School uniform

Uniform in 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

Uniform in 1976

(Extract from "Noted 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.

Cuttings

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 funtions, but a master said this did not apply to the concert."

Throwing caps off the Town Bridge

(This picture 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").