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I suppose we must have had Cash's tapes for the things we provided, what I do remember more are the tapes marked 6.14 in marking ink.

I don't know whether it was the Hag's idea or someone else's but when we were provided with scarves in House colours we just cross stitched our number in a corner in matching thread so it hardly showed. That was a GOOD idea, whoever it was!
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ben ashton wrote:i got the same house number as my great grand nursemaid whose sister went to the same primary school and was in the same year as me...odd?
Strange indeed!. .... but is this a recognised post? I cannot now remember there being such a thing in my day.
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I have in the boot of my car the blanket I used at CH with the cash's name tape still intact showing my name and house number.
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doubt it but makes sense! using ben-logic anyway..and his name was also ben :-o
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We didn't have our names on anything, just our house numbers. But we didn't have to supply tapes either.
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englishangel wrote:We didn't have our names on anything, just our house numbers. But we didn't have to supply tapes either.
Surely we marked our suspender belts etc - did we have more than one -were they ever washed - I cannot remember the answers to any of these questions!!!
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I'm sure we didn't mark our suspender belts, since we provided our own, and rinsed them out when necessary. A garment would stiffen to a horrible degree when dried (baked) on the dorm radiator.

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Katharine wrote:
englishangel wrote:We didn't have our names on anything, just our house numbers. But we didn't have to supply tapes either.
Surely we marked our suspender belts etc - did we have more than one -were they ever washed - I cannot remember the answers to any of these questions!!!
I think we washed them ourselves; they didn't go to the laundry. I only had one (with purple gingham trimming!), and washed it overnight. If it was still wet in the morning then I wore it anyway.
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We could also dry small articles on the slats in the Airing Room. The wooden slats had a really horrible smell when a damp item was placed on them. Sniff!
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MKM wrote:I think we washed them ourselves; they didn't go to the laundry.
I'm sure we washed them ourselves though can't remember what with - would it be carbolic soap from "down the end" or did we have some soapflakes or something??
I can remember washing stockings too in the same manner, and often putting them on still wet the next morning (in winter!).

Alex I was amazed when you said Hertford was WARM. Not in my memories it wasn't!!!! Maybe three years in Singapore had unhinged my internal thermostat.

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I think I used Dreft in a green Tupperware bottle. I had two, a white satin one with a pink bow (bought by an aunt) and a white broderie anglaise one.

I do remember putting on wet stockings though, or one wet and one dry,I always seemed to only have 3.
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Washing underwear by hand was still in force the last 2 years before Hertford closed down. I regale this tale to daughter no. 1 aged 12 years repeatedly as I'm sewing on her name tapes to try and make her realise that she has it easy! We did wear suspenders sometimes at Horsham, but they would never have gone into the school laundry. Washing machines were installed in the girls houses, and when the downstairs changing areas were converted, a drying room was built, but stuff would get nicked if it was left down there too long.
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DavebytheSea wrote:
ben ashton wrote:i got the same house number as my great grand nursemaid whose sister went to the same primary school and was in the same year as me...odd?
Strange indeed!. .... but is this a recognised post? I cannot now remember there being such a thing in my day.
Well, it wasn't a recognised post, but your 'grand nursemaid' was your nursemaid's nursemaid etc etc...
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cj wrote:We did wear suspenders sometimes at Horsham, but they would never have gone into the school laundry. Washing machines were installed in the girls houses, and when the downstairs changing areas were converted, a drying room was built, but stuff would get nicked if it was left down there too long.
I didn't know that he was prowling around Hertford. There's words for people like him such as religious sexual maniac / agnostic pagan / potential for certification. (Sorry, Barbara - you don't come close)
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sejintenej wrote:
cj wrote:We did wear suspenders sometimes at Horsham, but they would never have gone into the school laundry. Washing machines were installed in the girls houses, and when the downstairs changing areas were converted, a drying room was built, but stuff would get nicked if it was left down there too long.
I didn't know that he was prowling around Hertford. There's words for people like him such as religious sexual maniac / agnostic pagan / potential for certification. (Sorry, Barbara - you don't come close)
I could embellish on your second highlighted quote, but would probably encounter the wrath of the Hertford crew, David !
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