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by ASR
Mon Mar 29, 2021 10:07 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Ernest Christopher "Kit" Aitken
Replies: 25
Views: 22992

Re: Ernest Christopher "Kit" Aitken

I was driving back to school one evening with my mother after a Leave Day and used the narrow entrance road by the pitches nearest the Bax Castle from where Kit was returning with a skinful driving just ahead of me. On the narrow approach towards The Mile his car gently slid into the ditch. I had to...
by ASR
Mon Mar 29, 2021 9:52 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Flecker’s Banning of some Comics
Replies: 19
Views: 8059

Re: Flecker’s Banning of some Comics

... And I remember a craze in 1968 for sending off for "I'm Backing Britain" stickers, which got out of hand and was put a stop to: this from web I'm Backing Britain was a brief patriotic campaign, which flourished in early 1968 and was aimed at boosting the British economy. The campaign s...
by ASR
Mon Jan 04, 2021 6:59 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Independent expert mediator
Replies: 10
Views: 6952

Re: Independent expert mediator

Hi everyone, I just wanted to underline the value of talking to Lia if you feel you are carrying any baggage to do with abuse at CH. My story is that I was filmed bathing naked in the Lav End, along with a handful of other 12 & 13 yr olds in BaA, by Roger Martin around 1967/8. (Maybe you too?) I...
by ASR
Mon Jun 08, 2020 4:20 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Pongo - Eric Littlefield
Replies: 34
Views: 18526

Re: Pongo - Eric Littlefield

... in a Barnes A House Play ... That would have been about 1968 or 69. Would that have been the one where Cobber Cornish was also sent up, I can't recall who by, with a spiel that ended with his favourite word 'absurd'? Pongo's bark was worse than his bite, I thought. I never got beaten although m...
by ASR
Sat May 30, 2020 4:46 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Charles Hazlewood
Replies: 19
Views: 9439

Re: Charles Hazlewood

You can hear the Charles Hazlewood Desert Island Disc programme here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jfnv
by ASR
Fri May 29, 2020 12:30 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: The school glider
Replies: 15
Views: 7223

Re: The school glider

You had to sit on your own parachute in the plane . . . made into a cushion All very well having a parachute. 1) have you ever used one? 2) could you get out to use it? My brother had one but he couldn't get out of the Lancaster Exactly my thoughts !! It takes ages to be trained to use one properly...
by ASR
Fri May 29, 2020 12:19 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Pongo - Eric Littlefield
Replies: 34
Views: 18526

Re: Pongo - Eric Littlefield

I found myself on stage playing opposite Pongo in a Barnes A House Play (can't remember what) where it was my job to have a conversation with him – to the amusement and amazement of the house – while provocatively fiddling with a cigarette doing his tapping thing on the fag box meanwhile trying to t...
by ASR
Sun May 17, 2020 11:32 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: The school glider
Replies: 15
Views: 7223

Re: The school glider

Yes, I was part of the team pulling the bungee cord on Little Side in the early 1970s to propel the glider a few inches off the ground. Also remember going up in Chipmunks at White Waltham, doing aerobatics, rolls, stall turns and barrel rolls . . . amazing to think those Chipmunks are still flying ...
by ASR
Wed May 06, 2020 9:56 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: What were your thoughts about the theatre?
Replies: 21
Views: 9525

Re: What were your thoughts about the theatre?

I don't remember Wounded Knee, but it seems that DNP had a definite western theme going when he first arrived, as I was in the last (I think) Big School production, Indians, centred around Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. No wooden horses, but I seem to recall there was a real pony, surely too small ...
by ASR
Sun May 03, 2020 6:36 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Pongo - Eric Littlefield
Replies: 34
Views: 18526

Pongo - Eric Littlefield

I was in Pongo's house, BaA, from 1966-1969. Does anyone have a potted bio of him? The rumour was he'd been a Spitfire pilot in WWII. He smoked Rothmans continuously, was single, taught French in a desultory manner, had a fondness for running his hands through your hair, beat me with a gym shoe and ...
by ASR
Sun May 03, 2020 6:20 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: RIP Graham Enderby 62-71
Replies: 5
Views: 3661

Re: RIP Graham Enderby 62-71

Sad news - just read the Guardian obit. Can anyone tell me what senior house he was in? I was in Peel A 69-73 and wondering if he was too, two years ahead of me? His name is so familiar, though not someone I knew. He leaves a great legacy.
by ASR
Fri Jan 17, 2020 10:31 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Bishop Ball documentary BBC2 2100 TONIGHT
Replies: 73
Views: 109849

Re: Bishop Ball documentary BBC2 2100 TONIGHT

And here’s the current Bishop of Gloucester in response

https://twitter.com/GlosDioc/status/1217097091211845632
by ASR
Fri Jan 17, 2020 8:48 am
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Bishop Ball documentary BBC2 2100 TONIGHT
Replies: 73
Views: 109849

Re: Bishop Ball documentary BBC2 2100 TONIGHT

Here's the Guardian article about St Paul's School that Rob refers to above . . .

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... ate-school
by ASR
Wed Jan 15, 2020 11:13 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Bishop Ball documentary BBC2 2100 TONIGHT
Replies: 73
Views: 109849

Re: Bishop Ball documentary BBC2 2100 TONIGHT

If you want to watch on BBC iPlayer you have 27 days from now. I'd recommend all of it, but especially episode 2 which is illuminating on how institutions can behave in a cover-up. Links here: Ep: 1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000dbq7/exposed-the-churchs-darkest-secret-series-1-episode-1 ...
by ASR
Wed Jan 15, 2020 11:11 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Bishop Ball documentary BBC2 2100 TONIGHT
Replies: 73
Views: 109849

Re: Bishop Ball documentary BBC2 2100 TONIGHT

Watched the second part tonight - harrowing. The use of the phrase “non-recent” abuse or “historical abuse” by CH has always grated with me - somehow made it maybe feel like ages ago, and maybe somehow less significant.....but have never been able to articulate quite why. The documentary explained ...