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by postwarblue
Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:51 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Whole Holiday
Replies: 15
Views: 3803

Re: Whole Holiday

I have a feeling that the 'Whole Holiday' was Whit Monday (which of course moved around the calendar in the wake of Easter in those days) so the staff had to be given a day off in the middle of the summer term.
by postwarblue
Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:40 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: underwear
Replies: 112
Views: 22124

Re: underwear

I went into Bluecoat in September 1948 when I went up to LE. That was when the Bluecoat was restored to that form. To get straight to the bottom of this thread, the pants that went with it were designed to be attached by loops to the braces that held up the breeches, and the shirt therefore had to b...
by postwarblue
Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:22 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Michael Marland
Replies: 6
Views: 5173

Re: Michael Marland

I've only just caught up on this, sorry. The play was 'A Shoemaker's Holiday' by Thomas Dekker. I was going to be involved in this (in some insignificant capacity) - MM was going to take the play on tour to Holland! but RAF CCF Corps Camp clashed and I went on that instead. I do remember going to so...
by postwarblue
Sat May 24, 2008 8:44 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Automotive Anecdotes
Replies: 25
Views: 9038

Re: Automotive Anecdotes

Chinky Buck's car was a Ford CYT 180 which he painted grass green so that he could sneak round Big Side and see if anyone was slacking at cricket. He also used to take anything up to 14 boys in it up to the baths for a pre-breakfast swim in the summer, joining in himself.
by postwarblue
Fri May 02, 2008 7:12 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: What price a Leaver's Bible?
Replies: 40
Views: 7397

Re: What price a Leaver's Bible?

I'm intrigued by the shape of the Housey shield on the front. This is the same as my 1954 bible but my father's 1932 one had a more ornate, rather Gothic shape to it. I supose Flecker must have changed it - WHEN? and WHY?
by postwarblue
Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:10 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Barnes Wallis at Brooklands
Replies: 0
Views: 1388

Barnes Wallis at Brooklands

I have just spent a very enjoyable day at Brooklands near Weybridge. There are many echoes of Barnes Wallis at Brooklands where he was based during the Second World War with Vickers. The most obvious is a Wellington bomber recently recovered from Loch Ness into which it plunged in 1940. Much of the ...
by postwarblue
Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:50 am
Forum: Coleridge Photos
Topic: Coleridge House Photos
Replies: 73
Views: 43002

Re: Coleridge House Photos

Just for the record, the matron in the earlier Col A photos is Miss Meek and the later one Mrs Riches, who had a boy in the school (Thorn A or B I think). Miss Meek's parting gift was a tiny silver cup to be raced for by Col A against Col B on Shrove Tuesday. Do this pancake race and the cup still p...
by postwarblue
Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:52 pm
Forum: Prep Photos
Topic: Prep B House Photos
Replies: 25
Views: 25513

Re: Prep B House Photos

Haircuts: When I arrived in the Prep in 1946 and for a while thereafter a creature called the Sheepshearer used to go round the houses cutting hair in the bootroom, short back and sides. It would not have occurred to us to ask for a particular style. He was replaced about 1950 by a pair of professio...
by postwarblue
Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:25 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: CH uniform worn by non members of school?
Replies: 9
Views: 5936

Re: CH uniform worn by non members of school?

Corks (Rev WCM Cochrane) always wore a Broadie to hold his trousers up.
by postwarblue
Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:23 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: School Rules (pocket edition) (Horsham)
Replies: 38
Views: 10347

Re: School Rules (pocket edition) (Horsham)

Re the original thread, in Col B up to 1954 we had the rules in a typescript on a windowsill opposite Chinky Buck's study with, nearby, a framed Ordnance Survey map marked with no-go areas.
by postwarblue
Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:40 am
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Bullying & Abuse - Take II
Replies: 132
Views: 55792

In about 1949 in Col B bullying of a certain boy after lights out reached such a pitch that his glasses broke and cut his face. The hullabaloo was such that AH Buck came into the junior dormitory. I heard him say 'This is the culmination of years of disgusting bullying'. 1. Proves he knew all about ...
by postwarblue
Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:36 am
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Things you brought with you from home.
Replies: 30
Views: 8960

Thread has reminded me of battery-powered internal lights in one's locker worked by a switch made of drawing pins.

Illuminated v chaste pic of 16 yr old starlet called Joan Collins.
by postwarblue
Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:32 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Were 19th century Grecians known as the Upper 4th?
Replies: 19
Views: 7181

Grecians

1. Is it possible that Seaman was expected to leave from the UF (sickness?) and a bible inscribed to him but was then reprieved and went on to become a Grecian? 2. 1946-54 forms were Prep (had three levels in it) 3rd Form (skipped by the clever) LF LE UF (start wearing Broadie) GE (usual School Cert...
by postwarblue
Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:41 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: The old Guildford Brighton line through CH
Replies: 3
Views: 1478

Guildford Line

This was a rare experience in its day - the dayroom deserted after the boys taking the Housey Special had left, and then carriages from some bygone era, the occasional fish van, and sometimes an unfortunate conjunction with Cranleigh breaking up on the same day.
by postwarblue
Wed Oct 03, 2007 2:25 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Old Blue top Tories
Replies: 14
Views: 4243

Old Blue top Tories

The Daily Telegraph has been running a list of the top 100 movers and shakers in David Chameleon's Tory party. #5 is Steve Hilton, Director of Strategy, who has previously voted Green. #12 is Stephan Shakespeare, chairing selection committee meetings. Presumably his qualification for this is his dem...