Prep B 1957
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How could anyone forget.Rod Stuart wrote:We used to have to have our hair cut by the barber behind the tuck shop; big guy with a wooden leg. No choice of cut of course, just short back and sides and out the door. John Rutley must remember.
Some plates were always retained by Grecians, the RAF one for instance. It was mainly the RMS plates that for historical reasons had to be given up. Grecians were in the "Grammar School" in the London system, so they couldn't be simultaneously in the Mathematical School.postwarblue wrote: Plates: there was a Stock's Gift plate (one or two only) and one other. In 1954 when I got my buttons down came my RMS plate (which, as a 'volunteer', I hadn't had for long). The plate went back into circulation via Matron & the wardrobe presumably. I now see that Grecians continue to wear their plates. Indeed they have moved downhill, one of those creeping changes I suppose like Grecians buttoning their cuffs.
Well done Robert, that brought back a few memories... I thought the barbers name was Sweeney Todd but as I have said before, your memory of this period is far better than mine.postwarblue wrote:Haircuts: When I arrived in the Prep in 1946 and for a while thereafter a creature called the Sheepshearer used to go round the houses cutting hair in the bootroom, short back and sides.