NOTES ON
1963, A day out in
London
http://comp.uark.edu/~dsears/photos/Eileen63london/
In
1963 I was fourteen and still making frequent visits with my family to
London. And we were still wearing
school uniforms at the weekend. I think
this was the custom in those days, to wear school uniform when being a
tourist. It got cheap or free admission
into the places of interest.
The
school uniform at St. Michael’s was brown with a gold badge of an overlain S
and M. The school tie was brown with
gold diagonal stripes. The tech’s
uniform was black with the school’s badge of touching shields, one for
Maidstone and one for Kent. The tie was
burgundy with pale blue diagonals lined with a stripe whose colour reflected
one of four houses we were assigned to.
I was in Chillington house, green.
I liked my school uniform and had no objection to wearing it, although
in mid-teens the cap (hat) was an embarrassment. In the sixth form (age 17 and 18) we did not have to wear the cap
and in Maidstone there was a custom for students completing the fifth form of
tossing their caps in the River Medway.
In the sixth form prefects had a different tie, dark blue with blue and
red strips and a silver Invicta – insignia for Kent.
School uniforms.
Left, St. Michael’s C of E Infants Mixed, brown and gold.
Right, Maidstone Technical High School for Boys.
School ties.
Middle,
the tie I wore in forms 1 to 5 (age 11 to 16).
Right, the prefect’s tie I wore in the sixth form
(age 17 and 18).
The school badge, and motto to “Strive and Serve”
Go to Derek’s
photos on this topic
Go to notes on earlier visits
to London (1954), (1958)