Still looking for sporty quakers, our production manager has spotted this appeal in The Friend of 23 June 1944:

'Charles Haworth, warden of the Barnet Grove branch of the Bedford Institute (36 Barnet Grove, London E2) would be very grateful for any swimming caps which readers could spare. Owing to the rubber shortage, the girls cannot always get caps and sometimes have to miss swimming for that reason.' An advertisement in the same issue asks for help - 'SWIMMING CAPS, tennis balls, rubber shoes and sports shoes are in great demand for summer activities – please send your old, unused ones to Charles Haworth, Friends Hall, Barnet Grove, E2)'.
Wasn't hair sometimes called a Barnet in the Bedford Institute's part of London?
It's rhyming slang. Barnet Fair - hair - Ed.

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