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by dsm
Fri Dec 22, 2023 3:48 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: A Happy and Peaceful Christmas
Replies: 3
Views: 6070

Re: A Happy and Peaceful Christmas

Hear hear
by dsm
Wed May 17, 2023 3:35 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Christ's Hospital Singers LP
Replies: 8
Views: 3934

Re: Christ's Hospital Singers LP

I think I recognise Julian Berkeley, Clive Whitehead, Quintin Brown and Bill Biddell. Not sure about the spelling of some of them.
by dsm
Sat May 06, 2023 9:15 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: CH and slavery
Replies: 15
Views: 49019

Re: CH and slavery

A bit radical. Do you support schools with a history of slave money and child molesting? I don't think you should tar the school for the actions of a tiny minority or boycott a newspaper for letting one cartoon slip through the net (it was later removed with an apology).
by dsm
Fri Mar 10, 2023 5:51 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Just a coincidence?
Replies: 6
Views: 2309

Re: Just a coincidence?

Here’s one. My brother was born in a hospital in Malta as our dad was in the Navy and was posted there. Well, 25 years later, living in southwest England he met a girl and they started going out. It turned out that she had been born the same week in the same hospital as him as her circumstances were...
by dsm
Sat Feb 18, 2023 7:32 pm
Forum: Barnes Photos
Topic: Barnes B striped rugger shirts
Replies: 7
Views: 8886

Re: Barnes B striped rugger shirts

Middle row, numbers 2 and 3 are Andy Quest and Derek Cuff, I think.
by dsm
Sat Dec 10, 2022 6:42 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Bring back proper rugby
Replies: 8
Views: 3782

Re: Bring back proper rugby

I’m with you on this one Freaky. What is the point of a scrum if you can more or less put the ball in to your second row??? As an ex Thorn B scrum half, I just don’t get it.
by dsm
Fri Oct 28, 2022 3:07 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Girlie Magazines, Pin Ups and Other Such Things
Replies: 9
Views: 25157

Re: Girlie Magazines, Pin Ups and Other Such Things

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.
by dsm
Wed Oct 05, 2022 6:57 am
Forum: The CH Old Blues' Association - Discussion
Topic: Ian Page
Replies: 1
Views: 5262

Re: Ian Page

I seem to remember a Page. Was he very tall and thin? Maybe Thorn A.
by dsm
Mon Sep 26, 2022 5:56 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: David Newsome
Replies: 15
Views: 14243

Re: David Newsome

Stature metaphorically speaking maybe. Newsome was small and well, toadlike.
by dsm
Sat Sep 24, 2022 7:15 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: David Newsome
Replies: 15
Views: 14243

Re: David Newsome

I had one year with Seaman, the rest with Newsome as head. He was known as The Toad and gave out plenty of canings (as did many teachers in that era, so is not really a criticism. For that see plenty of posts on Sillett and his infamous tangents). I have no idea why he moved on to Wellington after n...
by dsm
Sun Jun 19, 2022 7:29 am
Forum: General
Topic: Another St Matthews Day photo 1972 ?
Replies: 3
Views: 7432

Re: Another St Matthews Day photo 1972 ?

I recognise Bill Biddell (who played rugby in the Varsity match) and Colin Nesbeth, the only black boy in the photo. The whole school trip to Westminster Abbey was summer term 1973, I believe.
by dsm
Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:51 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
Replies: 53
Views: 35463

Re: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'

Sejintenej, you've got your verbs mixed up in Spanish. Tengo calor is the perfect way to say you are hot, it's too warm, you feel hot. However, a direct translation from the English I am hot would be estoy caliente which would imply you've got the hots, you are sexually attracted. So, that's probabl...
by dsm
Sun Feb 27, 2022 8:31 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Puke Fight!
Replies: 60
Views: 478838

Re: Puke Fight!

AMP- you were punched in the face repeatedly until the House Captain broke his wrist??? What??? Sounds like Nazi Germany or a Gulag rather than a school in Sussex in the 90s! Your face must have been a bl**dy mess by the time he broke his wrist. What did matron, other masters, less sadistic monitors...
by dsm
Wed Aug 18, 2021 9:18 am
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Ken Grimshaw
Replies: 57
Views: 119900

Re: Ken Grimshaw

Just come across this thread. I remember Mr Grimshaw as a young man in the 70s. I was useless at manual work but managed to make a cross in metalwork and a lamp in woodwork which I still have. I notice that two of the teachers were a Mr Perry and Mr Wyncoll (Periwinkle).
by dsm
Mon Apr 26, 2021 8:16 am
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Dorm Raids
Replies: 10
Views: 17253

Re: Dorm Raids

If I remember correctly, in the 70s (and presumably before and maybe after) they weren't pillows, they were bolsters. Now that must have hurt :rolleyes: .