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- Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:51 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Whole Holiday
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3960
Re: Whole Holiday
I have a feeling that the 'Whole Holiday' was Whit Monday (which of course moved around the calendar in the wake of Easter in those days) so the staff had to be given a day off in the middle of the summer term.
- Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:40 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: underwear
- Replies: 112
- Views: 23285
Re: underwear
I went into Bluecoat in September 1948 when I went up to LE. That was when the Bluecoat was restored to that form. To get straight to the bottom of this thread, the pants that went with it were designed to be attached by loops to the braces that held up the breeches, and the shirt therefore had to b...
- Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:22 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Michael Marland
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5744
Re: Michael Marland
I've only just caught up on this, sorry. The play was 'A Shoemaker's Holiday' by Thomas Dekker. I was going to be involved in this (in some insignificant capacity) - MM was going to take the play on tour to Holland! but RAF CCF Corps Camp clashed and I went on that instead. I do remember going to so...
- Sat May 24, 2008 8:44 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Automotive Anecdotes
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9274
Re: Automotive Anecdotes
Chinky Buck's car was a Ford CYT 180 which he painted grass green so that he could sneak round Big Side and see if anyone was slacking at cricket. He also used to take anything up to 14 boys in it up to the baths for a pre-breakfast swim in the summer, joining in himself.
- Fri May 02, 2008 7:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: What price a Leaver's Bible?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7484
Re: What price a Leaver's Bible?
I'm intrigued by the shape of the Housey shield on the front. This is the same as my 1954 bible but my father's 1932 one had a more ornate, rather Gothic shape to it. I supose Flecker must have changed it - WHEN? and WHY?
- Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:10 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Barnes Wallis at Brooklands
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1427
Barnes Wallis at Brooklands
I have just spent a very enjoyable day at Brooklands near Weybridge. There are many echoes of Barnes Wallis at Brooklands where he was based during the Second World War with Vickers. The most obvious is a Wellington bomber recently recovered from Loch Ness into which it plunged in 1940. Much of the ...
- Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:50 am
- Forum: Coleridge Photos
- Topic: Coleridge House Photos
- Replies: 73
- Views: 55041
Re: Coleridge House Photos
Just for the record, the matron in the earlier Col A photos is Miss Meek and the later one Mrs Riches, who had a boy in the school (Thorn A or B I think). Miss Meek's parting gift was a tiny silver cup to be raced for by Col A against Col B on Shrove Tuesday. Do this pancake race and the cup still p...
- Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:52 pm
- Forum: Prep Photos
- Topic: Prep B House Photos
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33580
Re: Prep B House Photos
Haircuts: When I arrived in the Prep in 1946 and for a while thereafter a creature called the Sheepshearer used to go round the houses cutting hair in the bootroom, short back and sides. It would not have occurred to us to ask for a particular style. He was replaced about 1950 by a pair of professio...
- Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:25 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: CH uniform worn by non members of school?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6083
Re: CH uniform worn by non members of school?
Corks (Rev WCM Cochrane) always wore a Broadie to hold his trousers up.
- Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:23 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: School Rules (pocket edition) (Horsham)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 10840
Re: School Rules (pocket edition) (Horsham)
Re the original thread, in Col B up to 1954 we had the rules in a typescript on a windowsill opposite Chinky Buck's study with, nearby, a framed Ordnance Survey map marked with no-go areas.
- Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:40 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Bullying & Abuse - Take II
- Replies: 132
- Views: 71518
In about 1949 in Col B bullying of a certain boy after lights out reached such a pitch that his glasses broke and cut his face. The hullabaloo was such that AH Buck came into the junior dormitory. I heard him say 'This is the culmination of years of disgusting bullying'. 1. Proves he knew all about ...
- Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:36 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Things you brought with you from home.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 9193
- Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:32 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Were 19th century Grecians known as the Upper 4th?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7263
Grecians
1. Is it possible that Seaman was expected to leave from the UF (sickness?) and a bible inscribed to him but was then reprieved and went on to become a Grecian? 2. 1946-54 forms were Prep (had three levels in it) 3rd Form (skipped by the clever) LF LE UF (start wearing Broadie) GE (usual School Cert...
- Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: The old Guildford Brighton line through CH
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1497
Guildford Line
This was a rare experience in its day - the dayroom deserted after the boys taking the Housey Special had left, and then carriages from some bygone era, the occasional fish van, and sometimes an unfortunate conjunction with Cranleigh breaking up on the same day.
- Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:25 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Old Blue top Tories
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4421
Old Blue top Tories
The Daily Telegraph has been running a list of the top 100 movers and shakers in David Chameleon's Tory party. #5 is Steve Hilton, Director of Strategy, who has previously voted Green. #12 is Stephan Shakespeare, chairing selection committee meetings. Presumably his qualification for this is his dem...