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- Sat Oct 07, 2023 8:49 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: On this day 70 years ago
- Replies: 16
- Views: 96648
Re: On this day 70 years ago
Indigenous tribal societies I believe have a "rite of passage" ordeal. Well mine wasn't quite so rugged. When the Housey Special disgorged me into Victoria station in July 1960 I took off down Vauxhall Bridge Road to the very first Picasso retrospective which was showing at the old Tate (b...
- Fri Oct 06, 2023 8:01 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: On this day 70 years ago
- Replies: 16
- Views: 96648
Re: On this day 70 years ago
Reading Ruth's sad story it seems that the girls got the bum's rush. At CH Horsham, even in the1950s, we had some cultural capital (as it's called). There were choirs and an orchestra, a drama society who put on a full Shakespeare play every year (I can still remember Mr Keep explaining The Merchant...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 8:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: On this day 70 years ago
- Replies: 16
- Views: 96648
Re: On this day 70 years ago
I arrived in the same intake as Sejintenej in September 1952. He to Prep A, me to Prep B. All I remember is that I don't remember much. For the first few weeks it was all a blank. I'm told by psychologists who have studied boarding school education that this is quite common. The effect of being thru...
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 8:53 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Photographs that shaped the urban landscape
- Replies: 5
- Views: 22440
Re: Photographs that shaped the urban landscape
Some of the pics are by Tony Ray-Jones who was contemporary with me in Col B in the 1950s. He went on to be a renowned social documentary photographer and died tragically young.
- Mon Aug 28, 2023 7:11 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
- Replies: 24
- Views: 132618
Re: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
In my day, the 1950s, we were certainly kept busy, with compulsory games as well. So we were knackered physically and mentally. This led to a lively discussion between the late Dr Scuffil and myself as to whether this was deliberate to keep our minds off sex, which then would have been of the homose...
- Sun Aug 27, 2023 3:35 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
- Replies: 24
- Views: 132618
Re: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
I knew that I'd seen it called Christ's in some instance and, looking it up, it turned out to be by no less than Charles Lamb in an essay called Poor Relations. "Poor W_ was of my own standing at Christ's, a fine classic and a youth of promise. Many a quarrel have I had with him, when we were r...
- Mon Aug 14, 2023 1:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Freaky returns to Sussex (by the sea)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 17313
Re: Freaky returns to Sussex (by the sea)
The Freakster has made it to eighty,
An age that appears quite weighty.
He survived it at Housey
Where the food was quite lousy
But wouldn't go back again matey.
An age that appears quite weighty.
He survived it at Housey
Where the food was quite lousy
But wouldn't go back again matey.
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 10:46 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: teaching relevance in later life
- Replies: 24
- Views: 59077
Re: teaching relevance in later life
Thinking back to history lessons under Chern, I do wonder whether we were especially privileged. Christ's Hospital in the 1950s would surely have followed the elite boarding school pattern of bigging up our empire (remains of which were still floating about). But although we were taught about Clive ...
- Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Freaky returns to Sussex (by the sea)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 17313
Freaky returns to Sussex (by the sea)
Yesterday I turned 80. The day before, Mick Jagger (and Katherine's brother P Hills), turned 80. What have we learned? Well I'm surprised that the private schools and the boarding schools are still with us. When John Le Carre ran away from Sherborne during the war he said that he thought that after ...
- Sat Jul 01, 2023 1:00 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Freaky in the FT
- Replies: 38
- Views: 45845
Re: Freaky in the FT
The Freakster rides again, after a long lay-off. My letter in today's Weekend FT is titled: "Home truths about the capital's unaffordability". About how the Thatcher/Lawson housing ideology has merely made housing (rented or bought) more expensive and left less money in people's pockets to...
- Sun May 07, 2023 10:03 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH and slavery
- Replies: 15
- Views: 59192
Re: CH and slavery
This anti-semitism thing is a bit of a minefield. While in no way wanting to racially profile people (except in jest) it is a fact that the Jews do seem to have a strong ethnicity which people seem to notice (unlike for instance the Belgians, the Sudanese, or indeed the English).There's an old sayin...
- Sat May 06, 2023 9:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Strange CH connection with Coronation
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3625
Re: Strange CH connection with Coronation
Does anyone else have an actual memory of the 1953 coronation? I was in the old Prep B at the time. We were given a few days holiday. I remember my dad picking me up from Victoria station the day before the ceremony and walking back along the Mall where people were already camping out. We'd been inv...
- Fri May 05, 2023 8:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH and slavery
- Replies: 15
- Views: 59192
CH and slavery
Come on guys! Has no-one seen the Guardian's exposure of CH benefitting from slavery? Connections with Edward Colston? Dear oh dear! Are we all Daily Mail readers? Doesn't anyone read a proper newspaper?
- Sun Feb 05, 2023 8:53 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: staff accommodation
- Replies: 47
- Views: 45883
Re: staff accommodation
Kit invested in a bicycle, in his case with a pedal on just one side to accommodate his wooden leg (Sejintenej will attest to this), while Kirby cycled around with the much-loved Chlorine draped around his neck when she was finally unable to hobble after her master.
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:10 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH role in Coronation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6676
Re: CH role in Coronation
For a 21st century king
There should be an absence of bling.
Away with the canopy
And all other panoply,
They're clearly no longer the thing.
There should be an absence of bling.
Away with the canopy
And all other panoply,
They're clearly no longer the thing.