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- Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:00 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Gravel Crunching
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14313
Re: Gravel Crunching
Definitely Betty Jukes for 3rd form general science, and after that we were into chemistry and biology with Chemi T and Mrs someone I can't remember but there was the textbook with the diagram of reproduction in the rabbit.... And yes indeed, we were all trying to conform to a norm that now seems bi...
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:49 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Gravel Crunching
- Replies: 19
- Views: 14313
Re: Gravel Crunching
I'm sure we didn't do mending on Sundays - it was Fridays for most of my time but Wednesdays right at the start when Wednesday was a sort of half holiday and we had lessons on Saturday mornings (double science with Miss Jukes in the 3rd form... my unacceptably messy diagram of a bunsen burner... the...
- Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:03 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Shelagh Regester
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8458
Re: Shelagh Regester
I was at Guildford Crematorium for a funeral last week and on the table in the vestry there was a copy of the service order for Shelagh's funeral. On the cover was a lovely photograph of her looking beautiful, poised and confident. I don't remember her except as a name, and to be honest the photo di...
- Sun Mar 25, 2012 5:38 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Quick questions and (maybe) answers Hertford Memories thread
- Replies: 517
- Views: 124690
Re: Quick questions and (maybe) answers Hertford Memories th
Yes, 3 ornaments on the locker, one cuddly toy if you must, and three books brought form home, to be initialled as suitable by the housemistress. I lost the argument about The Lord of the rings being one book really, and had to surrender my "otehr" two.... It did look really relaxed in the...
- Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:14 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Quick questions and (maybe) answers Hertford Memories thread
- Replies: 517
- Views: 124690
Re: Quick questions and (maybe) answers Hertford Memories th
Yes indeed - the video left me speechless for the moment, except to say that our macs (and these are clearly the same design as in the 60s/70s) were even more unbecoming than I remembered.....
- Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:10 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Mallett's Mallet
- Replies: 32963
- Views: 3878691
Re: Mallett's Mallet
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- Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:59 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: School reports and the 'Big Picture'
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10949
Re: School reports and the 'Big Picture'
In the late 60s Hertford reports were on a single sheet with a space for each subject, form mistress' report and then HM's. I don't think there was a housemistress space, but I always felt her comments were reflected in DR's bit - especially that word "irresponsible". And I suspect (takes ...
- Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:19 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Nursemaids
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6502
Re: Nursemaids
You can see what Trish (now Chudleigh) is doing now here http://www.fetalcare.co.uk/new/meet-the-team (scroll down a bit), though I think it does her career less than justice. Parkin, now Susan Bowles, works for OFSTED as an HMI. I imagine DR might be quite proud of us, though I'm not sure how she w...
- Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:04 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Nursemaids
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6502
Re: Nursemaids
Mine was expelled I think. Maybe Jo would remember as she might have been in the same year? My new schoolma already had a schoolkid so I was in the relatively rare situation of having a schoolsister too :-) :D In the days of junior houses there weren't enough schoolmas to go round, so we were all t...
- Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:11 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: That date rings a bell....
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10114
Re: That date rings a bell....
Yes of course - likewise for my sons.icomefromalanddownunder wrote:for me it always comes back to my son and daughter - who probably wouldn't be part of my life if I had chosen a different path, so I conclude that my learnings (mistakes?) and tortuous route were required for the wonderful outcome.
- Sat Aug 27, 2011 10:42 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: That date rings a bell....
- Replies: 41
- Views: 10114
Re: That date rings a bell....
Picking up belatedly on this, and sharing Angela's memory of 19 August 1964 (two days after my 11th birthday - I think it actually was Carolyn's....) I can answer the question about days out. We were allowed three visits between August and Christmas, of which one would be the September Long Sat. The...
- Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:43 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: The School Rules
- Replies: 105
- Views: 50986
Re: The School Rules
The Meads... of course. What WAS I thinking? We were sometimes allowed to break ranks - known as scrambling.... mostly up the steep wooded bank at the far side of the Meads, on the way to Bengeo, which was criss-crossed with paths lethally threaded with shiny worn tree roots. And occasionally at Fox...
- Mon Jul 04, 2011 5:37 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: The School Rules
- Replies: 105
- Views: 50986
Re: The School Rules
There was an open air swimming pool on the Leas (Lees?) just by where we came onto them after walking past the station and along a bit of the canal. An excellent vie of the brewery from there - remember the smell?
At least our pool was indoors.
At least our pool was indoors.
- Sun Apr 10, 2011 12:24 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Plates
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9687
Re: Plates
We definitely had two form captains - one eleced by the form and one chosen by the form mistress. I remember Miss Morrison chose me in LIVA - an attempt to help me demonstrate I could be "responsible", a word (mainly with the addition of "ir" before it) that dogged me for most of...
- Tue Mar 08, 2011 11:34 pm
- Forum: Hertford Memories
- Topic: Books studied in English
- Replies: 42
- Views: 25962
Re: Books studied in English
There definitely weren't any love or otherwise naughty bits in our O level set books - Macbeth, Androcles and the Lion (BJM loved Shaw), Brazilian Adventure by Peter Fleming (eh?) and Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man. I don't remember ever reading anything even mildly titillating in class - or did I jus...