
In the early days of ‘Bunty’ and ‘Girl’, we were lucky to have them delivered with the newspaper and I only had to make the effort when I wanted to read 'Dandy' and 'Beano' which weren’t thought suitable, so I had to go to the shop to buy them. My favourites were the school stories and the girls' wonderful times at boarding school so I remember ‘The School Friend’ which looking at copies Online now are really well presented but from all points of view ‘not politically correct’. In them was an escape from my basic boring Comprehensive school of everyday things to a wonderland in a mysterious old house or mansion where you could be with a group of pals who had adventures and afternoon tea served to them. Sometimes they dressed up in gowns and masks as’ The Silent Three’ to right a wrong. It was very moralistic with honor for the school and each other. I loved the names Polly Linton and Betty Barton, Cora Grandways was a troublemaker. 'The School Friend' was published by Amalgamated Press as a story paper for girls from 1919 to 1929, renamed The Schoolgirl and continued to1940, revived as a comic in 1950 as a mix of comic strips and prose stories published by AP, then Fleetwood and IPC .In 1965 it merged into ‘ June and Schoolfriend’ edited by Mavis Miller. Some original titles were: The Gypsy Schoolgirl The Heroism of Phillipa Derwent The Girl who Deceived the Form Bessie Bunter’ s Busy Day


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