Jody
Stubborn git
BTW, did you guys not have school formal dances, until you got this American import? That's just sad
Yes we did. Just not the excess thats required these days.
School Proms
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Yes we did. Just not the excess thats required these days.
martint235
Dog on a bike
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- Welling
Nope not at my school. We did have discos down the Bank Hall Miners Club which invariably ended in fighting, kissing or puking depending on which group of alcoholic ability and looks you belonged to.If we can call a concert a "prom" for historical reasons, then they can call a dance a "prom" for historical reasons.
BTW, did you guys not have school formal dances, until you got this American import? That's just sad
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
We had an end of year disco for the 4th, 5th & 6th form, in the assembly hall and another in the gym for the 1st - 3rd form. The school paid for Pegasus Mobile Disco to come (did half the dances in Norfolk) and the parents collected us at 9pm. I remember cans of pop, soggy sausage rolls and most people in jeans. Lots of sitting around the outside of the dance floor.If we can call a concert a "prom" for historical reasons, then they can call a dance a "prom" for historical reasons.
BTW, did you guys not have school formal dances, until you got this American import? That's just sad
The teachers would be the bouncers and would intervene if the snogging in the corners was getting a bit out of hand.
Can we take bets on which group you were in?
martint235
Dog on a bike
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- Welling
jefmcg
Guru
Omigod! I just remembered being invited by my brother's friend (who had a huge crush on me) to his school ball. He hired a horse and cart carriage to take me there. It was all rather embarrassing. This was long time ago, in Melbourne.
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BTW, did you guys not have school formal dances, until you got this American import? That's just sad
Not formal dances, no. I don't recall any sort of school leaving do. I do remember school discos when we were younger (early teens). Absolutely everyone wore jeans and a tee shirt, regardless of gender.
Sounds just like my school - the girls lines up on one side of the room and the boys on the other. The girls would make some tentative steps onto the dance floor and about 30 minutes later the boys would too. It was all about the last dance though.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
A couple of years ago an old school friend posted his daughter's prom pictures in FB... he'd hired a pink wrought iron Cinderella style horse drown carriage to deliver her to the prom, which was intended to match the blancmange of a dress he'd bought her... to me, it was a vile ensemble, the epitome of tastelessness, but that didn't stop 353 'likes' and god knows how many 'gorgeous' comments. 
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
No, and no informal ones eitherBTW, did you guys not have school formal dances, until you got this American import? That's just sad
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Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
School prom? You suddenly moved to America Martin?
jefmcg
Guru
Oh, found a photo of me ....
(wasn't a fan of chintz, excluding the chair behind me
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(wasn't a fan of chintz, excluding the chair behind me
)I'm just thankful that photo of the chair is in bw. Not sure my phone could cope otherwise.Oh, found a photo of me ....
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(wasn't a fan of chintz, excluding the chair behind me
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
So was I, and they hadn't yet imported them from the USA anyway.
Even if my family had not been too poor to splash out on that kind of thing, and proms had been a feature of school life in those days, I simply wouldn't have gone!
It was more like down to the local disco's rather than a school prom around that area in the 60's
Edit: Chadwell Heath...Seven Kings etc.
