Tuesday 8 May 2012

The Blues


As for uniform, we all wore tabbed garters, in dark blue. In my time we had no blazers or caps I think. If I am right here, that might have been a hangover from wartime rationing. I do however remember, rationing or no, the very handsome Billings and Edmonds overcoat in a brown-and-fawn herring bone tweed with a dark chocolate collar. I can only remember wearing this sumptuous garment once at the beginning of each term, as we gathered at Waterloo to board our reserved coach of the all-Pullman Bournemouth Belle.

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