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All these gaily decorated Christmas cakes will be adorning tables in the homes of pupils of Hartland All-age School this year.

20.12.1957 Family Christmas cakes

The cakes were made by girls between the ages of 11-plus and 14 as part of their domestic science and cookery training under their teacher Miss Jill Hopkins. Each year the girls make Christmas cakes which are the envy of the rest of the school.
In the above picture, left to right, back row are: Jane Hooper, Joyce Goaman, Susan Dayman, Nancy Beer, Heather Dayman, Joyce Colwill, Janet Heart, Joyce Pomeroy, Rosemary Vanstone.
Front row: Pauline O’Connell, Rosamund Heard, Brenda Heard, Miss J Hopkins, Judith Fanson, Dorothy Pengilly, Greta Gifford, Margory Heard.

Gazette article dated 20 December 1957

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