The Head Girl
First part of a two part photo-story, from Roué 40 When Daphne Hobbs was appointed Headmistress of Barningham High she immediately encountered something of a problem. For a full twenty-four years prior to her being offered the post, the school — an independent, fee-paying establishment — had been run by two, now retired, spinster sisters. In their wisdom — and not without a little financial pressure, the governors had decided that one woman — providing the person concerned was suitably efficient — would be sufficient to cope with the day-to-day running of the school. So, where there had been two there was now only the one. Of course, Miss Hobbs had done her very best to convince her prospective employers at her interview that she would be able to manage and, indeed, this had proved to be the case… in all but one department. The school’s governors were steadfast believers in the efficaciousness of corporal punishment; Barningham ha...