Figure 1.--I thought you might like a picture of me on my first day at school in England aged 5 in 1960. As You can see the uniform is very typical of the time wearing a cap, blazer, long socks and sandals. |
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I thought you might like a picture of me on my first day at school in England aged 5 in 1960. As You can see the uniform is very typical of the time wearing a cap, blazer, long socks and sandals.
The blazer was green and so was the cap. [HBC note: Notice how in grey scale that the green blazer and grey shorts look very similar, showing how difficult it is to try to assess colors in blck and white photographs.] The shorts were grey flannel, which is very typical of the time. I remember the uniform had a very distinct smell of being new. The school was called Highfield situated in the town of East Grinstead, West Sussex. I went there at the age of 5 and left when I was 7, before going to a preparatory boarding school. Highfield was a small private school. I use to catch the bus from home which was about 3 miles away. I remember being beaton with the slipper by the head master Mr Gordon Walker for mis behaving on the bus one day. It was very painful! I never forgave the pupil who reported me to the head master!
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