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  1. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    No I don't think I would like be at school today but then again I might strike it lucky?. I was hit for things I didn't do at school. Or for not wearing the correct uniform which was not always down to me. My parents were not rich. Some children were struck because teachers just didn't like...
  2. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    I found it hard later on as I was bullied but I stood up to the bullies but it's harder when it's a teacher who is the bully. My friend's granddaughter in law teaches in Notts, she has no guidance how to deal with a boy who Identifies as a dog. The other children find it hilarious. My...
  3. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    Is that irony or did you really?
  4. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    Colours showed through their pristine white shcool blouses
  5. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    That's horrible, I was regaling some of the stories watered down, to the family here for the holidays. The found it hard to believe. We have an older friend who had worse stories of teachers who hated some children for no reason and vented it on them.
  6. I Am Nico

    Birmingham butchers retail

    I used to deliver proofs to Walter Smith in Coventry in Bull Yard, then it became Mr Eatwell wasn't nice after that.
  7. I Am Nico

    Birmingham butchers retail

    We had a Tuckey in Coventry . The Real Meat Company they have a farm still I think not far where you can buy.
  8. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    My schoolfriend wore a sky blue bra and was called out for it. A male gym teacher walked through the girls' changing rooms as a short cut to the gym. Some girls were in bras they all thought it was funny.
  9. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    I rebelled just before I left during exam time. I came in late, not on purpose but had to walk the proverbial the plank in my black and red platforms with segs on, my non uniform trousers and jacket, shirt and no tie. I suppose we will let you take your exam, said the teacher. probably 1972.
  10. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    The pettiness of it all. Some girls had polo mint hair slides, the senior mistress jokily told the girls to pop them in their mouth and come back with a hair grip, She wasn't normally that pleasant, she was evil but she needed the choristers. For some reason she had the job of how the choir...
  11. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    Sorry the Mac keeps changing things when I send stuff. Second word school should read shoes. We stood out but we never won anything , second place maybe. Great fun though. No one was allowed to wear make up to school unlike now, long hair was tied up, with navy or blue ribbon, nothing else, no...
  12. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    Me ex Hong Kong colleague was a very poor child, they were many, they loved their school shoes and uniform bt they all came off and they went barefoot at home. Her children now grown up thought they were just stories. She told me all this when they found a UXB in Coventry City Centre...
  13. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    I was I the school choir we had to wear black polished school when we performed, and the girls had to white ankle socks, the big girls looked stupid though.
  14. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    The butcher thought I was a girl. I had a balaclava on.
  15. I Am Nico

    Birmingham in 1960s

    Well I wear them. I need to I have the air circling, see kilt post
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