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(Taken from the [[Boston Grammar School]] [http://www.bostongrammarschool.co.uk/ website], 28 May 2017) | (Taken from the [[Boston Grammar School]] [http://www.bostongrammarschool.co.uk/ website], 28 May 2017) | ||
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Nationwide School Uniforms - http://www.nationwideschooluniforms.co.uk | Nationwide School Uniforms - http://www.nationwideschooluniforms.co.uk | ||
== | ==1976== | ||
Extract from "Notes for parents of new boys" dated 1st July 1976 | Extract from "Notes for parents of new boys" dated 1st July 1976 | ||
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Fancy shoes, gorgeous waistcoats and coloured socks are not permitted. | Fancy shoes, gorgeous waistcoats and coloured socks are not permitted. | ||
== | ==1964== | ||
===Throwing caps off the Town Bridge=== | |||
[[File:1964capthrowing.jpg|right|600px|]] | |||
This photograph was taken on July 24th 1964 and appeared in the [[Boston Standard]] | |||
Following in true tradition, Boston Grammar School boys and High School girls fling their books and caps off the Town Bridge as a final farewell to their schooldays. | |||
Photograph from the Boston Standard, supplied by [[Stewart Brown]] | |||
Those indicated on the photograph are [[Robert Walter|G Robert Walter]], [[Peter Sharman]], [[Trevor Scott|J Trevor Scott]], [[George Danby]], [[Cartwright| "Nobby" Cartwright]], Stewart Brown ("Me"). | |||
== | ==1963== | ||
===Boys' dress was out of tune=== | ===Boys' dress was out of tune=== | ||
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==1961== | |||
A letter from the headmaster. | |||
The Grammar School, | |||
Boston, Lincs. | |||
December, 1961. | |||
Dear Sir/Madam, | |||
I have had occasion this term to condemn the mode of dress of a few boys, with particular reference to shoes, trousers and hair styles, and I suspect that many other boys try to persuade their parents by saying that these eccentricities are the fashion and that other parents are allowing it. I am glad to say that very few parents are allowing it and I wish to state my views to strengthen the hand of parents and my own in dealing with excesses. | |||
Shoes with pointed toes are thoroughly bad for growing feet and are entirely unsuitable footwear for boys. Trousers of exaggerated tightness are equally | |||
unacceptable: trousers should be grey and not black. Any hairstyle which requires the hair to be long is not only out of place in a school but is unhygienic when boys are playing games, and it is undesirable to use too much hair oil when boys are using agility mattresses in the gymnasium or taking showers. May I add that shoes should preferably be black and pullovers V-necked and grey, though a variation to pastel shades is permissible for boys in the Upper Sixth. | |||
[[William John Ricketts|W.J. Ricketts]], | |||
Headmaster | |||
==1959== | |||
It seems that braid on blazers was phased out from 1959. [[Ken Miles-Crust]] remembers "[[Alf Britchford]] being used as a fashion model being paraded around the school with the new design blazer and cap". | |||
==1958== | |||
[[File:1958RayMillard.jpg|right|300px|Ray Millard on his first day at BGS in 1958]] | |||
This photograph shows [[Ray Millard]] on his first day at [[Boston Grammar School]] in 1958. He joined into form 1A with form tutor [[William Edward Cox|"Ted" Cox]]. Photograph supplied by Ray Millard. | |||
[[Category:BGS Traditions]] | [[Category:BGS Traditions]] | ||
Revision as of 11:55, 20 August 2018
2017
(Taken from the Boston Grammar School website, 28 May 2017)
Key Stage 3-4:
Black school Blazers
Black V neck jumper plain (optional)
Black full length trousers
Black plain socks
Black plain shoes (no trainer or plimsoll styles, please)
White long/short sleeved shirts (with school ties)
House colour ties (boys)
Plain Coat (no logos please)
Key Stage 5:
As above, but:
Optional Black Blazer
Black V neck jumper with embroidered school logo
Plain ties (represent sixth form pupils)
Student leadership team to be represented by badges – to be provided by school
Stockists
Some of the above items are available from the school. Alternatively, they can be bought from the following outlets in Boston:
Oldrid & Co Ltd, 11-17 Strait Bargate, Boston
Marks & Spencer, 5 Market Place, Boston
Nationwide School Uniforms - http://www.nationwideschooluniforms.co.uk
1976
Extract from "Notes for parents of new boys" dated 1st July 1976
Clothing: All items to be marked with owners' name (sic). Uniform is worn at all times to and from school and in school: (shirt sleeve order in school is permitted in heat waves). Boys wear a coloured shirt for games (according to House). Fancy shoes, gorgeous waistcoats and coloured socks are not permitted.
1964
Throwing caps off the Town Bridge
This photograph was taken on July 24th 1964 and appeared in the Boston Standard
Following in true tradition, Boston Grammar School boys and High School girls fling their books and caps off the Town Bridge as a final farewell to their schooldays.
Photograph from the Boston Standard, supplied by Stewart Brown
Those indicated on the photograph are G Robert Walter, Peter Sharman, J Trevor Scott, George Danby, "Nobby" Cartwright, Stewart Brown ("Me").
1963
Boys' dress was out of tune
c1963 the Daily Mirror published this report.
Three senior boys were sent home from a grammar school because they wore "irregular clothes" and made "a conspicuous entrance" at the school's annual concert, their parents were told yesterday. Clothes worn by the three boys included a checked suit with a black collar, a green jacket with jeans, and a sports jacket with a polo-necked sweater. Mr William Ricketts, headmaster of the school at Boston, Lincs, wrote to the parents of each boy: "I am taking this action to remind your boy that he comes to this school on our terms and not his." The boys are sixth-formers Michael Dolby-Phillips, 16, and Jack Morton, 17, and fifth-former Roy Croft, 16. One of them yesterday: "A school rule says uniforms must be worn at school functions, but a master said this did not apply to the concert."
1961
A letter from the headmaster.
The Grammar School, Boston, Lincs. December, 1961. Dear Sir/Madam, I have had occasion this term to condemn the mode of dress of a few boys, with particular reference to shoes, trousers and hair styles, and I suspect that many other boys try to persuade their parents by saying that these eccentricities are the fashion and that other parents are allowing it. I am glad to say that very few parents are allowing it and I wish to state my views to strengthen the hand of parents and my own in dealing with excesses. Shoes with pointed toes are thoroughly bad for growing feet and are entirely unsuitable footwear for boys. Trousers of exaggerated tightness are equally unacceptable: trousers should be grey and not black. Any hairstyle which requires the hair to be long is not only out of place in a school but is unhygienic when boys are playing games, and it is undesirable to use too much hair oil when boys are using agility mattresses in the gymnasium or taking showers. May I add that shoes should preferably be black and pullovers V-necked and grey, though a variation to pastel shades is permissible for boys in the Upper Sixth. W.J. Ricketts, Headmaster
1959
It seems that braid on blazers was phased out from 1959. Ken Miles-Crust remembers "Alf Britchford being used as a fashion model being paraded around the school with the new design blazer and cap".
1958
This photograph shows Ray Millard on his first day at Boston Grammar School in 1958. He joined into form 1A with form tutor "Ted" Cox. Photograph supplied by Ray Millard.