cold showers and brown water
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cold showers and brown water
does anyone remember teh wondeful colour of the water throught eh lav ends taps? especially after a holiday? or if you were one of the last in the shower how there was no hot water........fun fun
just got remindined by my uni halls once again not having hot water.
just got remindined by my uni halls once again not having hot water.
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Cold Showers - baths more like!
Does anyone else remember the compulsory cold baths that were de riguer in Prep B in Mr Pink's reign? ..... after prayers and nose-blowing at the end of the beds, the queues of shivering little boys that were required one after the other to plunge right into a bath fillled to the brim with ice cold water?
As for brown water, there was nothing to beat the happy social occasion when four boys at a time would share the tepid brown soup of the Middleton A trough after rugby on Little Side. Christ's Hospital cows were grazed there during the holidays so that the opening matches of term produced an authentic farmyard odour guaranteed to overcome the problems of smelly armpits in the days before deoderants were ever considered worthy of use by the healthy adolescent male.
As for brown water, there was nothing to beat the happy social occasion when four boys at a time would share the tepid brown soup of the Middleton A trough after rugby on Little Side. Christ's Hospital cows were grazed there during the holidays so that the opening matches of term produced an authentic farmyard odour guaranteed to overcome the problems of smelly armpits in the days before deoderants were ever considered worthy of use by the healthy adolescent male.
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Only four? In LaA everybody went in the trough after a game and the water by the end of it was the colour of brown windsor soup and the consistency of oxtail. Especially nasty after a wet-weather game of "touch" rugby on the patch of ground by the 1stXV pitch.four boys at a time would share the tepid brown soup of the Middleton A trough after rugby
Do you recall the 4 inch mark in the lav end baths? This was a relic of wartime "rationing" (saving on hot water I assume) and one was in deep poo if caught bathing in deeper than the regulation water level.
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cold showers & brown water
Brown water wasn't the only hazzard - in Col A, (I guess because we were near to the watertower) we often turned on the bath tap & got feathers & 'bits' along with the water - those pigeons got everywhere!
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Re: Cold Showers - baths more like!
It hadn't changed 10 years later, Dave, though the housemaster was Alan Eagle.DavebytheSea wrote:Does anyone else remember the compulsory cold baths that were de riguer in Prep B in Mr Pink's reign? ..... after prayers and nose-blowing at the end of the beds, the queues of shivering little boys that were required one after the other to plunge right into a bath fillled to the brim with ice cold water?
As for brown water, there was nothing to beat the happy social occasion when four boys at a time would share the tepid brown soup of the Middleton A trough after rugby on Little Side. Christ's Hospital cows were grazed there during the holidays so that the opening matches of term produced an authentic farmyard odour guaranteed to overcome the problems of smelly armpits in the days before deoderants were ever considered worthy of use by the healthy adolescent male.
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i remember going back to help with entrance exams, i turned the shower on and it was all brown.
repulsive.
but i let it run for a while and it returned to being clear.
repulsive.
but i let it run for a while and it returned to being clear.
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No showers at Hertford, baths on alternate nights by rota.
Juniors used all the hot water so sixth form always got cold baths.
No nose blowing (I do remember this being in a copy of the Blue of my era tho') but our housemistress (Mrs Winstone) gave us 2 senokot for the first three Saturday nights each term in case the change in the water made us constipated.
Also in the winter the lowest 2 years got a spoonful of malt a day after breakfast.
Was this only in 2's?
Juniors used all the hot water so sixth form always got cold baths.
No nose blowing (I do remember this being in a copy of the Blue of my era tho') but our housemistress (Mrs Winstone) gave us 2 senokot for the first three Saturday nights each term in case the change in the water made us constipated.
Also in the winter the lowest 2 years got a spoonful of malt a day after breakfast.
Was this only in 2's?
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Oh Come On, Angel !englishangel wrote:No showers at Hertford, baths on alternate nights by rota.
Juniors used all the hot water so sixth form always got cold baths.
No nose blowing (I do remember this being in a copy of the Blue of my era tho') but our housemistress (Mrs Winstone) gave us 2 senokot for the first three Saturday nights each term in case the change in the water made us constipated.
Also in the winter the lowest 2 years got a spoonful of malt a day after breakfast.
Was this only in 2's?
She just loved waiting up to hear the patter of running tootsies, and the sound of..........................
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We used to palm them and throw them away. This was Hertford not Outer Mongolia.J.R. wrote:Oh Come On, Angel !englishangel wrote:No showers at Hertford, baths on alternate nights by rota.
Juniors used all the hot water so sixth form always got cold baths.
No nose blowing (I do remember this being in a copy of the Blue of my era tho') but our housemistress (Mrs Winstone) gave us 2 senokot for the first three Saturday nights each term in case the change in the water made us constipated.
Also in the winter the lowest 2 years got a spoonful of malt a day after breakfast.
Was this only in 2's?
She just loved waiting up to hear the patter of running tootsies, and the sound of..........................
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We had cascara - the infamous "Black Draught"englishangel wrote:
No nose blowing (I do remember this being in a copy of the Blue of my era tho') but our housemistress (Mrs Winstone) gave us 2 senokot for the first three Saturday nights each term in case the change in the water made us constipated.
Also in the winter the lowest 2 years got a spoonful of malt a day after breakfast.
Was this only in 2's?
Or could it be, indeed, the world dropping out of your ..........?Euterpe13 wrote:Indeed - though some of us saved them for unmentionable revenge purposes " is the bottom dropping out of your world ?...)
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