The Belles of St. Lemons

A comic strip appearing in the Beano comic in the early 1970's. The title was both a play on the nursery rhyme "Oranges and Lemons" and Ronald Searle's Belles of St. Trinians cartoons. St. Lemons was essentially the girls' boarding-school equivalent of the Bash Street Kids - the "belles" all conforming to comic stereotypes (the fat one, the unintelligent one, the leader etc.). The weekly strip ended around 1972, although further episodes continued to appear in the annuals.