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Floreat
Prescotia |
The
Website for former pupils of the Prescot
Grammar and Prescot Schools |
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Prescotian 2000 - 2010 |
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| The photo
shows Robert Lomax, aged 11 in
his school uniform in 1942. This
got the editor thinking about his
first days at PGS in the early
sixties and the pleasures and
perils of short trousers! The
Prescotian invites your memories
of this rite of male passage that
no longer exists today! |
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My first
year at PGS was spent in short
grey flannel trousers and that
was the norm. As the school year
went on, some boys progressed
into the longed-for long
trousers. Short trousers were
great in the summer at primary
school and who can forget the
elastic belt with snake shaped
buckle! At primary, we did not
know any better. Then we arrived
in St.Helens Road as 'newts'. As
if we did not stand out enough,
we wore our own clues to
'newtdom', short trousers. How I
pleaded with my parents to no
avail. I suppose the 'want not,
waste not' mentality of the war
was still a prevalent force.All
those cold winter days going home
with chapped inner thighs!
Eventually in my second year, my
parents tooks me to Liverpool for
my first pair of school long
trousers at Lewis'. Even then,
they held sway and i was denied
'drainpipes' nad had to make do
with oversize [you'll grow into
them!] baggy trews! [Trevor
Powell] |
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