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Saints Days

BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
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When I was at primary school it was the custom to wear cub or brownie uniform on March 1st, March 17th, April 23rd and November 30th. I mentioned this to Mrs Cotto and she says that there was no such tradition in primary schools in her experience: Nottingham, N Wales and the Kent coast. She thinks it must have been a practice peculiar to Catholic schools in South London. Was it?
Rutland, England
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I don’t remember that in East London. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    No memories of any such thing in 60s Scotland
    Devon.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Nor me, in 60s Birmingham.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    Nor in East Lancashire.
    East Lancs
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I don't remember that from primary school in South London in the 70s. But then I was in Girls' Brigade, not Guides! My brothers were Scouts and there were church parades but I don't think they wore uniform to school (I can't be sure though, they were long out of primary school before I got there). 
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    My oldest boy was in Welsh costume today and his brother wore his Wales rugby top. He's too young to keep up with current national team form luckily :#  Tomorrow they will wear no uniform but only because the teachers are on strike again :|  Friday is World Book Day so they'll be back in costume again.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Maypole dancing is something I *do* remember from my sahf London 70s schooldays! I loved making the woven ribbon pattern all down the pole 🙂
    Funnily enough I don't remember May Queens but it must have happened, as they were going strong here until COVID. 
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    We didn’t get May Day off back then.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited March 2023
    Two photos from the 1930s of May Day celebrations in our village. The May Queen tradition with dancing round the flagpole continued until the late 1970s



    Betty (top picture, front left, bottom picture, front right) still lives in the village. Now in her 90s she is as sprightly and mentally acute as ever, a participant in all village activities and an honorary ‘village grandmother’. She’s inspirational.

    Three of the songs sung in the pageant



    On the topic of my original question - cub and brownie uniform on saints days - I did find one online reference to the practice and it implied it was more of a custom in church-run schools. Coincidentally, the school mentioned online was only three miles away from the school I attended in SE London.
    Rutland, England
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I was in the girl guides for a while and the church had a May queen every year, but neither was anything to do with school.
    My sister and I did used to get a new summer frock, cardi and sandals at Whitsun each year (worn all summer, then we'd have grown out of them). Mum made the frocks and Nan knitted the cardies. In those days it was cheaper to buy fabric and wool than ready-made clothes.
    @wild edges ,  what does a boy's welsh costume look like? I think I've only seen girls' ones.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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