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- Sat Jan 04, 2014 1:55 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: frieze in dayroom of infirmary
- Replies: 48
- Views: 13917
Re: frieze in dayroom of infirmary
This leads me to further memories as I spent almost one term living in! There was a European refugee acting as a cleaner-I think she was German,who had been an opera singer.She had a penchant for demonstrating her vocal powers to any boy in range,but sadly her mellifluous tones had deserted her and ...
- Fri Jan 03, 2014 10:58 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: frieze in dayroom of infirmary
- Replies: 48
- Views: 13917
Re: frieze in dayroom of infirmary
I remember it. Most entertaining but cannot remember the subject unless it was a country scene.Were windmills pictured?
- Thu Nov 28, 2013 4:59 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Education of CH Masters
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4317
Re: Education of CH Masters
J.H.Page Canford.
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- Mon Nov 11, 2013 4:30 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Buglers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6264
Re: Buglers
I have a memory of taking a bugle to CCF Camp at Shorncliffe where band members were required to perform daily calls. Or is it my imagination based on another school which took their pathetic bugle band on parade. Epsom comes to mind. By the way how many calls require top C-even trumpet emboucheres ...
- Sun Nov 10, 2013 4:22 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Buglers
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6264
Re: Buglers
Buglers played on many evenings for tea parade between 1948 and 1955. We used to take it in turns. Francis Warner and I think one of the Ind brothers were particularly adept at swinging some of the calls. I was occasionally allowed to join them on trumpet. The mouth- piece on a bugle is most uncomfo...
- Fri May 03, 2013 7:01 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Roy Edwin Terry
- Replies: 46
- Views: 21428
Re: Roy Edwin Terry
Ref the jazz embargo. I was once accused by Mr Bailey of trying to emulate Humph in the back row of the band. We were playing a straight version of Alford's Thin Red Line but Humph had just recorded a trad version. So I tried! It would be 1954 I think. JHGS
- Wed May 01, 2013 6:11 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Roy Edwin Terry
- Replies: 46
- Views: 21428
Re: Roy Edwin Terry
You're quite correct about the jazz embargo. My Sid Phillips arrangements disappeared from my music locker along with some Jelly Roll Morton records. I practised Winifred Attwell boogie left hand for hours whilst keeping an eye out for the Classical thought police. As I remember John Austin Th.B pla...
- Sun Apr 28, 2013 5:46 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Roy Edwin Terry
- Replies: 46
- Views: 21428
Roy Edwin Terry
Does anyone remember Roy Terry? He tried to teach me piano and organ. As I remember he limped ,had more hair than would be acceptable in a schoolmaster on Flecker's staff but wore the finest pair of black rimmed spectacles I had seen until the advent of Hank Marvin. However he played a fine swing pi...
- Sun Apr 21, 2013 10:34 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH as an educational facility for West Sussex C.C.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6088
Re: CH as an educational facility for West Sussex C.C.
Thank you for your comments. I note that your figures show that 80% of pupils live within the magic circle of south- east and south- west home counties. Surely this supports my original premise that the affluent middle classes are benefitting from subsidised education at the expense of the those liv...
- Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:29 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH as an educational facility for West Sussex C.C.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6088
CH as an educational facility for West Sussex C.C.
Does the Foundation receive enhanced fees from the West Sussex local authority for educating their children? Living up in the far north, I am under the impression that Sussex children do rather well from the Foundation and that the school has deteriorated into a first class facility for the Sussex m...
- Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:56 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: 50 years ago, in the snow.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11057
Re: 50 years ago, in the snow.
I remember skating on Doctors Lake. One of the housemasters ?Archbold used to practice "edges" because he spent holidays inthe Cantons.
- Thu Nov 08, 2012 1:26 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Let's have a proper blokes' discussion about rugby
- Replies: 52
- Views: 12831
Re: Let's have a proper blokes' discussion about rugby
If Joe Launchbury keeps improving,Housey will have its first Rugby World Cup representative. What a great performance at the Weekend. JHGS Hexham Northumberland.
- Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:06 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Out Of Bounds signs.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5922
Re: Out Of Bounds signs.
The generator house was a small brick built structure erected adjacent to the dam at the outlet of the lake. obviously used to generate power with a hydraulic dynamo-all the rage these days- for the Drs House at that time occupied by Mr Newberry. Further to the enquiry about Shelley Wood and access ...
- Mon Mar 12, 2012 2:47 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Out Of Bounds signs.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5922
Re: Out Of Bounds signs.
Until 1955,when I left, The Drs Lake was always in bounds. Quite a number of us used to fish for carp. It was difficult fishing so we moved to the duckpond ! Very much easier. The generator house at the lake was a popular smoking spot whilst air pistols were not unknown.
- Wed Nov 09, 2011 6:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Fancy an old desk?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6126
Re: Fancy an old desk?
With ref to M Sergeant I understood, in the early fifties, that Sergeant was one of three French brothers who were all notable athlets. It was rumoured that our Sergeant had been in the French diving team for the Olympics. He certainly judged the inter-school matches from time to time. In addition h...