Figure 1.--This 1966 photograph shows Form 1T at HGS. The boys wear blazers with long black trousers while the girls wear sweaters and gym slips.
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Figure 1.--This 1966 photograph shows Form 1T at HGS. The boys wear blazers with long black trousers while the girls wear sweaters and gym slips. |
The Hayes Grammar School appears to have been one of the few such schools that was coeducational. This was unsusual as most grammar schools were single gender schools. The full name was the Hayes County Grammar School. The school still exists, but became a comprehensive in 1974/5, with the new name Hayes Manor School. When it was a grammar school, the boys wore blazers with colored piping. The girls wore sweaters. The available image from 1960 shows the uniform little changed from the 1950s. One difference was that some of the Form 1 boys had begun to wear long pants.
Form 1 is the new pupils, the youngest group. They would be 11-12 years olds, but as the school photograsph is usually taken toward the end of the year, these children are probably mostly 12 years old. The fact that they are Form "T" apparently reffered to their home room location on the top floor. Grammar schools often streamed the different forms, but the school had apparently stopped naming the different forms A, B, C, ect.
An examination of the photograph provides some details about the uniform regulations at the school. The students wear boys wear blazers with colored piping. The girls wear sweaters. The available image from 1966 shows that the boys are wearing long trousers. While we can not see what the boys in back row are wearing, it is likely that they are wearing long trousers as well. The fact that all the students are wearing the full uniform suggests that the regulations were still strictly enforced.
Figure 2.--The boys wear a uniform of blazer, and tie. Although most of the boys are in the back row, the fact that the boys at the left and right are wearing longs suggests that probably all of the boys in the back row are also wearing them. |
Caps were often compulsory at grammar schools in the 1950s, except for the older boys. Many schools were by the 1950s beginning to relack enforcement of the cap rule. I'm not sure what the rule was at the Hayes Grammar School in 1966. The pupils would of course not wear their caps for the photograph. The fact that boys are wearing long trousers suggests that they probably did not have to wear caps. Caps had become quite unusual at grammar schools by the mid-1960s. I'm not sure what kind of cap the girls would have worn.
The boys wear standard blazers with the school crest. The blazers appear to be grey with colored piping, probably the same color as the ties. Many prep schools had brightly colored blazers, but this was less common at grammar schools. Thus while it is difficult to be sure with a black and white photograph, probablly the blazers were grey. Interestingly only the boys wear them.
All of the pupils, both the girls and the boys wear the same solid-colored tie. I'm not sure what color it would have been. The ties appear to be the only garment worn by both the boys and girls.
It is unclear what kind of shirts the boys wear. For special occasions like the school photograph, the boys may haveworn white shirts. For daily wear, grey shirts were more common.
Figure 3.--In this photograph only two boys are positioned so you can see what kind of trousers they are wearing. Thate boy is wearing longs, suggesting that this was now the standard attire at the school. The girls uniform seems unchanged, except one girl is wearing white kneesocks. |
Some of the boys are probably wearing grey jumpers, but as their blazers are mostly buttoned up, we do not know anything about them. One boy appears to be wearing a plain grey jumper. The other boy seems to be wearing a jumper with colored trim. None of the girls are wearing jumpers.
The girls wear plain grey cardigan sweaters without the school badge or colored trim. Girls at schools by the 1970s commonly wore vlazers just like the boys. HBC is not sure if it was common for girls to wear sweaters rather than blazers like the boys during the 1950s and 60s.
The girls wear standard school gym slips as their school uniform. The gym slip was the standard girl's uniform at the time and is still worn in England, but mostly at private schools.
Although most of the boys are in the back row, the boys at the left and right wear long trousers. This suggests that the other boys wear longs as well.
The girls still wear mostly short white ankle socks. Presumably this was a school requirement in past years as all of the girls used to wear short white socks. Most still do. Girls, but not boys, also wore white kneesocks at English schools, but apparetly they were not allowed at Hayes. The use of white kneesocks may have been more common later in the 1960s. HBC notes that one girl here wears white kneesocks.
Several of the boys are wearing notavle longer hair styles than was the case in 1the 1950s and early 1960s. There are no really long hair cuts, but several of the boys have quite a bit of hair.
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