Old Beds, Settles Etc
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Old Beds, Settles Etc
Now the CH pupils live in deluxe 5 star luxury rooms what happened to the old iron beds , boards, horse hair mattresses and settles 25 or so of which lined the dormitories back in the mists of time?
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Re: Old Beds, Settles Etc
Have you not seen the price of scrap metal recently??!!
I know there's a settle and a bed frame in the museum in the sicker but I'd imagine the majority of the old stuff is now baked bean cans and car body parts.
I know there's a settle and a bed frame in the museum in the sicker but I'd imagine the majority of the old stuff is now baked bean cans and car body parts.
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Re: Old Beds, Settles Etc
True, there was some serious ironwork in the beds, desks and settles, none of which were in a very serviceable state. Those beds alone must have been 100kgs!Tommy wrote:Have you not seen the price of scrap metal recently??!!
I know there's a settle and a bed frame in the museum in the sicker but I'd imagine the majorty of the old stuff is now baked bean cans and car body parts.
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Re: Old Beds, Settles Etc
Wasn't there a big settle sale a few years back? Other than that, I know there are a few dozen in the Scout Hall...
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Re: Old Beds, Settles Etc
Eruresto wrote:Wasn't there a big settle sale a few years back? Other than that, I know there are a few dozen in the Scout Hall...
Shooshh, Josh !!!
The scrap metal thieves will now come-a-looking !
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Re: Old Beds, Settles Etc
There was a big sale one Old Blues Day a while back. I bouight a settle and it fits very snugly behind the sloping back of a sofa. I don't know how one ages a settle, but I believe they go back ages and in fact were brought down to Horsham from London along with the iron bed frames.
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Re: Old Beds, Settles Etc
There are pictures of London wards where the settles are clearly identifiable. In principle I imagine they could date to 1553, but I think they probably date to around 1800.
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Oh, but they were crap. Functional, inelegant, lumpen, shonky rubbish - the sort of thing that gets made in prison.
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Re: Old Beds, Settles Etc
But I have craved one for years .........
.... trouble is I cannot get out of the CH habit of chucking clothes into the settle as I undress. Without a settle to embrace them, they just end on the floor and Judith complains. Please, please help me to find a settle and save my marriage.
.... trouble is I cannot get out of the CH habit of chucking clothes into the settle as I undress. Without a settle to embrace them, they just end on the floor and Judith complains. Please, please help me to find a settle and save my marriage.
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Re: Old Beds, Settles Etc
Keep an eye on eBay, David....... (and your cheque book at the ready)
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Re: Old Beds, Settles Etc
I may need a nudge - but thank you Kerren.
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