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Tweets from the Cheltenham Ladies' College Archive: curating more than 165 years of educating girls.

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We would like to wish all of our CLC community a happy and healthy Christmas and New Year!✨

Pictured is a lovely, festive photo of College in the snow in 1917❄️

#ChristmasCountdown #ChristmasDay #NewYear

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Happy Christmas Eve!🎄

College always looks beautiful in the snow❄️Pictured is the Quad, College Gardens and West Wing in 1940.

#ChristmasEve #Christmas

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Tonight is the highly anticipated annual CLC Christmas Concert!🎶

In celebration, we're looking back at these Christmas Concert photos from 10 years ago.

#ChristmasConcert #Concert #Music #ThrowbackThursday #Christmas

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At the weekend, College gathered for a #Remembrance Service to remember those who have died in conflict. The service included hymns, anthems, readings, and prayers led by Rev Rosie Amess.
Today, College observed a two minute silence at 11.00am during an Act of Remembrance.

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To mark #Halloween, we thought we’d share some #1980s Halloween party throwbacks.
Dressing up for various occasions throughout the academic year has always been loved by students.
#Party #ThrowbackThursday #TBT #Costume

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Cambray House (pictured in 1905) became a reduced-price #boarding house, to increase access to education for more families. It had a ‘properly built Swedish gymnasium’ (pictured in 1890), a facility not common in girls’ schools at the time. #Archive

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The name Cambray has been associated with College from the beginning. When CLC first opened in 1854, it was based in Cambray House, a #Georgian building in Cheltenham town centre. The number of pupils went from 82 to over 200, so 20 years later, College was moved to a new site.

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Here is a great photo of the Princess Hall from the 1920s.

The room was filled to the rafters with no spare seat in sight!

#SchoolArchive #Archive #Community #1920s

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Alongside championing and paving the way for change for women in #STEM, Miss Beale was a firm believer in teaching European languages. Presumably, Eliza would have received much encouragement to develop her fluency in #German.

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Eliza Dunbar was a House Surgeon at Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children. She studied at CLC as a day pupil from August 1856 to June 1861.

#Surgeon #womeninscience #TBT #ElizaDunbar

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Eliza studied #medicine at #London, #Zurich and #Vienna before becoming House Surgeon and she would have been at College at the time when #DorotheaBeale was Principal.

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College was delighted to open our doors on Saturday for #HeritageOpenDays 2024 🤩
Students dressed up as characters from the #MurderMostUnladylike series by alumnae Robin Stevens. CLC inspired Robin's "Deepdean School" and visitors toured many places which feature in the novels.

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We're looking forward to welcoming students back to College next week for the start of the Autumn Term. We're wishing all new pupils an enjoyable start to CLC.

Here is a lovely photo of students arriving at College in 1914.

#BackToSchool #Education #Archive #AutumnTerm

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We hope all staff and students are enjoying their summer holidays☀️

Here is a great photo of CLC students on an outing in the 1930s.

#Education #Archive #SummerHoliday

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This week on Instagram and Facebook we're celebrating #STEAM.
In light of this, here is a great photo of the 'The New Science Wing' which was featured in the 1905 CLC magazine.
#Science was introduced by Dorothea Beale in the 1860s, despite societal and parental opposition.

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Ahead of the Women's 10km Marathon Swimming tomorrow at the @Olympics, here is a photo of a CLC #swimming lesson in 1950.
Prior to this photo during #WW2, the pool had been boarded over to create extra space for lessons after College buildings were requisitioned.
#Olympics #Sport

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As @TeamGB are playing the Netherlands today in the women's quarter-final #hockey tournament of the @Olympics, we thought we'd share this great photo of the CLC hockey team practicing in 1893!

#Sport #Olympics #Tournament #Archive

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CLC is celebrating its 170th Anniversary this evening with drinks in the College Gardens, just like the garden party on the same grounds in 1953 to celebrate the centenary (pictured).
#170thAnniversary #Celebration #Summer #TBT