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Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:40 pm
by DavebytheSea
Vonny wrote:I remember swimming for 2 terms and gym I think for the other 2 terms. I also remember the old mangle outside the pool for wringing out your costumes :lol:
So you were allowed costumes then? We weren't (see separate posting). I think you had it easy at Hertford!

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 6:51 pm
by Richard Ruck
Hello sailor!

Thawed out yet??

By the way, don't forget to get in touch if you fancy a pint or two when you're up this way.....

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:20 pm
by Vonny
DavebytheSea wrote:
Vonny wrote:I remember swimming for 2 terms and gym I think for the other 2 terms. I also remember the old mangle outside the pool for wringing out your costumes :lol:
So you were allowed costumes then? We weren't (see separate posting). I think you had it easy at Hertford!
:shock: :shock:

Costumes had to be navy blue or black if I remember correctly :lol: Certainly no revealing numbers were allowed! :shock:

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:27 pm
by Richard Ruck
Vonny wrote:
DavebytheSea wrote:
Vonny wrote:I remember swimming for 2 terms and gym I think for the other 2 terms. I also remember the old mangle outside the pool for wringing out your costumes :lol:
So you were allowed costumes then? We weren't (see separate posting). I think you had it easy at Hertford!
:shock: :shock:

Costumes had to be navy blue or black if I remember correctly :lol: Certainly no revealing numbers were allowed! :shock:
It's all true! (According to the more senior, err, members).

Welcome to Winky World!

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:42 pm
by Vonny
Richard Ruck wrote: Welcome to Winky World!
Misread that the first time :shock: :lol:

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:44 pm
by Richard Ruck
Vonny wrote:
Richard Ruck wrote: Welcome to Winky World!
Misread that the first time :shock: :lol:
Oh dear! :lol: :lol:

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:45 pm
by Vonny
Richard Ruck wrote:
Vonny wrote:
Richard Ruck wrote: Welcome to Winky World!
Misread that the first time :shock: :lol:
Oh dear! :lol: :lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:46 pm
by AKAP
My wife went to a boarding school, they too swam sans cossies, difference was the school was mixed.
Interestingly when I read an education book by the head of the school, he had taught for a short period of time at CH. Kenneth Barnes by name,does anyone remember him?
She found him an inspirational teacher. Perhaps he got the idea for swim wear from CH.

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:47 pm
by Vonny
The name doesn't ring a bell with me.

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:05 pm
by Jude
no bells ringing here - except in my ears...

costumes black or dark navy blue - with name in - that's something I hated about the school that my two went to as day pupils (you should some of you recognise it's horrendous name) Wycliffe - one of the headmasters for CH came from being Head at Wycliffe - just after the amalgamation ( wow that was a long word)... They had long black name tags with their names in bright yellow in capitals and htey had to be on the OUTSIDE of all SPORTS wear - I mean after Christopher J Comber Lamb B 11 it was a synch to sew on - I still have some of my CH ones - in blue on white - nothing about house or anything.. I have used name tapes to secure things together - amazing how strong they are -

If someone remembers the Head from here - let me know!

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:27 pm
by AKAP
AKAP wrote:My wife went to a boarding school, they too swam sans cossies, difference was the school was mixed.
Interestingly when I read an education book by the head of the school, he had taught for a short period of time at CH. Kenneth Barnes by name,does anyone remember him?
She found him an inspirational teacher. Perhaps he got the idea for swim wear from CH.
Had a look back at Kenneth Barnes's book, he was only at Ch for one term in 1925 so no one will remember him. He does say some interesting things about the place.
"I slept in a junior housemaster's room and it had a hatch-way that opened on a dormitory in which beds seemed to stretch endlessly into the distance like something seen between two mirrors." and
"The science department was the birthplace of the heuristic method of science teaching: the reserch method, find-out-for-youself."
He also makes reference to the capped school fees but concludes with
"It was a standing joke in the Common Room to refer to the number of poverty-stricken parents who could afford Rolls-Royces, but in fairness I should say that I did not observe these vehicles."

Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 6:42 pm
by sejintenej
AKAP wrote: "The science department was the birthplace of the heuristic method of science teaching: the reserch method, find-out-for-youself."
Having been through that with Mr Crosland and two chemistry teachers (the second, Mr Potts, was straight out of Gordonstoun and Uni in my 2nd A level year) I found it excellent.
Not only did you have to work out how to do the experiment but then (especially in physics) you had to make the apparatus and then carrry out the experiment. After all that you remembered it. 2 or more experiments per week** and you son got through the syllabus. 100% passes in Physics, I heard there was one Chemistry failure - not me.

** there was a list you had to get through