School Songs and Gym Slips: Grammar Schools in the 1950s and 1960s

For anyone educated at a grammar school during their heyday in the 1950s and '60s, those days will always hold a very special place in their memory. They were more than just the years of being taught needlecraft or woodwork, acting in the school play and singing the school song. They were the formative years of a generation, when girls and boys came from all walks of life and were given a uniform, a code of behaviour and, most importantly, pride in the institution to which they belonged. An...