Figure 1.--This 1974 photograph shows Form ?C at Hayes Grammar School. The school is no longer apparently enforcing a uniform regulation. A few boys, however, still wear their blazers. |
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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 in the 1950s, the boys wore blazers with colored piping. The girls wore sweaters. The available image from 1974 shows that schoolwear had changed substantially. The children no longer wear a uniform, although a few boys are stll wearing the school blazer.
HBC is not sure which form this was. The chilren look a little older than the Form 1 students pictured in the other Hayes Grammar pages.
An examination of the photograph provides show that the school no longer requires a uniform. The uniform, however, has not completely disappeared. One boy wears the full school uniform. A few boys wear the school blazer, but other than that there appears to be no uniform requirement. Most of the girls are wearing white kneesocks. In earlier years they were mostly wearing short white socks.
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Caps like the rest of the uniform have long since disappeared.
Some of the boys appear to have liked their blazers as they have worn them vountarily for the photograph. Perhaps their parents have encouraged them a bit.
Onlybone boy and none of the girls in this form wears a ties.
The boys appear to be wearing a wide variety of trendy shirts--even with their blazers. While no one is wearing a tie, several boys have buttoned their collar button.
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Only one boy appears to be wearing a school jumper.
Some of the girls are wearing cardigan sweaters. The girls in the 1960s wore grey cardigan sweaters rather than blazers.
None of the girls are wearing the gym slip uniform worn in previous years. Almost all are, however, wearing dresses.
All of the boys and one girl are wearing long trousers.
The girls are almost all wearing white kneesocks. This contrasts with former years when they mostly wore short socks.
All of the boys here are wearing hair over their ears. Some boys have quite long hair. There appears to be no school rule about hair length.
An old boy writes, "In regards to photos you have of Hayes County Grammar School, I left the school in 1974 the supposed date of your picture. we fought long and hard to oppose uniform wearing for those in 6th form, ie over 16, even threatening a strike (of sorts) but the remainder of the school where required to wear full uniform.
The blazer had a light blue braiding around it in my time and i believe it was always so. Classes at the School in 1974 where caled 'F' 'G' and 'R' which stood for French, German, and Russian, the languages they where taught. 6th form was known as upper and lower 'U' and 'L'" [Carson]
Carson, Steve. E-mail message, August 7, 2007.
Related Chronolgy Pages in the Boys' Historical Web Site
[The 1880s]
[The 1930s]
[The 1940s]
[The 1950s]
[The 1960s]
[The 1970s]
[The 1980s]
Related Style Pages in the Boys' Historical Web Site
[Long pants suits]
[Short pants suits]
[Socks]
[Eton suits]
[Jacket and trousers]
[Blazer]
[School sandals]
