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LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 26 May 2023 19:43

We had black shoes for outdoors and wore brown shoes indoors.....you got a detention if you had the wrong colour on :-0 :-0

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 26 May 2023 19:43

Funny how we accepted all the rules and regulations without a blink of the eye.

Kids would have a fit now. :-D

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 26 May 2023 19:43

I just heard one of me teachers….Ann M are you wearing stockings under your socks!! :-D :-D :-D

Von

Von Report 26 May 2023 19:44

It did have borderie anglais on it ;-) ;-)

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 26 May 2023 19:44

Black 'sensible' shoes. Didnt stop me beggering my feet up with heels at the weekend. :-D :-D

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 26 May 2023 19:45

Speak for yerself MG :-D :-D :-D

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 26 May 2023 19:45

In those days we were in fear of the teachers Maddie :-0 :-D Now the teachers are in fear of the children :-(

Fly

Fly Report 26 May 2023 19:47

Sad innit :-(

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 26 May 2023 19:47

I cringe at the nicknames we gave our teachers. :-0 :-0

Von

Von Report 26 May 2023 19:48

No eating sweets whilst in school uniform :-0 :-0 :-|

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 26 May 2023 19:48

Our Science teacher used to throw chalk at anyone who spoke in class. :-D :-D

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 26 May 2023 19:49

I think my parents would have had to have taken out a loan to kit me out for school, if wasn't just the uniform you had to have so many different things to wear for the different sports :-0

Fly

Fly Report 26 May 2023 19:50

Ours used the throw the blackboard rubber ;-)

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 26 May 2023 19:50

And there were some dam cruel teachers even in the 60’s, for some pupils school must have been a nightmare :-(

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 26 May 2023 19:50

You had to walk up the corridor on one side and down on the other.....no running :-0

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 26 May 2023 19:51

Dau had a kilt. £50 for that alone! Only one shop stocked it. :-P

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 26 May 2023 19:52

We had an UP staircase, and a DOWN staircase, gawd help you if you went down the up! :-D :-D

Von

Von Report 26 May 2023 19:52

At our primary school we had white lines down the centre of the corridors.

Year 6 were traffic patrols. ;-) ;-)

Fly

Fly Report 26 May 2023 19:53

Your schools sound like prison camps :-0

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 26 May 2023 19:53

Same in my school Belle :-( no talking in between classes