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Ah, well, you see, there you have it; CH didn't go co-ed until long after I'd gone. These girls were from Horsham High, Farlington, etc. etc., mostly met during theatre productions. It was absolutely verboten without specific permission, but I don't recall Mr Higgins ever questioning me on the subject. Also had a bit of a problem at Farlington when we stayed rather late in the girls dorms one Sunday, but that's another story.Tommy wrote:Haha count yourself lucky! I got suspended (rusticated - that's a real Housey word!!) in early 1990 for having a girl in my Dormitory. I'm not sure the Head would have been quite so lenient if he'd known I had broken into Barnes A and woken said girl up before going back with her to Maine A...Brown wrote:Honest, it was all innocent fun.
Aha! It's always fun to hear of accounts of Hertford Lite.Brown wrote:Though I blithely waltzed around the place, I sort of suspect that behind the scenes there was some 'monitoring' of the situation, but then I was a Housey boy, and a friend of the Head girl's brother.
Shame!!
Very seventies C.H.!Brown wrote:... Brown-hatter and Chapeau Brun
I remember Becky Cuddeford, we were in 8's together. She was several years younger than me, as I left age 17 in 1973. Sounded like a lot of the rules got relaxed when Miss Tucker got into the swing of headmistress. Still very strict in Oct 72 on long Sat when a group of us went by train to meet parents/friends at Liverpool St- we tried to put on make-up at the back-gate on the way out, but a member of staff spotted us and furiously told us : 'wipe that muck from your faces' . We were 16 after all for goodness sake!!Brown wrote:hi Midget. No, Andy didn't have a sister, but it could conceivably have been an aunt. Andy's mate Time Cuddeford's sister Becky was head girl in 79. Though I vividly remember some of the experiences when I visited (any red-blooded man would), I (understandably) can't recall too many of the girls' names.midget wrote:Hello Brown. You mention Andy Quest. Did he have a sister at Hertford? I remember the name Barbara Quest, but nothing else about her, except she was there in the late 1940s.
fra828 wrote:I remember Becky Cuddeford, we were in 8's together. She was several years younger than me, as I left age 17 in 1973. Sounded like a lot of the rules got relaxed when Miss Tucker got into the swing of being headmistress. Still very strict in Oct 72 on Long Sat when a group of us went by train to meet parents/friends at Liverpool St- we tried to put on make-up at the back-gate on the way out, but a member of staff spotted us and furiously told us : 'wipe that muck from your faces' . We were 16 after all for goodness sake!! Good to hear that things got better soon after that .Brown wrote:hi Midget. No, Andy didn't have a sister, but it could conceivably have been an aunt. Andy's mate Time Cuddeford's sister Becky was head girl in 79. Though I vividly remember some of the experiences when I visited (any red-blooded man would), I (understandably) can't recall too many of the girls' names.midget wrote:Hello Brown. You mention Andy Quest. Did he have a sister at Hertford? I remember the name Barbara Quest, but nothing else about her, except she was there in the late 1940s.
I don't really remember Becky from school but I got to know her afterwards, when she came to live near me, did a holiday job at the same place, and ended up engaged to a friend of mine. They split up very suddenly and sadly I haven't seen her since. She was fun but I've completely lost track of what's happened to her since.fra828 wrote:I remember Becky Cuddeford, we were in 8's together. She was several years younger than me, as I left age 17 in 1973. Sounded like a lot of the rules got relaxed when Miss Tucker got into the swing of headmistress. Still very strict in Oct 72 on long Sat when a group of us went by train to meet parents/friends at Liverpool St- we tried to put on make-up at the back-gate on the way out, but a member of staff spotted us and furiously told us : 'wipe that muck from your faces' . We were 16 after all for goodness sake!!Brown wrote:hi Midget. No, Andy didn't have a sister, but it could conceivably have been an aunt. Andy's mate Time Cuddeford's sister Becky was head girl in 79. Though I vividly remember some of the experiences when I visited (any red-blooded man would), I (understandably) can't recall too many of the girls' names.midget wrote:Hello Brown. You mention Andy Quest. Did he have a sister at Hertford? I remember the name Barbara Quest, but nothing else about her, except she was there in the late 1940s.
I was fairly sure I knew your name, Richard, but one doesn't like to presume. Yes; I was a hooker, very small for my age a somewhat lacking in a sense of self-preservation. Used to get nose bleeds a lot; in those days, we didn't have to leave the pitch; I used to just run around chasing the opposition with blood streaming down the front of my shirt.Richard Ruck wrote:Very seventies C.H.!Brown wrote:... Brown-hatter and Chapeau Brun
Yes, I think I remember you. Something dredged from the depths of my memory tells me that you left for a year and then returned. Is that right? I'm sure we used to play rugby for the school as 3rd. formers (U.13s, I suppose.......).
I didn't - but I should very much have liked to; a lovely girl.Brown wrote:[Come to think of it, I also spent a bit of time in Helen Watters' company, but then who didn't...
Sounds like I was one of your props, then! U13 B sounds about right.Brown wrote:I was fairly sure I knew your name, Richard, but one doesn't like to presume. Yes; I was a hooker, very small for my age a somewhat lacking in a sense of self-preservation. Used to get nose bleeds a lot; in those days, we didn't have to leave the pitch; I used to just run around chasing the opposition with blood streaming down the front of my shirt.Richard Ruck wrote:Very seventies C.H.!Brown wrote:... Brown-hatter and Chapeau Brun
Yes, I think I remember you. Something dredged from the depths of my memory tells me that you left for a year and then returned. Is that right? I'm sure we used to play rugby for the school as 3rd. formers (U.13s, I suppose.......).
I left at the beginning of LE (my mother remarried and stepfather both disapproved of public school and refused to pay). I was in a local comp in Basingstoke for 4 weeks until I put my foot down and flatly refused to return there, on the grounds that it was absolutely pointless. Eventually, I got my way and was returned to CH in the Summer Term. I think we were in Russian classes together, but I was forced to drop it as I had missed too much. I remember you as being larger than I, and a chum of Kibble's; is that right?
The nicknames were courtesy of Johnny Granger, who went on the grow very tall and be Senior Grecian after I left.
Nice to see that my reminiscences have sparked off some banter about misbehaviour. Wait till I get to the CH stories...
I always wondered how she felt about being 'admired' by around 850 boys.......loringa wrote:I didn't - but I should very much have liked to; a lovely girl.Brown wrote:[Come to think of it, I also spent a bit of time in Helen Watters' company, but then who didn't...
No connection unless you are from Omeath! Yes - I had the same problem which got worse then better then worse then better ................. up to the present time. I remember being sent out of Mr Crosland's class because of a bleed one Monday morning. Dr Scott had taught me a way of stopping it because I had such problems but he was away and the nurses decided to go by the book - I was still streaming Wednesday afternoon when the doctor came back. He shooed the nurses out and allowed me to do "my thing" - it was stopped in under 10 minutes.Brown wrote:somewhat lacking in a sense of self-preservation. Used to get nose bleeds a lot; in those days, we didn't have to leave the pitch; I used to just run around chasing the opposition with blood streaming down the front of my shirt.
He wore a Cambridge MA hood in my day. Perhaps it had something to do with clothes rationing? Wikipedia says of him:NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote: DS McNutt (Senior Classics Master and Ximines of the Times) wore no Hood in Chapel, rumour has it that HE had been Rusticated from Oxford (We know not why) but Oily Flecker had employed him because he was a brilliant scholar.
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