Objects of Substance - The Wilkinson Safe

1914, Edith Day, Jean Dollar, Olga Hertzberg and Josephine Bancroft. Olga and Jean were the prize winners for Upper Doubles in 1914 Together, Pauline and Olga wrote the VI Form Notes for the inaugural School Magazine in 1913. The cousins spoke of the duality of their feelings for completing the year, approaching their final year (VIA) with ‘fearful tremors’. They explained they would be overcome with a ‘delicious thrill of anticipation… (being) known as “Varsity girls”, no longer “mere schoolgirls”‘. And as we swiftly reach the end of 2023, these words are all the more meaningful.