File contains testimonials, reports and references for Roma Brookes from the following:
Kettering High School, 9 October 1934;
Girton College, written by H M Wodehouse, Mistress, 21 June 1938, and K T Butler (Director of Studies in Modern Languages until 1938), 5 February 1939;
Board of Education memorandum informing R B of her Board of Education reference number, 3 March 1939;
Cambridge Training College for Women, written by H Dent, principal of CTCW and Tutor in Modern Languages, July 1939;
Kettering High School, 1939, written by J Whyte, headmistress;
Talbot Heath School, 1945 and 1951, written by C F Stocks, headmistress 1925-47;
Wycombe Abbey School, 1942, written by W M Crosthwaite, headmistress;
Brighton and Hove High School, 1952, written by Kathleen Lockley, headmistress 1936-50;
H Dent, former principal of Cambridge Training College for Women, 1951;
Brighton and Hove High School, 1953 and 1954, written by I Ashcroft, headmistress;
V Ursula Lutwyche 1955;
Katherine Adlington, chairman of the governors of Great Yarmouth School Foundation, circa 1960;
Chief Education Officer of Great Yarmouth Education Committee 1960.
File also contains Roma Brookes’ CV as at 1942 and circa 1954; also the following:
copies of applications for the post of headmistress at the following schools: Southampton Grammar School for Girls [partial letter only, 1953, application may not have been made?]; Norwich High School for Girls 1953 (together with GPDST advertisement for the post and details of the school); and the Belvedere School, Liverpool 1955.