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Angela Woodford wrote:
No Prayer Meetings... no Scripture Union or Billy Graham. .

Wasn't there a "revival" in the early 70s, not long after we left? Worship meetings in the Science Block basement? Or did I just imagine hearing about it?

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"particularly as regards health" How did the abolition of Chapel caps affect our HEALTH ? Glad somebody else picked that up - I did wonder myself how it affected your health! I meant to add a comment but forgot! Well, the abolition of hats did improve my psychological health somewhat, sin...

I seem to remember Miss Morrison sitting in the seat in front of DR. Kerren, would you know if DR was high church? I presume Mary Thompson was Roman Catholic. Certainly the Rev. Walkers home church, St john the Baptist at Great amwell was very "belly and smelly". I think the senior mistre...

[quote="Fjgrogan"] we were never allowed to set foot outside outside the school gates (or of course in chapel - St Paul strikes again!) without donning these incredibly unattractive garments - /quote] But then there came a day quite late in my time when a message came round that henceforwa...

for the record, here is Church Times article on the curate's wife. Clergy wife submits a defence Ed Beavan THE WIFE of a curate who was criticised in the national media for preaching a sermon encouraging wives to submit to their husbands has spoken out in his support Jane Oden, wife of the Revd Mark...

She definitely didn't. I didn't look further than university. As for what you might do if you didn't go, I only recall teaching, nursing or secretarial work as possible destinations.

And there was a small notebook, like the ones we had for vocab, in which we were supposed to keep our accounts. I remember going over them once a week with Lil. Once we were allowed to go shopping it became quite hard to make them convincing - and of course I always found it hard to make them add up...

I'm sure I remember it being 2 BAs - and we were allowed our purses once a month. Mons definitely on their own and I can't remember how often we were allowed our purses in principle. But I bet in other houses mons at least kept their own purses.....

Kim2s70-77 wrote: I was completely out of my depth, although CH had given the chameleon-like skills to present an appropriate front. There was just no depth to the presentation!

I recognise this - just how I felt at Oxford, and from time to time since. A sense of not quite belonging anywhere.....

In our time the railway walk used to crop up regularly, when there was a need for everyone to get some exercise with minimum effort and supervision. The route went (surprise) up one side of the line out of Hertford East, crossed it somewhere or other, and came back the other side. Can't remember how...

Wasn't Stella in 7s...(Munch?) I really should get a life.

Hello Pixie - you and I are probably the nearest 3s in time, and even in numbers (separated by Mervion at 3.7, as I recall). Have you seen the picture here - http://www.chforum.info/php/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=3176 - lots of familiar faces from your year, though 3s are mainly not in it, apart from ...

We used to sing carols round the dayroom fireplace on the last night of term - known as holly burning, and in my early years I think we did have a fire. We chose the carols in turns -that years leavers, by age working down, alternating with juniors, working up by age.