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When we went to school you were not allowed to wear long trousers until you reached the age of 14, short trousers were the normal thing to wear, and when your backside became thread bare you would have the hole covered up with what we called ‘our jimmy and his magic patch’, named from one of the comics (Dandy or The Beano, not sure which). Nothing like kids of today, who have patches sewn on thinking its ‘cool’ - as they call themselves. If your patch came adrift slightly, the other lads would delight in pulling it off so your bare backside could be seen, laughing at your predicament. No underpants then, you had to sit in school until a repair could be done on them.

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