GIRLS at Oxford’s Central School didn’t need boys to make a success of their stage production.

They filled all the roles, both male and female, when they performed The Rebel Maid in July 1950.

Pamela Hughes, of Sterling Road, Kidlington, has sent in this picture of her and fellow members of the cast.

Then Pamela Venn, she is in the middle in the white dress, taking the part of Abigail, maid to the Rebel Maid, Lady Mary Trefusis.

She was prompted to write in after seeing Jean Dudley’s three pictures of the school sports day in 1948 (Memory Lane, February 23).

Mrs Dudley, whose maiden name was Faulder, found the pictures and a programme for The Rebel Maid in an old Players’ cigarette tin.

Mrs Hughes tells me: “The article and pictures brought back many memories. The Rebel Maid was great fun.”

The production ran for two nights at the Wesley Memorial Church hall, just yards from the school in New Inn Hall Street.

The main players were Jean Barnard, Pauline Cleaver, Marie Seger, Irene Lenthall, Joan Walker, Jill Sturges, Iris Cox, Greta Payne, Jean Manins, Patricia Bond, Dorothy Adams, Pamela Venn and Daphne Bell.

Other pupils formed the chorus.

The show was produced by Miss AW Haigh and Miss MA Babington, and the accompanist was Christine Waple.

Apart from herself, Mrs Hughes can identify only one of the actresses in the picture above – Jill Sturges, fourth from the left.

But we are sure readers will be able to name others.

The Rebel Maid is a romantic light opera written by Gerald Dodson and Alexander Thompson, with music by Montague Phillips.

Lady Mary finds herself with two suitors after becoming involved in a plot to help Prince William of Orange rob James II of the English throne.

Keep your memories of the school rolling in.