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I thought it was Sgt Fielder, the Headmaster's gofer and chapel warden, who ran the Post Office?

On reflection, I think you are correct. Thanks. OU

I remember Sagger Magger Carter, whose explosive speech delivery was certainly easily to imitate. I cannot offer any anecdotes or background information (his regiment, etc). I recall he did his full-time job efficiently and also with his wife ran the CH Post Office. His son (Peele A?) could produce ...

Could you post Caulkin’s poem? Its title quoted a pre-WW2 poem called Slough by John Betjeman (1906 - 1984) with a first line “Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!” The entire poem can be found at http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/intuition/Slough.html The following describes Betjeman’s poem and is tak...

The check on "male attributes" also looked for the absence of a hernia. (Do you remember that you were asked to cough?) Agreed that some psychiatric disorders could not be recognised during the short medical. There is another thread about Bed-wetting, which describes how it caused at least...

Thanks John.

I cannot help John Saunders in his search for a hotel, but I stayed in a perfectly satisfactory yet simple B & B at Partridge Green, about 10 miles away. To stay there a car will be necessary. I can give more details if they are required. Many years ago there were cottages near to the CH Station...

Thanks, Karl. Have a good weekend.

I’d haunt my old house, since my most deeply engrained memories are centred there. But even before I become a ghost, something of me already hangs around the place.

But when was the Garden Quad so named? In my day it was the Science Quad. Where/what is Wapplegate?

How different Col A was from other Houses. Elsewhere the crusts, whether misshapen or not, were great delicacies. One served oneself with bread, by going to the end of the house’s table, nearest to the kitchens, and cutting from a very long Prewett’s loaf what one wanted. Even during the time when b...

If you are still having problems with Windows Explorer, here’s a solution that works well for me. Download another web browser and retain the two permanently in your computer. I did this (with Google Chrome as the second) and kept the two icons (Windows Explorer and Google Chrome) on both the deskto...

The only recollection I have of Rider was his objection to my using a ball point pen for a piece of work that I handed in to him. “Don’t ever use a boot polish pen again,” he said.
Oliver

If we’re talking about funny poems with CH connections, what about part of an “Entertainment” for the school in 1919, the headmaster Rev AW Upcott’s last year? It featured a recitation by Miss Upcott of her humourous contribution to Punch. Can anyone find it? (Other delights offered at that Entertai...

The above criteria seem plausible. One very surprising choice for senior grecian was the Mackenzie mentioned already, who was a pleasant fellow, yet satisfied very few of those criteria. There were other strong candidates. At the time it was rumored that he was chosen because he was a relative of HL...

Here’s a bit more about expulsion, which comes from a letter written by C Byers Lamb B, 1918-22. He describes one event in 1918, the last year of Headmaster Rev Dr AW Upcott’s regime. “Public flogging of boys, was then a regular occurrence, happening about once a year. However on one memorable occas...

The Reverend Tubby Clayton, a chaplain in the trenches of the First World War, is probably unknown to most readers. He was a co-founder of Toc H, an unusual very broad Christian Fellowship organisation, which arose from experiences in that war and provided a haven for all ranks behind the lines, wit...