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"The Keep Fit classes for women and girls started in Walthamstow
last year have continued to run and additional classes have
been formed. Ten of these classes are now held at the following
Centres:—
Mondays Chapel End.
Tuesdays Blackhorse Road and Coppermill Road.
Wednesdays Forest Road, Mission Grove and Selwyn
Avenue.
Thursdays Markhouse Road, Mission Grove, Winns
Avenue (2 classes).
"In connection with this work for the adolescent, a Games Club
has been started. This club meets on Saturday afternoons at the
Salisbury Hall Playing Field, most generously lent by the Education
Committee, and it is possible for any girl or woman in
Walthamstow to play hockey, netball, tennis or cricket for a fee
of 2d. for the afternoon. For this very modest sum members get
the services of a games coach and are supplied with the necessary
games equipment. The club has approximately 50 members.
Several matches with local clubs have been played, and it is hoped
that, as girls become more skilful during school life, the desire to
continue their games and the membership of this club will greatly
increase. The provision of such cheap facilities in a built-up area
such as Walthamstow must be indeed rare.
"The men's Keep Fit class started at Selwyn Avenue lastMarch
continues to hold regular weekly meetings and is now under
the control of the Essex Education Authority, which has also
extended its provision of teachers of physical training to the recently
formed Old Boys' Club at the Joseph Barrett and Chapel End
Senior Boys' Schools."
The following Keep Fit Classes were held during 1938 :—
Mondays Winns Avenue Senior Girls' School 8-9 p.m.
Club Leaders' Course at Forest
Road Boys'School 7.30-9 p.m.
Tuesdays Chapel End Senior Girls' School 8-9 p.m.
9-10 p.m.
Wednesdays Mission Grove Infants' School 8-9 p.m.
Forest Road Junior Girls' School—
Sword Dancing 7.30-8 p.m.
Forest Road Junior Girls' School—
Folk Dancing 8-9 p.m.
Thursdays Selwyn Avenue Infants' School 8-9 p.m.
Winns Avenue Senior Girls' School 7-8 p.m.
Also on 8-9 p.m.
Saturdays Salisbury Hall Playing Fields 2.30p.m.
until dusk.