Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?

Trumpet

Trumpet

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Gramaisc said:
No, descending.

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Known to some of us as the 'dead pigeon'.
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Dove Bomber?
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Mudgie said:
Basingstoke ?
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Yes - the school was a madhouse,

I would love to have been there a few years later when it was effectively closed and reconstituted.

When I ran a student house, there was a lad there who had gone to the same school, but in name only, and on different premises. He just didn't believe my description of how it had been in my time - it seemed half-sane by his days there.
 
Cue

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Lucy said:
Peer pressure probably. Non uniform days were horrible in my day, if you wanted to keep up with the cool kids (I didn't). If your parents can't afford all the labels then uniform is a better way to go.
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I never saw any of that going on to be honest, I was in school during the naughties though. Always felt uniform was a rather unnecessary thing, saw far more bullying of people with their top buttons and ties done up “to standard” than casual wear. And the peanutting.

You can buy a considerable amount of casual wear for the pride they want for uniform.
 
Noah

Noah

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School I went to had an official supplier which was expensive. Just round the corner was another shop who sold very similar uniforms but wasn't allowed to have the school badge embroidered on the cap or blazer pocket. So he had them embroidered on patches to be sown on. Did the same for all the schools in the area.

Don't think we had a uniform for infants school, primary school I think you had to wear a white shirt and grey short trousers, a pullover & there was a school tie.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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Noah said:
On the grounds that if you buy it any earlier the little buggers will put on a growth spurt and will have outgrown the clothes by the start of term.
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I wonder if that was part of the original rationale behind short trousers?

I actually wore shorts to school most days between the ages of 12 and 15.

But it was a bit warmer there.

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None of those are me, but that's the general style that we had.
 
Thehooperman

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Gramaisc said:
I wonder if that was part of the original rationale behind short trousers?

I actually wore shorts to school most days between the ages of 12 and 15.

But it was a bit warmer there.

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None of those are me, but that's the general style that we had.
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I went to King Eddy's when it was a grammar school and we had to wear shorts until, I think, the third year.

It was a source of amusement to the girls when our year was transferred to Westway when they combined with the girl's high school.
 
PeterD

PeterD

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When I am king I will eradicate uniforms in schools. Or more to the point the monopolised detail that ensure specific retailers are the only people that can sell them. If you have a uniform make it a blue sweatshirt, as an example and not a badged one.
 
Mudgie

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Noah said:
School I went to had an official supplier which was expensive. Just round the corner was another shop who sold very similar uniforms but wasn't allowed to have the school badge embroidered on the cap or blazer pocket. So he had them embroidered on patches to be sown on. Did the same for all the schools in the area.

Don't think we had a uniform for infants school, primary school I think you had to wear a white shirt and grey short trousers, a pullover & there was a school tie.
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The secondary school I went to had an official supplier in Leicester forty-something miles away.
 
Glam

Glam

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PeterD said:
When I am king I will eradicate uniforms in schools. Or more to the point the monopolised detail that ensure specific retailers are the only people that can sell them. If you have a uniform make it a blue sweatshirt, as an example and not a badged one.
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When my eldest started at Blessed Bills, we obviously had to start from scratch with the uniform. Sweatshirts £25 a time! Same with the rugby tops etc.
It was just a change of school, We hadn't become lottery winners overnight.

No 2 followed a couple of years later, bigger than No1, so we couldn't even pass owt down.
By the time daughter 1 and only went, they had started wearing the blazers, waste of ruddy money. She had about 6 months left there, yet we were told she still had to have 1. Youngest had started there by this time, so that was £50 before we even thought about getting his uniform.
We couldn't even buy a tie 'off the shelf' they were £3.50 a time, with a change of design once they reached whatever year it was, I can't remember.

Apart from the tie, all had to come from the shop in St.Marys Mews. They are laughing all the way to the bank.
 
Jonah

Jonah

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It’s a good example of both parties making money from their captive audience.
 
rudie111

rudie111

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We only have to send the nipper to school in the correct colours. No need to be badged up. This is a primary school (3 tier system). We did buy a book bag from said shop and had her name embroidered on it. She still managed to bring someone else's back on a few occasions!
 
Mudgie

Mudgie

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rudie111 said:
We only have to send the nipper to school in the correct colours. No need to be badged up. This is a primary school (3 tier system). We did buy a book bag from said shop and had her name embroidered on it. She still managed to bring someone else's back on a few occasions!
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But if she brought back better books than she took it wouldn't matter !
 
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