Higher Grade / Stevenston High ???

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With the De-lux opposite
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Meekan,

If you tell us that you think that might be your faither walking up New Street, I'll burst a gasket! :wink:
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Naw Penny
but I think sumbuddy's borrowed his jaiket and bunnet :lol: :lol:
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Found this photo of the higher grade.

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Hello Bobby.
Could you tell my Robert when the Higher Grade lost the Tower
above the head masters room. it is flat in the photo.
Robert remembers says it was there when he left in 1951.
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When did it become Stevenston Junior Secondary School? Was it always known as the Higher Grade before that? Wasn't it a primary school for years and then became both that and a secondary school too? We were the second year of "O" level students, so maybe it became Stevenston High around 1963. Or maybe students could get their "lowers" there before going off to Ardrossan Academy for their "Highers". My brother was two years ahead of me, but I can't remember if he attained the "lowers" at Stevenston and then his "Highers" at the Academy.

As for the brown knickers - it was OK when you were a kid, but once you got to be a teenager it could be embarrassing at certain times of the month. But they did give us "nice" brown skirts for hockey. And if you remember, it was rare to take gym with the boys. In those days that was segregated. And isn't it surprising that being brought up in such a straight-laced era, that nobody turned a hair at these young lassies running around in their underwear? There would be an uproar today if a school suggested that was the required garb!!

But those were simpler times. What did you wee Catholic lassies wear for gym?

Isn't it great to look back at all this stuff?
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At St. John's I think we wore shorts, although I can't really remember organised sports - at St. Mike's we wore divided skirts. :roll:
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At Eglinton we wore navy blue knickers
for the netball and in full view of the
buses and pedestrian's :)
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Great Picture ...... thats it the day I started ..... The old cinema across the road ( forget the name) , my piano teacher Eddie Benny , used to play there before he became a piano teacher , fantastic photo ...Thanks , JIMMY GIBSON
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The picture house was the De-lux.
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us boys did watch the lassies playin netball in their knickers while we were dain woodwork

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On our first day at high school the whole class got the belt for leering at the girls in the playground with their gym kit on." Worth all the pain". :oops:
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