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- Tue Jul 12, 2022 8:11 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: How Much Kit Brought Down From Newgate Street Still Exists?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8171
Re: How Much Kit Brought Down From Newgate Street Still Exists?
As the Avenue enters the Quad, in both directions, it goes under an arch, which forms part of the Cloisters. The arch on the Lamb side was alleged to have been brought from Newgate St. I have certainly seen a photo somewhere of such an identical (or very similar) arch in the Newgate St complex. Does...
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 11:15 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Puke Fight!
- Replies: 60
- Views: 506693
Re: Puke Fight!
Following on my earlier post today, in view of others’ comments on the use of bedboards, to my recollection those very few monitors who did beat (in the 40s & 50s) only used a girdle. From posts on this Forum, CH obviously deteriorated after the 50s in terms of both degree of violence and sexual...
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 7:20 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Puke Fight!
- Replies: 60
- Views: 506693
Re: Puke Fight!
In the 40s and 50s we had some very laissez-faire housemasters (eg P Matthews and F Haselhust) and rarely beatings by monitors. But never, never was I conscious of anything remotely resembling the happenings described in this thread. I certainly feel that I was fully aware of things happening during...
- Thu Dec 10, 2015 2:09 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: What Keith Douglas got up to at CH
- Replies: 66
- Views: 15268
Re: What Keith Douglas got up to at CH
In the 50s there was a reasonable ‘service’ for school leavers who were uncertain in which field they should work. It was run by Dr G van Praagh, the Sen Science Master. He had plenty of brochures and was free with advice. It went further. I remember expressing an interest in Engineering and he sugg...
- Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:29 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Accents of Housey pupils
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4202
Accents of Housey pupils
This is a topic that seems not to have been treated – 'Accents of Housey pupils'. In my schooldays, in the middle of the last century, the range of new squits’ accents was very wide indeed. They often had pronounced regional accents. Many were from London. But the west of England and Midlands were a...
- Sun Apr 05, 2015 7:35 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Last night antics
- Replies: 39
- Views: 32773
Re: Last night antics
How virtuous we were in the 40s and 50s, compared with this lot!
- Sun Apr 05, 2015 7:17 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: CHLF
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10729
Re: CHLF
I came across this short but intriguing thread by chance and know nothing of the incident it describes. It made me recall that the politics of OBs is very varied. Our most successful former politician is, I suppose, Lord Michael Stewart, foreign secretary for Harold Wilson in a labour government. Ho...
- Thu Apr 02, 2015 9:37 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: The Art School
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5899
Re: The Art School
Benedict Rubbra’s portrait of Teddy was displayed in the Art School for quite a while. I studied it at length and remember being most impressed and envious too, for I had attempted a portrait without much success. Nell thought Teddy’s portrait was totally superb. But on looking at the BBC website, m...
- Fri Feb 27, 2015 4:48 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Victoria Cross for Old Blue
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4538
Re: Victoria Cross for Old Blue
In The Blue of November 1920 (Vol 48, no 1, page 3), there is an article reporting the Dedication of the Memorial on the Dining Hall’s southern wall to the 364 Old Blues who lost their lives in the First World War. The article notes that in that war, 2063 Blues served and they won 402 distinctions, ...
- Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:52 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Strange old man dressed in WW1 army gear / dog named lobster
- Replies: 143
- Views: 110424
Re: Strange old man dressed in WW1 army gear / dog named lobster
A while ago eucsgmrc asked if Kirby ever “adapted to transistorised and miniaturised communications”. He did. In the late 1950s there were supplied the first transistorised sets used by the Signals Section. They were “45” sets (I think) and were in a cube shaped container, with sides about 15 cm lon...
- Sun May 18, 2014 11:07 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Best Solo Voice in the Chapel Choir?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 21787
Re: Best Solo Voice in the Chapel Choir?
Around the time of Stuart Holland Korks had the excellent practice of putting a treble in Chapel Balcony to sing the opening solo of 'Once in Royal David's City", at the start of the Carol Service, to magnificent, and almost eerie, effect. I think that Stuart Holland was chosen for this and in ...
- Sat May 03, 2014 7:23 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH and the Armed Services
- Replies: 50
- Views: 18237
Re: CH and the Armed Services
If we include the Merchant Navy (and why not, for weren’t there armed Q Ships, about which I know very little?), then there were
- Michael Morris
- Peter Haines
at CH in the early 1950s and both in Barnes A.
- Michael Morris
- Peter Haines
at CH in the early 1950s and both in Barnes A.
- Fri Apr 11, 2014 1:23 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Politics at CH
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4658
Re: Politics at CH
I very vaguely remember a 'mock' house election, just before a general election, but not being a 'political-animal' at the time, I can't remember the outcome. Probably the 1959 election. I remember the same. The Labour Party got six votes, three from working class boys on scholarships (me and two '...
- Tue Feb 11, 2014 6:49 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Smoking by CH pupils
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5812
Re: Smoking by CH pupils
....and those notorious nicotine addicts Matthews, JH Page and Reggie Dean. But who else? Another chain smoker was Pongo Littlefield. But unlike others somehow he kept his fingers scrupulously clean. Fal Matthews, probably the most addicted of them all (and called ‘Mustapha fag’ by some), once rece...
- Fri Jan 17, 2014 6:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Films at CH Horsham
- Replies: 34
- Views: 10473
Films at CH Horsham
The last two postings on the ‘Roy Terry’ thread (partly on films shown at Horsham) revived so many memories for me that I feel Films deserve their own thread, so here goes. What about starting with a list? I remember some of those already mentioned (‘Lost Horizons’, ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’...