Boys and girls in each school played in the same playground, but of course that’s not to say that they often played together. Even amidst the hedonistic excesses of our little working class town some things never changed!
However for the last year of Junior School (two years in my case due to my birth date and the 11+ regulations) the A stream class was out-stationed in splendid isolation in a public building with its own gardens and hard surfaced recreation area a few minutes walk from the school. Very much our own little domain of around 50 children, and relations between boys and girls there did get rather more relaxed