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- Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Hammer blows to CH finances
- Replies: 39
- Views: 11101
Re: Hammer blows to CH finances
I would suspect that is fees become VATable then the fact the school is now split as school and then the foundation "buyng"places for foundationers would mean that non foundationers paid VAT but the charity "the foundation" was able to reclaim VAT on the fees it paid the school f...
- Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:24 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Vegetarians
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3911
Re: Vegetarians
My Mate Time "Veggie" was strictly vegetarian throughout our time at CH in the 80's and there was for the first 5 years no provision other than the fact Dr Hoskyns prescribed him Cheddar & Apples to be administered by Matron he just didnt eat the meat part of meals. Remember this is al...
- Wed Sep 26, 2018 11:18 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Explanation of the 'Tube'
- Replies: 47
- Views: 24605
Re: Explanation of the 'Tube'
I still have quite vivid memories of the tube network having spent many happy hours walking and smoking in it. One of my usual activities was removing a light bulb, placing a coin in the socket, replacing the bulb and switching the light back on. The resulting darkness allowing me further protectio...
- Fri Sep 21, 2018 3:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Attitudes to sports
- Replies: 51
- Views: 14856
Re: Attitudes to sports
80's we had Rugby in Michaelmas, Hockey or Football in Lent and Cricket/athletics in Summer. I think Football had been introduced by Hailey, he definitely seemed to be the force behind it. By then we had coaching in Rugby even in junior houses although it was obviously not up to club standards. Ther...
- Thu Sep 20, 2018 11:52 am
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: All this is incredibly sad
- Replies: 163
- Views: 67276
Re: All this is incredibly sad
Up until the block system came into being I would say that as the population of the senior houses were at least partly self selected you would end up with people with similar interests banding together and creating a "house culture" which would take a major event (like the block system) to...
- Tue Sep 18, 2018 5:38 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: REMOVAL OF CHOBA MEMBERSHIP
- Replies: 34
- Views: 12306
Re: REMOVAL OF CHOBA MEMBERSHIP
Very true - if this it to become a "remove CHOBA membership for all old blues with a criminal conviction" thread, naming them all, it will become very long thread
- Tue Sep 18, 2018 1:40 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: REMOVAL OF CHOBA MEMBERSHIP
- Replies: 34
- Views: 12306
Re: REMOVAL OF CHOBA MEMBERSHIP
Pretty sure 2 years not 4 as she started in her deps one of the first 3 girls the year before the merger with Sarah Jeffers & Sidonia Porteus, her sister Kate did 4 years but started the following year i think.
- Thu Sep 13, 2018 3:29 pm
- Forum: Looking for....
- Topic: Old Blue Scientists???
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5636
Re: Old Blue Scientists???
Since the 80s at least, the general attitude had been to look down on science, as far as I can tell. Certainly, a talented rugby player would receive more attention than a potential scientist. And anyway, what's the point, when someone with a chemistry degree will probably waste all that knowledge ...
- Mon Sep 10, 2018 5:20 pm
- Forum: Parents - Past, Present & Future
- Topic: Help the newbie!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15285
Re: Help the newbie!
in the 80's you were specifically requested not to have contact with parents for first 3 weeks (other than letters) to apparently stop homesickness !! By the way the bit about school "team kit" will be that if they are in a school team the shirts at least will be specific to the team and t...
- Mon Sep 10, 2018 5:13 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Annoying car man
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7243
Re: Annoying car man
Have cars got that much wider since 1990 or was it never designed to be used by a car on a regular basis? Basically "yes" all that side protection 1990 Ford Escort 66.6" 2017 Ford Focus 71.8" 1990 Asta 65.4" 2018 Astra 71.2" Add to that the fact that in 1990 an Escort ...
- Thu Aug 30, 2018 10:28 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: When You Left CH, Did You Cease to Have Access to the Musical Instrument You'd Learned How to Play?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 15253
Re: When You Left CH, Did You Cease to Have Access to the Musical Instrument You'd Learned How to Play?
i joined the school at the same time my great grandfather died leaving an instrument to the school - he had been a lab tech and very good cornet player and played with some form of big band/dance band at the school in the 50's (Laurie was his name). I was immediately given the instrument and thus it...
- Wed Aug 29, 2018 9:10 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Congratulations to this year's Grecians and their new Headmaster
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12132
Re: Congratulations to this year's Grecians and their new Headmaster
the trouble with Oxbridge now is you can only apply to one of them in a year, so once he put down Cambridge he could not apply to Oxford even though Cambridge would not even interview him. One of my younger brothers contemporaries at CH had the same happen to them, a flat rejection from Cambridge, s...
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 11:28 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Congratulations to this year's Grecians and their new Headmaster
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12132
Re: Congratulations to this year's Grecians and their new Headmaster
Well all i know is that this years cohort is the one my son would have been in but CH didnt think he would fit in, so he boarded elsewhere on a scholarship/bursary better than the indicative CH one we had at the time and is off to Warwick on the back of 3xA*in Maths, Further Maths & Physics + A ...
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 5:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Congratulations to this year's Grecians and their new Headmaster
- Replies: 37
- Views: 12132
Re: Congratulations to this year's Grecians and their new Headmaster
Sorry wrote a post then realsied about gcse's not alevels so deleted PS just found my son who is off to Warwick to do Maths has made contact with others going there on social media and that includes this year's Maths button Grecian who was amazed he guessed her school from a couple of clues (miles f...
- Tue Aug 28, 2018 12:21 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Phone boxes
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7770
Re: Phone boxes
The phone boxes were painted green in the 80's 3 in total that i knew of , Pe LH & near Wardrobe. just before the girls came they instead put phones in each house in the under stairs broom cupboard. Someone soon worked out that whilst they were coin phones they were owned buy the school not BT a...