OUR family is trying to find information about our mother, Marian Lambert, whom we know attended what we believe was an all-girls’ boarding school in North Yorkshire sometime between 1922 and 1932. She lived at the school full-time from about the age of six to 16.

She died in 2004, aged 89 in Canada, her home since 1946, and never told us the name of the school. In spite of our that, it is a mystery.

In the 1980s, she found an old postcard of Robin Hood’s Bay in what she called a junk store in Canada, and mailed it to us in Toronto. On the back, she wrote “This is not too far from my school”.

This clue started us on a hunt for the school. A lengthy internet search has not turned up any candidates and, until recently, we had no leads on where the school might have been.

Then a lady from Leeds, who swims at our local recreation centre, suggested we look around Fylingdales. We contacted the museum at Robin Hood’s Bay, who put us on to Fylingdales Local History Group.

Fyling Hall does not appear to be a candidate, as it was not in the vicinity of Robin Hood’s Bay until 1934, and apparently was never an all-girls’ school. However, a man who is involved with the alumni at Fyling Hall said we should look at Sneaton Castle, which he indicated was a girls-only school, and in business in 1922.

All we know about school life is that our mother referred somewhat fondly to the headmistress as “matron” and that she regularly rode a horse named “Lovey”. There was a boy’s school nearby, as she said she had a crush on one of the young men there. It is quite possible this was a private school.

Any information about which school it is will be of interest to us. Please email carol_reid@mac.com

Carol Reid, Canada