Girls Central with the legendary Miss Hewitt

SHEILA Osborn (nee Pacey), sent in this school photograph from 1948.
They are pupils at the Girls Central School, which was then off Castlegate (down a footpath opposite Finkin Street), now a nursery for Grantham College.
 Miss Nina Hewitt,  had recently taken over from the school’s first headteacher Miss Jabbet.
The girls are, from left, back row – Lilian Smart, Shirley Towning, Evelyne Balderson, Sheila Pacey, Pearl Diment, Pat Calvert, Pat Porter, Jackie Adams, Betty Burnett, Hazel ? and Dorothy Atkinson; second row – Janet Wright, Doreen Burke, Janet Smith, ?, Margaret Hand, Ann Nicholls, Sheila Ellis, Kathleen Warrener, Rosanne Kirton, Rosalind Fisby and Janet DeBank; third row – Brenda Dixon, Janet Wright, Joyce Cantrell, Iris Carman, Miss Johnson, Miss Hewitt, Mrs Burke, Elaine Killingsworth, Shirley Henson and Pauline Ballaam; front row – Brenda Bennett, Meryl Taylor, Rosemary Warner, ?, Ann Taylor, and ?.