Girton College, Cambridge

Supported by a prestigious State Scholarship, between 1933 and 1936 Lorna Lloyd read for a BA in English at Girton College, Cambridge (pictured). However, she did not graduate. This was because the University of Cambridge did not award degrees to women in the 1930s. We know from details held in the Girton College archives that Lorna was an active member of the Dramatic Society as a producer, designer and actor, and a member of the Debating Society, while an undergraduate. 

Today we thank pandammonium for her kind contribution to our online album of blipper-sourced photos of places related to Lorna.

Lorna mentions Girton just once in the Diary of the war (previously blipped in full in the LornaL journal, and now available as a podcast series with Lorna's great-great niece playing her great-great aunt). This is with reference to her fears for the fate of intellectuals should the German invade Britain. This detail can be found in the diary entry of 29th January 1940, and in Episode 4 of our podcast series. 

If you have a photograph(s) of any of the places listed below (that you have not blipped already), please do send it(them) to h.hall@napier.ac.uk and we will feature it(them) alongside the others that we have been blipping here since 13th July 2022. Thank you!

ENGLISH CITIES AND LARGE TOWNS
Birmingham
Bolton
Bristol - we'd love a shot of Lorna's grandfather's shop, still in business at 81 Henleaze Road
Coventry
Gloucester
Ilford
Sheffield
Southampton
Worcester

ENGLAND: SMALLER LOCATIONS
Aust, Gloucestershire
Leigh, Gloucestershire
Shrivenham, Oxfordshire
Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire
 
ENGLAND: VERY SPECIFIC LOCATIONS
Callow End, Malvern 
Caxton Hall, London

EUROPE - SPECIFIC PLACES
Albania: Durrës (Durazzo)
France: Bailleul,  Dunkirk, Forest of Compiègne, the Maginot Line, Roncesvalles,
Finland: Hanko (Hangoe), Mannerheim Line, Petsamo, Viipuri
Germany: Heligoland, Munich, Siegfried Line
Greece: Thermopylae
Italy: Romagna, Taranto
Poland: Silesia, Warsaw, Westerplatte
Russia: Karelian Isthmus
Spain: Guernica

REST OF THE WORLD - SPECIFIC PLACES
Epypt: Sidi Barrani
Iraq: Babylon (Hillah)
Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria: Lake Chad
Senegal: Dakar
South Africa: Mafeking (Mafekeng)
Uruguay: Montevideo

EUROPE AND REST OF THE WORLD - GENERAL (i.e. we just need a shot from anywhere in the country listed)
Belgium
Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic)
Finland
French Equatorial Africa (now Chad, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon)
Greece
Libya
Luxembourg
Middle East
Poland
Romania
Slovakia
South Africa
Sweden