Tea Bowls

[thamesmudandbarges]

I just remembered tea bowls the other day - for how long did they last? Did they drink from tea-bowls at Horsham or was it peculiar to Hertford?

[englishangel]

You are going tio have to trawl through a lot of posts as there are discussions, pictures and all sorts on here. The tea bowls lasted until the girls moved to Horsham

[J.R.]

KIFF Bowls, perleeeeeeeeeeeeez !!!!

[englishangel]

See they have/had them at Horsham too. But we just called them tea bowls at Hertford J.R.

[J.R.]

The warming bowl of kiff on a cold winters morning breakfast !

Arr ! - Sweet memories.

[CHAZ]

Our kiff was in green plastic mugs but came in a large aluminuim type jug. If I remember well the tea itself came out of a BURCO?

[kerrensimmonds]

Yes Chaz the bowls had died out by the time you were at Horsham. But I think that 'Burco' (or something similar) was the name of the manufacturer of the electric urns in which tea was made for mass catering (not only at CH but also in e.g. Church Halls....)

[midget]

Our tea(?) was actually brewed in a huge copper in the main Kitchen, and decanted knto urns for the individual houses.

[thamesmudandbarges]

You are going tio have to trawl through a lot of posts as there are discussions, pictures and all sorts on here. The tea bowls lasted until the girls moved to Horsham

I've just remembered that somewhere (probably up in the loft) I have a cutting from the local Hertford newspaper that made a big thing about tea bowls. I'll have to make an attempt to find it and scan and post it. I also remember the chaplain - or whatever he was called - he really did spit.....somehow eights ended up either at the very back or the very front of chapel - rarely in the middle. So when W...(memory is tinging, here...but can't remember his name) preached, we got a shower!

[Angela Woodford]

The Rev Walker!

[thamesmudandbarges]

Yes! That 's the man!

Good Lord, did he spit!

[kerrensimmonds]

There were two Revd. Walkers (and we have referred to this elsewhere on the Forum, already). Father and son. In my era we called them 'Ancient' and 'Modern'.
The trouble with 'Modern' was that he was tone deaf - which made nonsense of anything musical in the Chapel, with this drone coming from the front! I suspect that 'Modern' was the spitter....
In fact he became a good friend of Jukes and Wilson and joined their bridge parties for many years. I believe he died not very long ago....
They were both Rectors of Great Amwell, near Ware, which seemed to carry with it the requirement to be Chaplain at CH Hertford. I wonder who was Chaplain before 'Ancient', and where he came from? Does Midget remember?
From my time, how many remember the alternate Confirmation Classes with DRW and Revd. Walker? Alternately difficult and challenging, versus soft and fluffy? I don't think the Revd. Walker knew much about teenage girls.

[Katharine]

From my time, how many remember the alternate Confirmation Classes with DRW and Revd. Walker? Alternately difficult and challenging, versus soft and fluffy? I don't think the Revd. Walker knew much about teenage girls.

I thought we had two classes a week, one led by each of them - sadly I cannot remembering learning anything from either of them in those classes that I can say definitely came from Confirmation classes!

[midget]

Canon Cockbill (pronounced COBL) was chaplain when I first was at CH, then we had a misery (name mercifully forgotten), and then the father and son combo, or possibly the other way round.

[J.R.]

Canon Cockbill (pronounced COBL) was chaplain when I first was at CH, then we had a misery (name mercifully forgotten), and then the father and son combo, or possibly the other way round.

I'm hardly surprised, given the spelling !!!