Pull your socks up, constable!

[OldBobby]

Whilst clearing the loft I found some old newspapers lining some boxes and one article caught my eye. It was from the Kilburn Times dated 1982 and it made me smile.

PULL YOUR SOCKS UP, CONSTABLE!

Police chiefs at Hendon training college have told the Metropolitan Police’s new recruits to pull up their socks...literally!

It seems that the new fashion craze for men to wear ‘trainer socks’ has found it’s way into the police force - and bosses are less than impressed.

A number of the Met’s finest young officers have been found displaying - or rather, not displaying - their new-style socks and senior officers have decided to clamp down on the trend.

A source from Hendon said, “Not only do these trainer socks look unprofessional on a uniformed officer, in all honesty, they look ridiculous too. A couple of constables were pulled up because it looked as if they weren’t wearing any socks at all.”

It looks like, “pull your socks up, lad” is taking on a slightly different meaning for the newly qualified police officers!


How times change, eh? I suspect they’ve got bigger fish to fry nowadays.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

You an ex copper so what’s it like to pull ya socks up?

 

[OldBobby]

You an ex copper so what’s it like to pull ya socks up?

Boots took away the need to worry about socks!

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Boots took away the need to worry about socks!

Can you take a pic of the page? Upload it so we can read it please if you don’t mind?

 

[OldBobby]

Can you take a pic of the page? Upload it so we can read it please if you don’t mind?

It was an old piece of newspaper. I wasn’t collating a scrapbook!

 

[Deleted member 77746]

It was an old piece of newspaper. I wasn’t collating a scrapbook!

You could take a photo though surely?

 

[OldBobby]

You could take a photo though surely?

I don’t want to prolong a somewhat pointless debate but why would you want to see a scrunched up, faded, yellowing newspaper cutting that says exactly what I wrote?

Plus the fact that I haven’t a clue how to post photos on here!!

 

[Angilion]

I don’t want to prolong a somewhat pointless debate but why would you want to see a scrunched up, faded, yellowing newspaper cutting that says exactly what I wrote?

Plus the fact that I haven’t a clue how to post photos on here!!

You can't, not directly. You have to host them on an image storage service and put a link to the image you uploaded in a post here rather than the image itself. Imgur is one that works well and is free to use.

I'm not saying that you should do it for the newspaper in this case, just letting you know how it's done in case you want to do it at some point in the future. It's a bit of a faff, but it works well enough.

 

[OldBobby]

You can't, not directly. You have to host them on an image storage service and put a link to the image you uploaded in a post here rather than the image itself. Imgur is one that works well and is free to use.

I'm not saying that you should do it for the newspaper in this case, just letting you know how it's done in case you want to do it at some point in the future. It's a bit of a faff, but it works well enough.

Thanks.

I definitely won’t be posting a copy of the newspaper cutting, then!!

 

[Derek W]

Can you take a pic of the page? Upload it so we can read it please if you don’t mind?

I understand it might be difficult to upload it.

Spoiler: The reason

It's from the 'Things that didn't happen Times'

 

[Deleted member 77746]

I'm good at finding things on the web and I can't find anything about "Kilburn Times dated 1982" about police and socks. Not to say it doesn't exist though but a photo would be nice.