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Highgate School is private English boys' school that has become a coeducational school. Like many public schools it was primarily a boarding school divided into houses. It now has prep and pre-prep divisions. We have little information on the school's history explaining when it was founded and when prep and pre-prep divisions were added. The boys in the secondary school wear jackets and ties, but there does not appear to have been a uniform as such. We note one photograph showing the Lodge, a boarding house, at Highgate School in 1974 (figure 1). The boys in the secondary school wear jackets and ties. The boys look to be wearing suits and blazers. We are not sure why one boy wears short trousers. He looks younger than the other boys. Perhaps he is the son of the house master who attends a prep school. Perhaps he attends the Highgate prep division and there was no boarding faciliy at the time. A HBC reader suggests, "He seems to wear the same jacket as the others so he is probably small for his age." Also notice how popular long hair styles were in 1974. Like many public schools, there was a Combined Cadet Force available as an option.
Highgate School is private English boys' school that has become a coeducational school. We have little information on the school's history explaining when it was founded and when prep and pre-prep divisions were added. We do have a wonderful personal acoount of a World War II evacuee boy who attended Highgate after the War.
Like many public schools, Highgate was primarily a boarding school divided into houses. We note one photograph showing the Lodge, a boarding house, at Highgate School in 1974 (figure 1). The boys in the secondary school wear jackets and ties. The boys seem to be wearing either blue blazers or grey suits. We are not sure why one boy wears short trousers. He looks younger than the other boys. Perhaps he is the son of the house master who attends a prep school. Perhaps he attends the Highgate prep division and there was no boarding faciliy at the time. A HBC reader suggests, "He seems to wear the same jacket as the others so he is probably small for his age." We note several public schools that had the prep boys wear the same jackets as the senior school, only with short trousers like the boy here. A reader tells us that he was porobably the house master's son who attended the prep school. Over time the day boy houses becamne more important as boarding declined. A reader tells us about Fargate House.
It now has prep and pre-prep divisions. The boys in the secondary school wear jackets and ties, but there does not appear to have been a uniform as such.
An Old Boy tells us about the Medical form. "This is the 'Medical' form. Our curriculum was steered towards taking our First MB exam for Medical School entry, rather than Higher School Cert. I am second from the right in the front row in my Prefects Jacket. I attended Highgate after being evacuated to America during the War. The boy at the end is the same boy infront of me in the Wellesley College Photo showing fellow evacuees when we wrrived in America in 1940. We had no idea each was destined for the same school back in England."
There was a uniform. It is not clear from the photo of The Lodge, but it was summer time so some boys would be wearing their grey suits, some mid-blue blazers (figure 1). Other boys have blue blazers with maroon trim, if they had been awarded 'Colours' for sports (Letter men in your parlance). Prefects and Monitors would be wearing black jackets, hence the variety of clothes shown. The small boy in short trousers would be the Housemaster's son.
School Monitors (Junior Prefects) and Prefects wore Black Jackets and grey trousers. Perversely sartorial, we wore brown shoes. The ordinary boys wore black shoes. Axreadercexplains, "It is all tradition you know old boy!"
Also notice how popular long hair styles were in 1974.
Like many public schools, there was a Combined Cadet Force available as an option. An Old Boy tells us about the school Cadet program in the 1940s after the War.
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