On the last morning of the summer term at the all-girls St Margaret's School, Bushey, in the 1950s, the deputy headmistress would walk each leaver, one by one, up the aisle of the school chapel at the final assembly.
This was a rehearsal for their fathers walking them up the aisle of a church, which it was expected they soon would.
Marriage was their hoped-for imminent destination. But what did Britain's daughters do between the final assembly and the day of meeting
