Deliveries for the Grecians Club and / or Common Room at a guess.Goatherd wrote:Beer lorries? Definitely after my time!
I missed Grecians Club by a year or so.
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Deliveries for the Grecians Club and / or Common Room at a guess.Goatherd wrote:Beer lorries? Definitely after my time!
Nor me. In my day (2nd half of 50s, early 60s) I don't remember even Horsham as being a problem, and certainly not the West Sussex backwoods. (In those days it was simply Sussex.) We used to cycle into Horsham reasonably often – stocking up on non-Tuck-Shop delicacies (I was very keen on mussels, at one stage), wine from Peter Dominic, etc – all in Housey clothes.The so-called penquin bashing in Horsham itself, and around CH must have become aproduct of the 70'a and thereafter.
I cannot remember any such incidents in the 60's near the school.
Sorry, I'd got stuck on the first page of the thread. It's now clear.So could Forum-posters indicate the Bashers decade in guestion?
No.31, very interesting to hear from you.no.31 wrote:...the only differences being that your parents paid to put you in Care and the Council paid for us to be put in Care
Living "below stairs" one was required to have a "proper" accent and I remember hours of instruction which of course did not go down well there - it is still commented on ;-(. Of course it was not proper to have a young kid downstairs so I was despatched to CH at the earliest possible opportunity - the entrance exam was well before I was nine. Can't say I was scruffy though almost all my clothes were mended castoffs - outside service and school I was always barefooted to save shoeleather.Spoonbill wrote:There was no shortage of kids with London or South-East working-class accents, no shortage of kids from broken homes and no shortage of kids who came from seriously deprived areas in Greater London. We were for the most part a scruffy, rough-and-ready bunch who mercilessly mimicked anyone with an allegedly posh accent and who took a pretty dim view of anyone who put on airs. Probably the pupils from Muntham House shared a lot of common ground with many Christ's Hospital boys, if only we'd realised it.no.31 wrote:...the only differences being that your parents paid to put you in Care and the Council paid for us to be put in Care
Hopefully your own life has taken a turn for the better since your Muntham House days.
I used to be able to do Belfast (I lived there for a while) and a Norwegian language professor actually told me that I came from Bo in the Lofoten islands - that was where a girlfriend came.J.R. wrote:With regards to 'accents', it's very strange how some people adapt to their surrounding.
There was a lad named Mark Window in Barnes B whose parents supposedly removed him from the school (c.1973) because his dad had had a significant pay rise and didn't wish to make a larger contribution to his son's fees than he was already making. A shame, because I remember Mark Window fondly. He was the kind of lad who was prepared to be friends with everyone and anyone. Heaven alone knows what became of him thereafter. Can't seem to spot him on LinkedIn or Facebook, but then maybe he's just too grown up for that kind of tomfoolery.sejintenej wrote: Going back to someone's suggestion that nobody paid the full cost in the seventies (and I read that as up to and including the seventies) there was the policy that once in the school you did not leave if the family fortunes changed. If their income increased then fees increased accordingly so it is not inconceivable that some parents paid full whack. I was there on a presentation but after my mother's death the fees for me should have increased greatly.
http://www.muntham.org.uk/J.R. wrote:NO31.....
A question.
Where was MHS and when was it founded ?
I have absolutely no recollection of it during my time at CH, (58-63). Nice to have you aboard on the forum.
JR.