MEMORIES has received a letter from Julia Eckstein (nee Newton) who lives in Gottingen, Germany.

She told us that while visiting friends and family in Barnsley in July she was shown a "Memories" article published in an earlier edition of the Chronicle including a photograph of Barnsley Girls' High School pupils taken in 1947.

"This interested me very much as I was also at Barnsley Girls' High School. I was just two years younger than the girls shown," said Julia.

After leaving the school, she studied for three years at Roehampton Froebel Educational Institute and then took up teaching.

Julia taught in England for four years before leaving for Montreal (Canada) and Boston (USA) where she taught for two years in each city.

Then, marriage took her to Germany in 1964 and she has lived there ever since, bringing up three children and then teaching English to adults.

Julia has submitted two photographs of Barnsley Girls' High School pupils. The first is of Form 5A taken in 1950 with headmistress, Miss Baldwin, sitting in the centre of the front row. Miss Naismith, a sports teacher, is on her right and Miss Edmonson who taught history, is to her left. Julia can be seen on the back row, extreme left. The second photograph is of the Upper Sixth Form in 1952.

In the past Julia has tried to track down her old friends, but when she visited the school 10 years ago she was told it was the town's Sixth Form College and they had no records of BGHS pupils any more. "It would be really nice to make contact with some of my old friends, particularly Daphne Nicholson, Mollie Buttery, Pat Crow, Shirley Hall, Wendy-Ann Brown, Brenda Morley, Liz Bright or Sylvia Wright," said Julia.

If any of the above named, or anyone else who remembers Julia, wishes to make contact with her again, please email editorial@barnsley-chronicle.co.uk or write to: Kath Parkin, Barnsley Chronicle Editorial Department, 47, Church Street, Barnsley. S70 2AS.