonne Pugh née Forshaw MTGS 1945-52 Died 8th June 2014 Obituary On the 29th August 1933, the stork delivered a bonny bouncing baby to the Crosby home of Phyllis and Charles Forshaw. She was their third child and a sister to Joyce
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Ruth Mary (Molly) Badcock – Old Girl (1931-1940)
Ruth Mary Badcock, known as Molly, left Merchant Taylors’ Girls School in 1940 and went on to study Zoology at Liverpool University, gaining a First Class Degree. Molly then did Postgraduate research at Liverpool which led to her M.Sc. She
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Rachel Ashton – Old Girl (1988-1995)
Rachel Ashton – Old Girl (1988-1995) I can remember now the feeling of trepidation, age 11, walking into MTGS on my first morning at ‘The Big School’, wondering who I would meet and if I’d make friends. I needn’t have worried,
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