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- Wed Oct 19, 2016 1:04 pm
- Forum: Coleridge Photos
- Topic: Col A - is this 1960?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15026
Re: Col A - is this 1960?
... if you took it, John, how long a delay did you give it? You're there in the top row, which must have involved a climb. Well spotted, Michael. Actually there was no delay. I used a camera with no such sophistication. I had to get somebody - fortunately, I forget who - from Col B to fire the shut...
- Mon Oct 03, 2016 9:32 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Housey Coat 'badge'
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9707
Re: Housey Coat 'badge'
Just so. The RMS was training you specifically for the Royal Navy, and by your early teens you should have been a midshipman. If you were still at the school, you would be, to put it mildly, a disappointment to your sponsors.michael scuffil wrote:By becoming a Grecian, you left the Mathematical School.
- Mon Oct 03, 2016 12:03 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Housey Coat 'badge'
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9707
Re: Housey Coat 'badge'
I can see that the badge system might create social distinctions, but at Christ's Hospital there is not much reason for any pupil to be looked down on because they have rely on charity to keep them at the school. The whole idea of the school is that nearly everybody is in that position. Only a small...
- Fri Sep 30, 2016 12:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Housey Coat 'badge'
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9707
Re: Housey Coat 'badge'
Since nobody else has responded, I'll try to dredge up my memories from 60 years ago ... -what are they actually called? The thing was called a plate -what percentage, approximately, of the students have them? (I saw very few in Google Images) I never counted, but I might have seen one or two plates...
- Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH as Sitcom
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2208
Re: CH as Sitcom
Were these places just very large versions of Craggy Island with a few lonely matrons dotted around like token Mrs Doyles? I had never thought of that, but now I will never be able to get rid of the idea! A few years ago, on one of my first visits to Ireland, we stayed in a hostel on Achill Island....
- Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:26 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Folk Music
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7270
Re: Folk Music
... A whole wedge of our culture lost, lost for ever! Not really. They're in many published song books, in all kinds of arrangements. Some of them did indeed have a previous life as folk songs, but before we got to sing them they had been tidied up for "community singing" as approved by t...
- Thu Feb 25, 2016 4:34 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: PETITION: Is 26% Full-Fee Paying Pupils Too High?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 39400
Re: Is 26% Full-Fee Paying Pupils Too High?
The aim now is to set-up an online Petition 1552 and Katharine is helping. I would like to sign the petition. I would prefer to sign on paper. I don't in general sign on-line petitions, which have become very much devalued. It is too easy to set them up. There are thousands of them, and they can ge...
- Mon Feb 22, 2016 6:36 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Politics
- Replies: 624
- Views: 274632
Re: Politics
He doesn't care about anyone with an iota of intelligence. He thinks that they are outnumbered by the followers of sound-bites and clowning. He may be right. Plenty of other politicians share that view.HowardH wrote:He is a buffoon if he thinks that anyone with an iota of intelligence will take him seriously.
- Mon Feb 22, 2016 4:54 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Politics
- Replies: 624
- Views: 274632
Re: Politics
Boris - I have seen more brain cells in a puddle. The man's a buffoon of the highest order. If only that were true! The buffoon is a pose, or, if not a deliberate pose, a facade that comes easily to him. Boris is clever, and ambitious, and he uses his cleverness and his buffoonery to distract peopl...
- Mon Feb 22, 2016 12:03 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: GUILDFORD-HORSHAM TRAIN
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3059
Re: GUILDFORD-HORSHAM TRAIN
The system is slightly more complicated than Martin says, as if there was just one token it might end up at the wrong end of the section. The basic token system which Martin describes is very safe, but so restrictive that it is virtually useless for anything more than a simple slow shuttle service....
- Sat Feb 20, 2016 10:04 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Carols from Christ's Hospital, Hertford - LP
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2263
Re: Carols from Christ's Hospital, Hertford - LP
I have two copies of that, and one of them may actually be playable. When I get home from Lowestoft (don't ask), I'll see whether I can digitise it. Give me a prod if you hear no more of this in, say, three weeks.
Or does anybody know where this recording is already available on-line?
Or does anybody know where this recording is already available on-line?
- Sun Feb 07, 2016 11:37 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Split-out post from the Petition/FFP topic.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8878
Re: Is 26% Full-Fee Paying Pupils Too High?
... I spotted you among a line of other satirical youths proceeding into the Science block with your books balanced on your heads in the manner of native women. Would you perhaps have been going into Mr Goodall's class and would this perhaps have been a reference to Goodall's nickname of "Bwaa...
- Sun Feb 07, 2016 4:24 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Split-out post from the Petition/FFP topic.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 8878
Re: Is 26% Full-Fee Paying Pupils Too High?
So true. I'm sure Rockfreak and John Brougham and J.R. would get on just fine over a pint, notwithstanding their obviously different viewpoints, but web conversation is a sure way to wind things up. Ah, don't you just love the brotherhood?Avon wrote:This interweb thing is tough, isn't it?
- Wed Jan 27, 2016 2:12 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Daily Timetable
- Replies: 38
- Views: 23469
Re: Daily Timetable
I'm very impressed that Michael can remember things with such precision. I couldn't have written that timetable down, but, now that I see it, every detail fits my recollections. Except possibly the evenings, which perhaps varied from house to house. I don't remember any third segment of prep in Col A.
- Sat Jan 16, 2016 5:03 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: End of term
- Replies: 22
- Views: 22460
Re: End of term
I wonder when the radiators, rather ugly looking edifices I recall, were installed. I believe they were part of the original 1902 build, whose architecture concealed a plan in the grand Victorian engineering style. The whole school was heated and powered from a boiler house next to the gym and the ...