Figure 1.-- This class portrait shows a state primary schooll class with their teacher in July 1963. This was at the end of the school year during the summer. English primary schools by this time were mostly coed like the school here. The school was located in Catherham, a Lonndon suburb in Surrey. Caterham was not the name of the school. There were probably several primary schools in Catherham. The children look to be about 9-years old. There was no uniform. Many primary schools in the 1960s had begun requiring basic uniforms. The girls all wear dresses. The boys all wear short pants. As it was summer, they wear ankle socks. Had in been earlier in the year many of the boys probably would have worn knee socks. Curiously as there was no uniform, the boys also all wear school sandals.

This class portrait shows a state primary schooll class with their teacher in July 1963. This was at the end of the school year during the summer. English primary schools by this time were mostly coed like the school here. The school was located in Catherham, a Lonndon suburb in Surrey. Caterham was not the name of the school. There were probably several primary schools in Catherham. The children look to be about 9-years old. There was no uniform. Many primary schools in the 1960s had begun requiring basic uniforms. The girls all wear dresses. While there was no uniform, there seems to have been a school tie. o the biys with ties all ear the same striped tie. The boys all wear short pants. As it was summer, they wear ankle socks. Had in been earlier in the year many of the boys probably would have worn knee socks. Curiously as there was no uniform, the boys also all wear school sandals. We suspect that mny of the girls also wore sandals, but we can not tell from the photograph. Sandals were common for younger boys at the time, but not universal. We do not know if the school provided the parents any guidelines here. The shirts vary. Some boys wear 'T'-shirts while others wear white dress shirts and ties. Sespite the warm weaher, we also see sweaters, probanly because they were such common school garments. We note several boys dressed like a uniform school, but only one girl wears a uniform-type dress.

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