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- Sat Feb 19, 2022 1:51 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Puke Fight!
- Replies: 60
- Views: 480910
Re: Puke Fight!
As a matter of historical interest, occasional public no-holds barred fights between individuals is a long-standing Housie tradition and there are records of such fights at Newgate Street in the 1850s when two individuals would agree to fight over some cause. The meeting-place was always at the foot...
- Sun Feb 06, 2022 9:09 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Films at CH, 1956-1960
- Replies: 17
- Views: 45943
Re: Films at CH, 1956-1960
My time at Housie was 1949-55 and we certainly saw films then, but in three venues. The first was in Horsham when the whole school marched to a cinema in the town to see a very recent film. I can certainly recall seeing two - the Coronation film and on another occasion Scott of the Antarctic. I thin...
- Mon Jan 31, 2022 1:00 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: REAR-ADMIRAL TOM BRADBURY, CB, OLD BLUE
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3702
REAR-ADMIRAL TOM BRADBURY, CB, OLD BLUE
Interesting obit in today's (30 Jan 2022) Daily Telegraph on Tom Bradbury (LaA 34-39). Brought up in Walworth, his grandfather was a horse tram driver, his father a labourer and his mother a pickled onion seller. He won an LCC scholarship to C.H. and the rest was a steady rise to the top of his prof...
- Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:21 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Freaky in the FT
- Replies: 38
- Views: 40519
Re: Freaky in the FT
I posted: " That is both very unpleasant and uncalled for. If you cannot do better than that, I suggest that you keep your opinions to yourself ." I was not offended by what Rockfreak wrote - it was par for the course where he is concerned. What I was endeavouring to suggest was that it is...
- Sat Nov 27, 2021 10:46 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Freaky in the FT
- Replies: 38
- Views: 40519
Re: Freaky in the FT
Rockfreak,
That is both very unpleasant and uncalled for. If you cannot do better than that, I suggest that you keep your opinions to yourself.
David
That is both very unpleasant and uncalled for. If you cannot do better than that, I suggest that you keep your opinions to yourself.
David
- Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Housey Soap
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1494
Re: Housey Soap
" Not sure about the answer to the question - but I am sure the soap has a more reputable origin." The statement that the soap was made at Housie is correct - at least in the late 40s/early '50s. It came from a building beyond the gymnasium and was an ecologically sound product from waste ...
- Sat Nov 20, 2021 11:13 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
- Replies: 53
- Views: 36087
Re: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
Otter says: " I didn't realise there was originally a different meaning of the term "non-foundationer". I always understood it to mean a pupil who had a parent (or sometimes two) as a member of staff, and so slept at their own home on-site and did not board. " The term 'non-found...
- Wed Nov 17, 2021 8:46 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
- Replies: 53
- Views: 36087
Re: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
rockfreak wrote: Tue Nov 16, 2021 8:24 pm: " I had no idea that Edward Colston was an old boy. They keep quiet about that one. " I don't know who is meant by 'they.' The fact that Colston was a 'non-foundationer' has been known since about 1650 and no attempt has ever been made to hide it....
- Tue Nov 02, 2021 1:39 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Ben Breakwell convicted of abuse
- Replies: 109
- Views: 233621
Re: Ben Breakwell convicted of abuse
Totterdell writes: " ...like you I feel so sorry for the family. This takes me back to the Martin trial where it became clear that the family knew nothing... I think that at times we forget the consequences on others of the actions taken. " I completely endorse this. As an author I was app...
- Sun Sep 26, 2021 6:32 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Roger Allam in Radio Times
- Replies: 62
- Views: 32644
Re: Roger Allam in Radio Times
Have read the article. The way I read it, he recalls rather more positives than negatives about CH, although I accept that six masters sent to prison is a definite negative. Like John Hopgood I have no recollection whatsoever of having to address senior boys as 'sir'. Certainly not in Lamb 1949-55, ...
- Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:37 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: ANOTHER FAMOUS BUT FORGOTTEN OLD BLUE
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1171
ANOTHER FAMOUS BUT FORGOTTEN OLD BLUE
Current media reports concern the demolition of the Dorman Long tower at Middlesborough. That once world-famous steel firm was co-founded by an Old Blue Sir Arthur John Dorman, 1st Baronet, KBE (August 1848 – February 1931) (CH 1856-63). His greatest and most enduring monument, and one in which CH s...
- Sat Sep 04, 2021 4:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Bursaries Shmursaries
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3915
Re: Bursaries Shmursaries
" I never met nor knew the name of "my" governor until the Office told me long after her death. From what they told me I have worked out how she was "found" and where the money came from ." I was 'presented' by the RMS (father in RN) so cannot speak from personal experi...
- Fri Sep 03, 2021 7:11 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Bursaries Shmursaries
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3915
Re: Bursaries Shmursaries
" I think it is the Webb presentations which are based in Newbury ..." I think that you may be mistaken and that what you are really referring to is the West's Gift which covers the Reading area and, for reasons I have never understood, Twickenham. . It has been going since the 17th centur...
- Thu Sep 02, 2021 8:10 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Bursaries Shmursaries
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3915
Re: Bursaries Shmursaries
"We know about Barnes Wallis and the Royal Mathematical School, but can CH match any of these other schools for Bizarre Bursaries?" First, there are no bursaries associated with the Royal Mathematical School. There were at one time, but it stopped sometime in the middle of the Nineteenth ...
- Mon Aug 30, 2021 10:08 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Old Blue Summer Visit 2021
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1206
Re: Old Blue Summer Visit 2021
Katharine, I accept that Hertford girls do not have a physical school to return to. But the boys of the pre-1902 period did not have a school to return to either, after the move to Horsham. These things happen. I also hope that you do not feel that Hertford has been forgotten. I know of one male Old...