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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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