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- Sat May 10, 2014 11:03 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Edward Malins
- Replies: 27
- Views: 18351
Re: Edward Malins
In the writings about EG Malins so far, only his military, equestrian and intellectual qualities have been mentioned. There is more to add! I was in the school Colts (under 16 rugby team) in 1954 and 1955 and our coaches then were Kit Aitken and Gad Malins.
- Sun Mar 16, 2014 6:09 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Shared Senior Drum Major
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1825
Re: Shared Senior Drum Major
Many congratulations Tom and Henry!
I cannot help you, but please explain what “switching coats” means to an old, old OB, who long ago auditioned unsuccessfully to become a drum major?
I cannot help you, but please explain what “switching coats” means to an old, old OB, who long ago auditioned unsuccessfully to become a drum major?
- Sun Feb 09, 2014 4:10 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Smoking by CH pupils
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5684
Smoking by CH pupils
In the thread ‘The Manual School’, the suggestion was made of setting up a new thread about Smoking. Although I never smoked at CH, I’ll start it. The area behind the Manual School was a favourite haunt for smokers, so the Manual School thread included plenty of references to smoking. But what intri...
- Thu Dec 05, 2013 9:07 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: The Matron's Inspection
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5450
Re: The Matron's Inspection
Each junior had a bath once a week One result of the unavailability of a daily bath, meant that it was a great privilege at CH. So when a monitor I (and very many others) indulged in a bath virtually every night. That’s something that has stayed with me for over 60 years. When convenient I still ta...
- Tue Nov 05, 2013 5:51 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Michael Cherniavsky
- Replies: 93
- Views: 63683
Re: Michael Cherniavsky
Until the widespread rise of Redbrick there were few viable university options for Blues who could not get some sort of Oxbridge scholarship or exhibition to sustain them. CH therefore tried to get everybody through school cert or, as it became, GCE, and then to place those with no hope of Oxbridge...
- Thu Oct 24, 2013 8:15 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Pranks in Chapel
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9702
Pranks in Chapel
Following Geoffrey Cannon’s recent, excellent suggestion in the thread “Grace”, that the current topic be added, here’s a contribution. One Grecian, of course sitting in the back row, never put any coins the Collection Bag, as it was passed from hand to hand. His technique was to make an appropriate...
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 5:45 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH Masters as Authors
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4579
Re: CH Masters as Authors
Perhaps postwarblue’s comment is not so bizarre. The very best (maths and other) teachers often did not use a text book and W. Armistead was one of themBizarre. There was I, a Maths Grecian, and never had any idea that Wm A had written a textbook.
- Sun Oct 20, 2013 5:43 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH Masters as Authors
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4579
Re: CH Masters as Authors
Perhaps postwarblue’s comment is not so bizarre. The very best (maths and other) teachers often did not use a text book and W. Armistead was one of them.
- Mon Oct 14, 2013 7:42 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Swimming
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2726
Re: Swimming
Swimming sessions that I remember were of several types. 1. There were extra sessions, typically before breakfast on summer weekends, with a house master volunteering to be responsible for the bathers. Not all house masters did this, mine never. 2. There were compulsory swimming lessons for those wh...
- Sun Oct 13, 2013 8:52 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Reading to the dormitory
- Replies: 74
- Views: 21630
Re: Reading to the house
In a sense, “Reading to the House”, included House “Duty”. This was the evening spiritual readings in the dayroom on the 6 days without Evening Chapel, after first prep and just before juniors went to bed. In my house only the house captain read and one of the two housemasters always attended. The “...
- Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:11 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: World War 2, CH Teachers, etc
- Replies: 24
- Views: 10670
Re: World War 2, CH Teachers, etc
by michael scuffil » Tue Aug 27, 2013 3:51 pm Was not Mr Tod also from Marlborough? I seem to recall David Jesson-Dibley saying he was there with Louis MacNeice. Did we have any Etonian, Harrovian or Wykehamist masters? I don't know about masters who attended the above schools, but Ian Sutherland (c...
- Wed Oct 02, 2013 7:16 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Ballroom and other dancing at Horsham
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5220
Ballroom and other dancing at Horsham
About 50 years ago there were informal ballroom dancing classes for senior boys (Grecians only?) who wanted to learn to dance. Volunteer females sometimes attended the classes to assist and to dance the women’s steps. I think the senior groundsman’s wife and a few others, like young trainee dieticia...
- Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:55 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Rugby/games jerseys
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1565
Rugby/games jerseys
So what about rugby/games jerseys? In the 50s and 60s every house had a different colour scheme (2 colours and varying patterns, but always horizontal stripes). I can’t remember most of them, but am sure Thornton A had odd colours - orange and purple, in equal stripes, about 2 in. wide. I’m less sur...
- Mon Sep 09, 2013 8:28 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Punishments at CH
- Replies: 80
- Views: 29375
Re: Punishments at CH
Although beating (i.e. caning on the bottom) was generally accepted in the decades after the second world war, I agree that it probably reflected something else on the part of the beater, as indicated by Michael, who wrote; I remember Pongo Littlefield in Barnes A as being a beater with the cane for...
- Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Masters' Nicknames
- Replies: 76
- Views: 21630
Re: Masters' Nicknames
There is another possible origin for Windy Whitfield’s nickname. His predecessor as junior housemaster in Barnes B was Windy McCracken and so unsurprisingly Whitfield inherited the nickname, perhaps because of the alliteration. McCracken had acquired the name after an occasion when he released flatu...