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- Thu Mar 11, 2021 12:07 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Flecker’s Banning of some Comics
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9326
Flecker’s Banning of some Comics
I was intrigued by the ban on Rock Music , ineffectually imposed by Clarence Seaman at CH in the late 50s. I’ve never seen any mention in this Forum, or anywhere else, of a similar ban imposed by HLO Flecker, Seaman’s predecessor as HM, in the late 40s. This was the banning of American comics . In t...
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:32 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Pongo - Eric Littlefield
- Replies: 34
- Views: 20279
Re: Pongo - Eric Littlefield
Since we are now talking of Phal Matthews, I can add that the fire-in-a-lab-desk-drawer episode, mentioned by dsm, which occurred at the end of Phal’s teaching career, could very well have also happened anytime in the 1950s. In spite of all his clear failings his teaching had one excellent character...
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 9:30 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Pocket money, Nausea and more
- Replies: 21
- Views: 16511
Pocket money, Nausea and more
Last night I suffered from nausea and the resulting few hours’ insomnia jogged memories of a house rule in Lamb A, around 1950, stating that if a boy vomited in the house and another cleaned up the mess, then the cleaner would be paid 1/- (that's 5p the normal weekly pocket money for a junior, or it...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 6:18 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: GRACE
- Replies: 71
- Views: 39464
Re: GRACE
I never knew the Court Room was where Junior Houses ate, for Mr Ed wrote, There was of course the Court Room, the small dining room at the side of the Dining Hall, where in my time, two junior houses were shoved This is surprising, for surely it would be more convenient to have everyone together in ...
- Thu Jun 25, 2020 7:42 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH, Degrees and PPE (not the Coronavirus sort)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 14130
Re: CH, Degrees and PPE (not the Coronavirus sort)
Here is one thing in ‘Phallic’ Matthews’ defence (although I acknowledge that everything said about him so far on this Forum is true). His method of teaching was in effect solely to dictate notes and do hardly anything else. But these notes were excellent. If one spent any effort at all on chemistry...
- Fri May 15, 2020 3:59 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: The CCF Signals Section
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8820
Re: The CCF Signals Section
It’s obvious that the strange Kirby is affectionately remembered by those boys who have contributed to this thread. But the reverse is also true. Some disliked him intensely. One such boasted that whenever he saw Kirby he would bawl out, “Good morning, Sir!” just for the pleasure of knowing there wo...
- Wed Apr 29, 2020 8:46 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Dining hall dimensions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6824
Re: Dining hall dimensions
To add further to the statements that the Dining Hall is the first or second largest unsupported roof in the UK, I remember hearing (and cannot give the source, having forgotten it) that it is the second largest wooden unsupported roof in the UK. The largest is apparently Westminster Hall (size 73.2...
- Tue Feb 25, 2020 6:25 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Writing letters home
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10678
Re: Writing letters home
Yes, I clearly remember the weekly letter writing in the 50s. For my house it was done after morning chapel on Sundays. There was no compulsion however and most of course complied. If one finished early one read. Sometimes the housemaster came in with blank envelopes which had to be addressed to the...
- Tue Sep 24, 2019 6:45 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Bursaries Shmursaries
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7336
Re: Bursaries Shmursaries
At its inception the NHS was intentionally structured so that almost all the Doctors and most others who participated to provide care for the patients were independently employed and NOT state employees. This was a policy strongly pushed by Aneurin Bevan, the left wing Minister of Health. He was a v...
- Sun Jun 30, 2019 8:24 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: The Red Dean and CH
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1923
The Red Dean and CH
I have just read a biography* of the V Rev Hewlett Johnson (1874-1966, Dean of Canterbury and a very voluble, much quoted Communist “mascot" and sympathiser, hence called "The Red Dean"). Although there are no references to CH in the book, his daughter Kezia became Mrs Noel-Paton. Was...
- Tue Nov 06, 2018 4:15 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Teaching staff
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13552
Re: Teaching staff
I first saw a computer in 1956. This is not simply boasting and one-upmanship directed towards Dr Scuffil, for it resulted from a visit to the HQ of the Lyons Company, organised for science and maths grecians by the visionary Mr Edward Bullard, who accompanied us. His most unusual career and abiliti...
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 6:51 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Congratulations to this year's Grecians and their new Headmaster
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13144
Re: Congratulations to this year's Grecians and their new Headmaster
Impressive results indeed – all concerned are to be warmly congratulated.
But perhaps these results would be even more impressive if someone could give comparable results for comparable schools.
But perhaps these results would be even more impressive if someone could give comparable results for comparable schools.
- Fri Jun 22, 2018 4:39 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Science teaching in the 50's
- Replies: 41
- Views: 28690
Re: Science teaching in the 50's
I agree that ‘doing’ usually increases ‘learning’ and ‘remembering,’ though some do have more highly developed auditory and/or visual memories. However the heuristic method at CH goes back far longer than to the 1950s. It was introduced when the school moved to Horsham in 1902. Then the four, spanki...
- Sat Jan 20, 2018 8:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Siegfried Sassoon & Dennis Silk
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2349
Siegfried Sassoon & Dennis Silk
I was reading some of Siegfried Sassoon’s works and looked him up in Wikipedia. There I was most surprised to see the following. For those interested the context is explained in the article. “One of his closest friends was the cricketer, Dennis Silk who later became Warden (headmaster) of Radley Col...
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 4:25 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Less flamboyant CH teachers
- Replies: 37
- Views: 29219
Re: Less flamboyant CH teachers
More about Ian Sutherland: he was a pleasant young classics teacher and for a year or two in the fifties a junior housemaster of Barnes A, with EA Littlefield as senior housemaster. I imagine that they got on very well, since Littlefield’s passion was cricket. Sutherland left CH for Harrow School an...