The Tower Of London

Laura M · Post by **Laura M** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:21 am

And ride a horse to breakfast and grow a beard! I kinda like how in the past on St Mattys day the mayor would provide them with as much ale as they could drink!

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:14 am

Laura M wrote:And ride a horse to breakfast and grow a beard! I kinda like how in the past on St Mattys day the mayor would provide them with as much ale as they could drink!

I think that was more like Kaliber

than London Pride

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:48 am

cj wrote:
sejintenej wrote:The City of London has a mass of functions which occur for historical reasons .... Sheep over London Bridge? This is a right of Freemen of the City of London and I would be far from surprised to learn that OBs have a fast track to being made Freemen.
Isn't the Senior Grecian allowed to marry and live with his wife at CH? As well as drive sheep over London Bridge, of course.

Apparently so...

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:25 am

Great Plum wrote:
cj wrote:
sejintenej wrote:The City of London has a mass of functions which occur for historical reasons .... Sheep over London Bridge? This is a right of Freemen of the City of London and I would be far from surprised to learn that OBs have a fast track to being made Freemen.
Isn't the Senior Grecian allowed to marry and live with his wife at CH? As well as drive sheep over London Bridge, of course.
Apparently so...

....erm.... I believe there have been several female Senior Grecians recently.....

Have the Rules/Laws/wording been amended?

A case for the European courts I think.

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:23 pm

I don't think any female senior grecians have tried to grow a beard yet though...

cj · Post by cj » Sun Mar 19, 2006 8:41 pm

englishangel wrote:....erm.... I believe there have been several female Senior Grecians recently.....

Blimey, there'll be a female Pope next!!!

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:30 am

A female pope???
I dont know about all this beard business - I work with Italians.....
its not completely out of the question.
I remember that Mr Bing (Robert I think), when he was was a grecian, sported a rather dashing moustache.
Can't remeber any beards tho (apart form the dreadful Mr Torkington one that has been duly dealt with in another forum) and anyway - he was a teacher, not a grecian (before someone corrects me on that)

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:41 pm

A bearded Pope, then !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THAT should raise a few questions.

99yorkpj · Post by **99yorkpj** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:36 pm

...even a female priest among the RCs would be saying something.....

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:34 pm

Even though it is called the Tower of London, this thread took some finding.

What about this from the CH website, I can't believe that no-one spotted it before?

Scroll down a bit to 22nd June

http://www.christs-hospital.org.uk/44-n ... html#newhm

matthew · Post by **matthew** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 12:47 am

Christâ€™s Hospital, the 454 years old charitable boarding school that provides subsidised education for 97% of its pupils, has just announced that it has appointed a new Head, John Franklin, to replace Dr Peter Southern when he retires in August 2007, after 11 years service.

Standards are slipping at the English department...

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 12:54 am

matthew wrote:
Christâ€™s Hospital, the 454 years old charitable boarding school that provides subsidised education for 97% of its pupils, has just announced that it has appointed a new Head, John Franklin, to replace Dr Peter Southern when he retires in August 2007, after 11 years service.
Standards are slipping at the English department...

I think that is actually a quotation from the Daily Torygraph.

The PR department would not phrase it like that...would it?

icomefromalanddownunder · Sun Jul 09, 2006 1:48 am

Many years ago, back when there were still four living Beatles, four or five of us tried the get in for free act: myself, Diana Garnham, Mary Mc, Judith Points, and maybe Liz Plummer. Of course, we weren't garbed up in ankle length blue back then: just looked like mini Dame Ednas in our grotty blue overcoats, with optional chapel cap.

My understanding was that we had free access to anything within the City, so we tried Tower Bridge, and, I think, the Tower - got shooed away.

Since hearing about the levy you now have to pay to take a car into London, I wondered whether any Old Blues had attempted to circumvent that?

Best wishes

Caroline Payne (nee Barrett)
Hertford 6.20 1965-70

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:17 am

icomefromalanddownunder wrote:Many years ago, back when there were still four living Beatles, four or five of us tried the get in for free act: myself, Diana Garnham, Mary Mc, Judith Points, and maybe Liz Plummer. Of course, we weren't garbed up in ankle length blue back then: just looked like mini Dame Ednas in our grotty blue overcoats, with optional chapel cap.

My understanding was that we had free access to anything within the City, so we tried Tower Bridge, and, I think, the Tower - got shooed away.

Since hearing about the levy you now have to pay to take a car into London, I wondered whether any Old Blues had attempted to circumvent that?

Best wishes

Caroline Payne (nee Barrett)
Hertford 6.20 1965-70

Now there is an idea. However CH ties are with the City, and the congestion charge mainly covers Westminster so would styill have to pay it there.