Pumps at Primary School.

[battyrat]

Re: Pumps at Primary School.

We used to call them daps.Even had my old blue home made dap bag to carry them in.It was basically a blue sack type thing with a draw string at the top.Always used to get the odd very sticky sweet stuck in the bottom of it,as well as a few passengers like toy soldiers,cars,etc.I think I may of even kept my school pencils in there as at Primary school our workbooks were kept in class as we did not need to move around like our secondary school.

They were very thin on the bottom and when we jumped off the wooden horse in PE you could really feel the vibration.We used to move around the hall to music trying to scrape the bottom of the daps against the highly polished wooden floor trying to make a squeek.

Thinking about it why did the wooden parketry floor smell like old socks when it was freshly polished?(Sorry just remembering something else sort of interrelated there).

[escorteclipse1990]

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[QUOTE=Heather74;162835]We always called them pumps around here. They have that rubbery/slightly fishy smell that hit you in the face every time you opened your drawstring P.E bag.
I remember some kids trying to make black rubber skid marks on the wooden school hall floor!
They are still on my kids school P.E kit list today, but in the shops they are indeed sold as plimsolls.
The white ones were always worn by girls in dance troupes and had to be painted with white stuff to keep them perfect.[/QUOTE

I remember my mum painting my sisters white pumps, the white stuff came in a plastic bottle with a sponge at the top, it did have a smell to it too. I am sure you can still get it.

[escorteclipse1990]

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We always called them plimsolls when I was in junior school in the early 70s. I was a bit perplexed years later when I heard people called them 'pumps'. But yes, the black elasticated variety were the ones we had.

Yes i remember these very well. They where called pumps here in West Lancashire/Merseyside area. I wonder who made them, and can you still get them in this style?

[amethyst]

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I Remember having a pair of slip ons pumps in primary for gym in black.

In comprehensive we had white ones and you had this stuff in a tube to keep them looking white

[spuggybridge]

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Yes i remember these very well. They where called pumps here in West Lancashire/Merseyside area. I wonder who made them, and can you still get them in this style?

Bloody hell this brought back memories, I seem to think I had some in white and had to keep re-whitening them with that old marker pen style whitener

[Happymama]

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Plimmies were the business for making ice slides, though. You'd go back in with soaking feet that would still be wet when you went home, and you'd change your shoes, with wet socks, so the blue dye would soak into your socks on the way home.

They gave me a pair of the white lace up ones when I joined up. I looked at em and said no.