PICTURES: Wallington High School for Girls celebrates 125th anniversary

The school marked the landmark occasion by combining their summer fete with an anniversary picnic.

Old girls turned out in force to mark the occasion

Old Wallingtonions returned to their former school, bringing in memorabilia, to share the event with current staff and pupils.

Youngsters enjoying the space hoppers 

Nilani Sivachelvam, 13, Maria Lenders, 13, Shaiann Payne, 13, Ledshajini Segarajasingham, 13.

Mark Waran and his son Luke, 11. 

Sisters Sadia Majeed, 17, and Shezana, 24. 

The school began with 25 pupils in 1888 in West Street, Carshalton, and was known as the Church High School of Carshalton, Beddington, Wallington and Sutton.

By the mid 1890s there were 60 pupils on the register and Surrey County Council took it over renaming it to Wallington County High School of Girls and moving it to Manor Road, Wallington.

Group photo at the school fete in the 1960s

In 1926 the school moved to Stanley Park Road, Carshalton, where it saw through the Second World War.

Timetables and GCE examinations were badly disrupted by air raid alarms and teachers had to get the girls to give their word they would not discuss their disrupted exams in the trenches.

The gymnasium in the early 1900s

In the summer of 1965 the expanding school moved to Woodcote Green to a considerably larger premises where it remains today – going through a battle in the 70s to remain a grammar school.

Girls at work in the laboratories 

For more information about the school's history visit their website.

On Wednesday, July 17, current pupils will take part in a Race for Life, for Cancer Research UK, on the school playing field.

To sponsor the girls visit http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/wallygirls125