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- ↑ "School Days (Image 14 of 27)". Wales Online. 9 February 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
- 1 2 3 Egan, Josephine (1988), Opting Out: Catholic Schools Today, Fowler Wright Books, p. 49, ISBN 0-85244-1312