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by Pe.A
Thu Sep 14, 2023 11:30 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
Replies: 21
Views: 113636

Re: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years

In my day, the 1950s, we were certainly kept busy, with compulsory games as well. So we were knackered physically and mentally. This led to a lively discussion between the late Dr Scuffil and myself as to whether this was deliberate to keep our minds off sex, which then would have been of the homos...
by Pe.A
Thu Sep 14, 2023 11:23 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
Replies: 21
Views: 113636

Re: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years

I think we know that boarding school life is not for everyone. Unlike many Old Blues, I was brought up with parents who hoped I’d go to CH, my brother started at Horsham when I was just 5. We brought our sons up telling them that they would go to boarding school at the age of 8 or 9. I think that s...
by Pe.A
Fri May 12, 2023 3:00 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: CH and slavery
Replies: 15
Views: 48953

Re: CH and slavery

I did have one thought about it. A large percentage of the demographic make-up of CH is now BAME, with a great number of pupils of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Perhaps continuing to educate black pupils that would otherwise be unable to afford a public school education is ultimately the best use of som...
by Pe.A
Fri May 12, 2023 2:57 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: CH and slavery
Replies: 15
Views: 48953

Re: CH and slavery

Edward Colston went to CH, as I understand it, as well as being a governor and benefactor. It's odd how most of that article is essentially about CH, where as it points out, the 'Big Five' - Eton, Harrow, Charterhouse, Winchester and Westminster - all also have extensive financial links to slavery....
by Pe.A
Sat Oct 29, 2022 1:32 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Girlie Magazines, Pin Ups and Other Such Things
Replies: 9
Views: 25107

Re: Girlie Magazines, Pin Ups and Other Such Things

dsm wrote: Fri Oct 28, 2022 3:07 pm They were called bog mags back in my day (late 70s). Someone brought one over from Scandinavia. We'd never seen anything like it in our lives. Almost too much for us hot-blooded teenagers.
Bog mags. Made me chuckle even more. It's been a while since I've heard that term...
by Pe.A
Wed Oct 26, 2022 9:43 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Girlie Magazines, Pin Ups and Other Such Things
Replies: 9
Views: 25107

Re: Girlie Magazines, Pin Ups and Other Such Things

There was often an explicit magazine tear-out to be found stuck onto the inside of the same downstairs toilet door in Pe B. Glad I didn't really think at the time how many might have "made use" of the sight. If it was taken down, another picture would reappear a day or two later in a cons...
by Pe.A
Tue Oct 25, 2022 11:50 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Girlie Magazines, Pin Ups and Other Such Things
Replies: 9
Views: 25107

Re: Girlie Magazines, Pin Ups and Other Such Things

Back in the days of Flecker and Seaman, what was the status of papers such as Titbits and Reveille, not to mention the News of the World? Was possession of such things a thrashable offence? And what of the now-very-tame-seeming '50s-style pin-ups showing girls in one-piece or two-piece swimsuits, c...
by Pe.A
Mon Jun 06, 2022 9:22 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Punishment system
Replies: 16
Views: 41318

Re: Punishment system

I remember drills being a run around the mile on a Sunday morning, but I think they evolved into something more productive. There were green cards too, although they might have been academic rather than behavioural. I am sure that if you were rusticated you had a few weeks of either red or yellow c...
by Pe.A
Wed Jun 01, 2022 8:21 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Punishment system
Replies: 16
Views: 41318

Re: Punishment system

Suspension Expulsion - interestingly enough I knew a boy who was "asked to leave", he (or his family) said no, he actually stayed at the school and did fine in the end. I think this was a good example of how the pastoral care at CH could make a positive change in the lives of especially t...
by Pe.A
Mon Feb 28, 2022 11:30 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Puke Fight!
Replies: 60
Views: 478806

Re: Puke Fight!

It did. How so...? You mean how do I know kids were being physically bullied? Um, by being bullied myself, seeing others on my year and below copping it too, and talking to the years above me. I think it was the phrasing in the earlier post which threw me a bit. But, for example, was it worse on yo...
by Pe.A
Mon Feb 28, 2022 8:44 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Puke Fight!
Replies: 60
Views: 478806

Re: Puke Fight!

scrub wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 7:34 pm
AMP wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 6:03 pmI don't know what happened in PeA after I left and before Endacott took over. Whether physical bullying manifested itself, who knows?
It did.
How so...?
by Pe.A
Mon Feb 28, 2022 8:39 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Puke Fight!
Replies: 60
Views: 478806

Re: Puke Fight!

You are absolutely spot on Ioringa in your assessment. In the 80s staff were virtually non existent in senior houses. Only one member of staff springs to mind and he was a contemporary of John Snow and I certainly would not blame him for what was going on. He was a top bloke and a very nice man. On...
by Pe.A
Mon Feb 28, 2022 5:29 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Puke Fight!
Replies: 60
Views: 478806

Re: Puke Fight!

Which pupils of the 60s became masters in the 80s and 90s...? Were there many...? I don't know the answer to this particular question but what would undoubtedly have been the case is that a significant number of members of staff would have been educated in the 1960s. I wonder whether the laissez fa...
by Pe.A
Sun Feb 27, 2022 11:16 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Films at CH, 1956-1960
Replies: 17
Views: 45102

Re: Films at CH, 1956-1960

AMP wrote: Sat Feb 26, 2022 4:02 pm In The Theatre, Saturday evenings, post 1960:


Somebody obviously liked Jenny Agutter
Who wouldn't....??
by Pe.A
Sun Feb 27, 2022 11:02 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Puke Fight!
Replies: 60
Views: 478806

Re: Puke Fight!

I've commented on this before, but I would be interested to see if any of my peers would think that I'm looking back through rose-tinted spectacles. I have no recollection of this sort of thing going on in the 60's. Rigid hierarchy, yes. But physical punishment by monitors had been banned the year ...