but unfortunately were then defeated. Official team: Pamela Saville, Lynn Alexander Capt, Hazel South, Lorraine Jackson, Linda Ingle, Linda Rickets, Marilyn Elster, Jennifer Holt, Sheila Johnson, Madeline Jones, and Stella Dixon. In 1973 the Second XI Hockey Team won the Ealing Hockey League Trophy. A Cross-Country Club was formed in 1966 and under the guidance of Mr Cassingham and Mr Hall a number started training. In a year the Club was ready to enter a team for the Ealing Championship and it won a trophy as it tied for first place with Cardinal Wiseman. The Club went on to produce a boy who became the First Year Ealing Schools Cross Country Champion and another was joint winner of the Senior Championship. The summer of 1973 was a particularly successful one for athletics the boys won the aggregate trophy in the Ealing Schools Athletics Championship and the girls, the Senior Girls Trophy. Competition was not confined to the sports fields but also included the very popular 'Top of the Form' Competitions with other grammar schools. Northolt and the Horrors of Housework! The 1967 edition of Prospice carried two articles by younger pupils in the school which seemed worth quoting. The first gives some insight into the life of pupils at home and will be particularly appreciated by those of us who are steeped in Equal Opportunities policies and Awareness of Gender Issues or by those who are used to modern kitchens and appliances. The other describes the rapid growth of Northolt at the time: Second Year Gillian Sidebottom wasn't very happy with the lot of women: The main horror of housework is that it never stays done. Yon have to do it over and over again. I have to clear the table and do the washing up every day. Why do women stay at home and do the housework? In Sweden boys do domestic science as well as girls, so they can cope when they leave school and live by themselves. Another 'horror in most houses is that equipment is badly designed with lots of corners and cracks and is therefore hard to clean and dust. Very few houses are planned in one go, and then things are added which are not taken into account and this involves more cleaning. The spaces in between gas stoves, dryers, washing machines are dust traps; near the cooker you get grease as well. Heavy vacuum cleaners are also a problem, especially when you are cleaning the stairs. The cable will not usually reach up the stairs very far, so you have to carry it. There are some solutions to this problem i.e. throwaway crockery, robot cleaners or a maid (if you can afford one). When I get married my husband will stay at home and do the housework while I go to work! But Third Year Sally Ingold was quite content living in Northolt Northolt is in the suburbs of London and is therefore a good place to live. The town and good shopping centres are easy to reach and the country is also very near. As you enter Northolt you will see an old thatched roof Pub and an old Church. This church is at least 800 years old. Queen Victoria planted the oak tree which stands in the foreground of the church. I was christened in this church which is called St Mary's. When I first remember living there, there was an old racecourse where they used to race ponies, now it is alarge housing estate where all the roads are named after racecourses. Today, Northolt is very much modernised with a new swimming pool and a new Youth Club which is still being built. There is also a station and a library. The old village green still remains and there is a large clock tower on it. Opposite the green is a very large new Post Office and on the opposite side the old village shops still remain and are in daily use. At one end of the green where the old library was, which is now maisonettes, there is a small stream. It flows under the road and. when it reappears, it is running alongside the green in front of the church. This is a popular place for people to sit by the stream in the Summer evenings. There is also a very nice garden which is kept for elderly people to sit and rest. Prospice: An Obituary The March '73 Newsletter of the Old Scholars Association announced: It is with regret that we record the death of the School magazine Prospice which has gone the way of many magazines and newspapers under the onslaught of rising costs. Mr Lockhart is to he congratulated on keeping it alive for as long as he did. However, the editorial hive of room 7 has not entirely closed down, for last month the underground presses rolled and out came News from Greenford which, though not in the same class as Prospice, is designed to let Greenford know just what has been going on in Greenford. News from Greenford carried its own obituary to Prospice: Whatever happened to Prospice the school magazine? Now it can be told! Mounting costs were the real reason for the disappearance of Prospice the magazine you loved to display on your coffee tables! Not even covers designed by Jane Hord could save us! At a meeting attended by the Editor (J. H. K.Lockhart). the Business Manager (J. H. K. Lockhart), the Contributions Editor (J. H. K. Lockhart and others) it was unanimously decided to wind up the magazine. A crisis of reorganisation followed: how many heads would roll? One faction led by the Sports Secretary (J. H. K.Lockhart) wanted to end it all. Another group, led by the School Societies Correspondent (J. H. K. Lockhart) wanted to keep the magazine going. Finally the office boy (J. H. K. Lockhart always a bright lad!) came up with the idea of a news-sheet, highly coloured, of course. It was decided to avoid further friction that all jobs would be combined in one and that that office would be modestly assumed by J. H. K. Lockhart. 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