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- Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:36 pm
- Forum: Barnes Photos
- Topic: Barnes House Photos
- Replies: 84
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- Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:31 pm
- Forum: Barnes Photos
- Topic: Barnes House Photos
- Replies: 84
- Views: 121833
- Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:14 pm
- Forum: Prep Photos
- Topic: Prep B House Photos
- Replies: 25
- Views: 32896
- Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:40 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: CH in the Forties
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4856
- Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:14 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Favourite teacher
- Replies: 240
- Views: 133804
- Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:11 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Favourite teacher
- Replies: 240
- Views: 133804
A note on some of the above: I remember the day Killer Fry got his nickname: as junior housemaster in ThorntonB he ferociously beat a boy (maybe two) who giggled during prayers. This was actually rather out of character. (He kept in his study a Japanese sword, surrendered to him by an officer of equ...
- Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:50 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Bullying & Abuse - Take II
- Replies: 132
- Views: 70227
CH in the 50s was pretty rough, but reading some of these items I get the impression that bullying as commonly understood was less prevalent. The peer pressure against it was enormous. What did make an enormous difference was the quality of the housemaster. There was little or no bullying in Thornto...
- Mon Nov 05, 2007 1:07 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: CH in the Forties
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4856
Chinky Buck was removed by Seaman, not Flecker, but the circumstances were otherwise as described above. Buck had been fined for being drunk and disorderly in London about 3 weeks earlier, an incident reported in the national press. It was put around for public consumption that this had something to...
- Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:42 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: House numbers
- Replies: 105
- Views: 41540
- Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:49 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Wikipedia's list of notable Old Blues
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4630
- Sun Nov 04, 2007 4:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Wikipedia's list of notable Old Blues
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4630
- Sun Nov 04, 2007 4:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Excuse my ignorance but....
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4268
In the mid-50s the forms went as follows: (III), LF, LE, UF, GE, Deputy Grecians, Grecians. There was also a V (after GE) for people mainly retaking O-level and not expected to stay on. Almost everyone started on the LF. I'm not sure why some people were put on the Third Form, which had only one str...
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Who Else Has Never Been Back to CH?
- Replies: 132
- Views: 33627
It seems to me that there are three reasons for going back to CH. 1) to see acquaintances (after 40+ years, this no longer applies to me) 2) to show wives and children (I've done this) 3) pure nostalgia As to (3) so much has physically changed that it doesn't really work. When I'm in the area, thoug...
- Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:41 pm
- Forum: Looking for....
- Topic: Roger Martin [STILL LOOKING...]
- Replies: 12
- Views: 14198
A curious memory of Roger Martin. He left (I think) in 1955. But he returned the following year on Passion Sunday to stage, with Corks, an evening processional St John Passion in a darkened chapel, for which I, and about 20 other first years, was dragged in to hold candles for the choir to sing by. ...
- Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:02 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Olfactory Memories of CH
- Replies: 59
- Views: 17278
Very occasionally I catch a whiff of the Horsham dining hall ca. 1960. It is almost unique. A curious olfactory experience was provided when Pat Cullen succeeded John Page as housemaster of Thornton B. The smell of stale cigarette smoke was replaced by an altogether more pleasant aroma of freshly-gr...