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Individual Scottish Schools: Kiel School

Kiel School
Figure 1.--Here we see a group of Kiel boys on a field trip to the U.S. naval base at Faslane. For the field trip they wear their dress uniforms of caps, blazers, and kilts. Also notice the gaberdine overcoats.

Keil School (which closed down I think about 1995) was a boarding school near Glasgow. We do not have historical details. We do know that it was a well-established school in the 1960s. The school published a history, but we do not have a copy. The school was primarily a boarding school, intended especially for boys from the Highlands. Relatively few day boys attended the school. In its latter years it was co-educational. A Scottish reader tells us, "I have several friends who attended Keil School and have pleasant memories of it as a good school, its demise was much regretted." Kiel had a very distinctive uniform. The blazer was bright green with yellow piping. The woollen socks, which had two broad yellow stripes, were also green, as were the caps. The boys usually wore normal-type blue school shorts. Most British schools had grey shorts, but several (especially in SDcotland had blue shorts. The boys for outings and special events, wore their own kilts, with the other items of the uniform. This was a little unudsual in that most schools wore tweed jackets with kilts rather than the school blazer. The effect was quite colourful. The school was close to the U.S. naval base at Faslane. As a result, there were often a few American boys at the school.







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