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by rockfreak
Wed Sep 13, 2023 8:53 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Photographs that shaped the urban landscape
Replies: 5
Views: 16992

Re: Photographs that shaped the urban landscape

Some of the pics are by Tony Ray-Jones who was contemporary with me in Col B in the 1950s. He went on to be a renowned social documentary photographer and died tragically young.
by rockfreak
Mon Aug 28, 2023 7:11 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
Replies: 21
Views: 113669

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 homose...
by rockfreak
Sun Aug 27, 2023 3:35 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
Replies: 21
Views: 113669

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

I knew that I'd seen it called Christ's in some instance and, looking it up, it turned out to be by no less than Charles Lamb in an essay called Poor Relations. "Poor W_ was of my own standing at Christ's, a fine classic and a youth of promise. Many a quarrel have I had with him, when we were r...
by rockfreak
Mon Aug 14, 2023 1:40 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Freaky returns to Sussex (by the sea)
Replies: 4
Views: 12427

Re: Freaky returns to Sussex (by the sea)

The Freakster has made it to eighty,
An age that appears quite weighty.
He survived it at Housey
Where the food was quite lousy
But wouldn't go back again matey.
by rockfreak
Wed Aug 02, 2023 10:46 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: teaching relevance in later life
Replies: 24
Views: 47241

Re: teaching relevance in later life

Thinking back to history lessons under Chern, I do wonder whether we were especially privileged. Christ's Hospital in the 1950s would surely have followed the elite boarding school pattern of bigging up our empire (remains of which were still floating about). But although we were taught about Clive ...
by rockfreak
Fri Jul 28, 2023 8:20 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Freaky returns to Sussex (by the sea)
Replies: 4
Views: 12427

Freaky returns to Sussex (by the sea)

Yesterday I turned 80. The day before, Mick Jagger (and Katherine's brother P Hills), turned 80. What have we learned? Well I'm surprised that the private schools and the boarding schools are still with us. When John Le Carre ran away from Sherborne during the war he said that he thought that after ...
by rockfreak
Sat Jul 01, 2023 1:00 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Freaky in the FT
Replies: 38
Views: 36195

Re: Freaky in the FT

The Freakster rides again, after a long lay-off. My letter in today's Weekend FT is titled: "Home truths about the capital's unaffordability". About how the Thatcher/Lawson housing ideology has merely made housing (rented or bought) more expensive and left less money in people's pockets to...
by rockfreak
Sun May 07, 2023 10:03 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: CH and slavery
Replies: 15
Views: 48977

Re: CH and slavery

This anti-semitism thing is a bit of a minefield. While in no way wanting to racially profile people (except in jest) it is a fact that the Jews do seem to have a strong ethnicity which people seem to notice (unlike for instance the Belgians, the Sudanese, or indeed the English).There's an old sayin...
by rockfreak
Sat May 06, 2023 9:40 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Strange CH connection with Coronation
Replies: 3
Views: 1485

Re: Strange CH connection with Coronation

Does anyone else have an actual memory of the 1953 coronation? I was in the old Prep B at the time. We were given a few days holiday. I remember my dad picking me up from Victoria station the day before the ceremony and walking back along the Mall where people were already camping out. We'd been inv...
by rockfreak
Fri May 05, 2023 8:02 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: CH and slavery
Replies: 15
Views: 48977

CH and slavery

Come on guys! Has no-one seen the Guardian's exposure of CH benefitting from slavery? Connections with Edward Colston? Dear oh dear! Are we all Daily Mail readers? Doesn't anyone read a proper newspaper?
by rockfreak
Sun Feb 05, 2023 8:53 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: staff accommodation
Replies: 47
Views: 37183

Re: staff accommodation

Kit invested in a bicycle, in his case with a pedal on just one side to accommodate his wooden leg (Sejintenej will attest to this), while Kirby cycled around with the much-loved Chlorine draped around his neck when she was finally unable to hobble after her master.
by rockfreak
Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:10 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: CH role in Coronation
Replies: 5
Views: 3845

Re: CH role in Coronation

For a 21st century king
There should be an absence of bling.
Away with the canopy
And all other panoply,
They're clearly no longer the thing.
by rockfreak
Sat Jan 14, 2023 8:08 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: teaching relevance in later life
Replies: 24
Views: 47241

Re: teaching relevance in later life

Going back a bit into your post Keibat, I'm interested that you concentrated so much on 18th century military campaigns. If you'd had Chern I feel that he might well have concentrated on the Enlightenment, which after all has given us the freedoms that we so take for granted today. I had Chern in my...
by rockfreak
Fri Jan 13, 2023 8:32 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: teaching relevance in later life
Replies: 24
Views: 47241

Re: teaching relevance in later life

That's terrible Keith that a series of loud bangs should have screwed up your hearing. I can't imagine why someone should have been exposed to bangs like this. Are you still able to listen to music? My own experience, on a more pop level, involved getting tinnitus from going to too many rock concert...
by rockfreak
Wed Jan 11, 2023 7:54 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Punishment system
Replies: 16
Views: 41360

Re: Punishment system

We never had yellow cards and red cards in my day (1950s). What for? Two-footed tackles? Abusing the ref? Last defender taking out the striker?