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Thank you Howard. I do remember one year when performing the London march(St Matthew's day??) we passed a coach of Japanese tourists,and they were all crammed up to the nearside windows taking photos.I never believed that stereotype until I saw it.I wonder if anyone else has any CH marching related ...

Doh!!I was thinking of CH.

Marching into lunch is definitely something that stays with you after leaving CH,and not in a bad way.Because of marching into lunch I still walk swinging my arms,I've even been told that I march along when on my morning walks!And the CH band is exceptional,I used to have a tape I used to listen to ...

I started at CH in 1988 and there wasn't a Lower Fourth then,it went 2nd Form(lovingly called Squits),3rd Form,Little Erasmus(LE),Upper Fourth(UF),Great Erasmus(GE),Deputy Grecians(Deps) and finally Grecians.

That sounds very familiar,I'm sure it happened whilst I was there.I could be mistaken but it does stir faint memories

If I remember rightly then Neill is right.The LE and GE are supposedly named after Erasmus the philosopher.As for why they are named so I do not know.Now the story behind the naming of those particular years would be of interest.

The good old JDS peeve,they were the stuff of legend.Did his head still go completely bright red?

Everyone

I'd love to get hold of a copy.It would really take me back

I had totally forgotten about Boomer Carrington,how I don't know.

My nickname was given to me by J.D Shippam and it 'Grunt',I believe I inherited from the last person in school with my name

I remember that day back in 1990 as I was in Geography with a clear view of that particular stretch.It's a day I will never forget even though I never knew him.A very sombre day indeed

I remember "acquiring" a master key,it was great fun roaming the school and nosing about.And then we discovered the English department photo-copier.And that was put to good use,well until it jammed with a copy of one of my co-conspirators stuck inside unknown to us.Oh how easily I was caug...

I certainly remember getting the plimsol from the infamous J.D Shippam back in my Lamb B days(1988 to '91),and it didn't do me any harm.I think being made to take a cold shower was worse,but hey it toughened me up.