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by CHAZ
Wed May 04, 2022 10:41 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Twins
Replies: 66
Views: 25865

Re: Twins

John and David Hampson in Maine 84-91 - looked totally different to each other. I vaguely also remember Mat and Michael Harvey who left in I think 1984 ish. Can't remember if they were both school monitors? They really did look identical. Apart from Charlotte and Emily Jewsbury I can't think of any...
by CHAZ
Fri Oct 08, 2021 3:02 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Richard Trenchard (PeB 1978-1984)
Replies: 4
Views: 2198

Re: Richard Trenchard (PeB 1978-1984)

I am in contact with Richard (a PeB contemporary and fellow Himalayan expedition member) and he is doing fine after a jittery start. He loves these difficult zones having also served in Somalia.
by CHAZ
Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:51 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Charles Hazlewood
Replies: 19
Views: 9435

Re: Charles Hazlewood

There were a number of very talented music scholars at that time. Chris Tambling, Charles, Adrian Bawtree. But the most talented was Piers Maxim, whom you have probably never heard of. His interest was and remains church music, so was never going to be mainstream. On my final day, Jeffers told the ...
by CHAZ
Wed Jul 15, 2020 11:37 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: GRACE
Replies: 71
Views: 34295

Re: GRACE

Traditionally School Monitors read the Grace during my time (1978-1984). BUT when someone got academic buttons, it was a tradition that they would read Grace once....
by CHAZ
Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:43 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: GRACE
Replies: 71
Views: 34295

Re: GRACE

Thanks Katherine. Indeed the first seems spot on but the reference to the Royal Family in after meals seems odd and I dot recall it.
by CHAZ
Fri Jul 03, 2020 1:33 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: GRACE
Replies: 71
Views: 34295

GRACE

Can somebody provide the before and after texts for Grace?
by CHAZ
Thu Apr 02, 2020 4:58 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: RIP Tom Jeffers 1944-2020
Replies: 23
Views: 9344

Re: RIP Tom Jeffers 1944-2020

Tom Jeffers was my A level German teacher for two years in middle 80s and was a wonderful schoolmaster. His physical presence and mop of grey hair made him stand out in any crowd. He was inspiring, cultured and just a great member of the CH community. I was in PeB when he was PeA housemaster but oft...
by CHAZ
Wed Jan 22, 2020 4:12 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Michael Porteous
Replies: 19
Views: 20866

Re: Michael Porteous

Oh wow this is weird as I thought he was still in prison in UK.
He must have been let out early?
by CHAZ
Wed Oct 23, 2019 2:38 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: What were your thoughts about the theatre?
Replies: 21
Views: 9523

Re: What were your thoughts about the theatre?

It was a great palce. i was at CH from 1978-1984 and perhaps witnessed the wonder years of Duncan Noel-Patton productions. I even acted in 3 myself. It was indeed a massive stage and depsite the awful red benches and red surroundings, the quality of the performances on stage soon put to rest any pos...
by CHAZ
Thu Jun 27, 2019 1:05 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Dennis Silk
Replies: 2
Views: 2187

Re: Dennis Silk

Very sad indeed. I overlapped at university with his son, Tom. Dennis was on my interview committee for the Morehead Scholarship in 1983. I still have his personal congratulory letter. He was Warden at Radlet for 23 years and one of the best and most repsected Heads of his era. https://www.radley.or...
by CHAZ
Thu May 23, 2019 12:21 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Thanks Giving Service for Barnes Wallis LP
Replies: 6
Views: 3268

Re: Thanks Giving Service for Barnes Wallis LP

Wonderful Simon. I was present at this great event as a UF. Great to hear again.
by CHAZ
Tue May 14, 2019 1:39 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Do You Tell People That You Went To Public School?
Replies: 15
Views: 6607

Re: Do You Tell People That You Went To Public School?

I live in France and so rarely do people understand the concept of boarding as over here un internat is Monday to Friday and for kids that seem to struggle in public system and need monitoring. There is also complete incomprehension as to why parents don't wnat to be around their kids for 8 months a...
by CHAZ
Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:07 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: RIP P T FARRAR
Replies: 0
Views: 6268

RIP P T FARRAR

I saw in the Old Blue that Peter Farrar (Head of Modern Langauges) has died. He was my AO and A level teacher for three years and though he was a wonderful linguist, his sense of timing was not great and lessons were inevitably shorter. He would often be having a coffee in the Language lab and then ...
by CHAZ
Wed Oct 17, 2018 3:23 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Sentencing of Garry William Dobbie
Replies: 25
Views: 15001

Re: Sentencing of Garry William Dobbie

Still no update on this one? Over 6 weeks now....
by CHAZ
Wed Oct 17, 2018 3:06 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: A letter from the CHOBA board
Replies: 40
Views: 15734

Re: A letter from the CHOBA board

There are indeed a lot of coincidences and I found the photo in the press article that I posted to be very very like the Revd Porteous I knew at CH.
The Thailand connection is also unsettling but if truth were to be said if nothing has come out from CH days, then it may indeed be a different person.