From what did you drink your tea when at CH?
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From what did you drink your tea when at CH?
There's a crested bowl on eBay at the moment (YESSS on which I am bidding - so please keep away!) and I am reminded of the conventions (1957) under which we were punished if we did not hold the bowl correctly (index finger over the rim, thumb and middle finger outside the rim, to balance it). In my time at Hertford (1957-1966) the crested bowls became few and far between as they were replaced by plain white ones which, in turn, were eventually (I think) replaced by plastic mugs.
Here is history in fulfulment, though I gather that much of the porcelain (whether crested or not) was destined for the scrap heap.
Here is history in fulfulment, though I gather that much of the porcelain (whether crested or not) was destined for the scrap heap.
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Plain white bowls in Horsham when I was there. Never heard of a crested one. (Sounds like a feathered bird)
No holding convention either, just trying not to get your fingers scalded. Especially when trying to carry 2 bowls, just after they had been poured from the tin jugs. Merely picking them up was hard enough, let alone trying to carry them to the top of the table without spilling any.
Mugs must be a new invention.
No holding convention either, just trying not to get your fingers scalded. Especially when trying to carry 2 bowls, just after they had been poured from the tin jugs. Merely picking them up was hard enough, let alone trying to carry them to the top of the table without spilling any.
Mugs must be a new invention.
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The mugs came in for use in house, Kerren, they were in house colours so ours were blue. I think we had the bowls in Dining Hall all the time I was there.
6s made a point of collecting crested plates from Dining Hall and replacing them with white plates from House until we got a complete collection - perhaps other houses did the same, I wouldn't know.
6s made a point of collecting crested plates from Dining Hall and replacing them with white plates from House until we got a complete collection - perhaps other houses did the same, I wouldn't know.
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We still had bowls in the Dining Room when I left in 1970.Katharine wrote:The mugs came in for use in house, Kerren, they were in house colours so ours were blue. I think we had the bowls in Dining Hall all the time I was there.
Very useful training for dealing with breakfast bowls of hot chocolate or milky coffee when travelling in France
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Very true - I amazed my homestay hostess by coping naturally, I was the first Brit she had ever hosted who could do so!icomefromalanddownunder wrote:We still had bowls in the Dining Room when I left in 1970.
Very useful training for dealing with breakfast bowls of hot chocolate or milky coffee when travelling in France
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Looks like it. I wonder when the school discontinued the use of bowls in Dining Hall?
I am not surprised that the girls were taught how to drink their tea daintily while the boys did differently.........
If I win the eBay auction it will all come flooding back (how to hold the bowl that is, not the tea!)
I am not surprised that the girls were taught how to drink their tea daintily while the boys did differently.........
If I win the eBay auction it will all come flooding back (how to hold the bowl that is, not the tea!)
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If you can call kiff "tea" the answer is yes - and without any ornament (that seems to have been reserved for the girlies). I guess about 7 inch dia, 3 inches deepGreat Plum wrote:so did you all drink tea out of a bowl?
Never had anything else in my day - tough as the proverbial old boots - you could drop them safely and no handle to break off. I don't even remember a chipped one, they were so thick.
OTOH don't drop one on your toe - not even housie shoes could protect your toes.
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