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Barbara Abbott (nee Hopkins)

I am a WGGS ‘Old Girl’ (left in 1973 – so VERY old!). My favourite place at school was the library, which was fairly newly renovated when I joined in 1967. After years of working in roles such as PA/Secretary/various marketing areas, for which my Lower Sixth Secretarial training gave me a very good grounding to begin with and my whole WGGS experience taught me the importance of discretion, tact and diplomacy, I have at last become a School Librarian – which is something I contemplated from the day I walked into the WGGS library all those years ago! Could you please ‘post’ a picture of the library as it is now as I would love to see whether it has changed at all

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Lady’s Close House

Having looked carefully at the capital development needs of the school and the level of funding currently available to us, we now intend to focus our energy on restoring Lady's Close House.

This is the most historic building on the school site and is central to every girl's development at WGGS. Lady's Close is the Y7 base, where pupils have their own space and Form Rooms. The girls have special affection for the building because it represents the start of their careers at WGGS. The grand old house is also the home of the English Department.

The building is well over 100 years old and is in dire need of modernisation and refurbishment. We have ambitious plans to recapture the splendour and elegance of its history, while incorporating the technology and physical improvements that will bring Lady's Close House into the 21st century in appropriate WGGS style.

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