From what did you drink your tea when at CH?

midget · Post by **midget** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:39 pm

I think the crested crockery started to diminish during the war, when missing bits were replaced by plain ones. Good luck with your bid, Kerren. I've asked the manager of the charity shop where I work to keep an eye open for any bits of CH china. Only last week I was giving them a lesson in how to drink tea from a bowl.

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:59 pm

we had horrible big plastic mugs for ours, that were about an inch thick at the top so made it strange to drink out of them

kerrensimmonds · Post by **kerrensimmonds** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:36 pm

So the bowls are remembered with affection, then - especially by Hertford Old Blues for whom there was a convention about how to hold the bl*ss*d things - let alone memories from both sides about the taste of what the bowls contained when we drank from them. Please watch the eBay sale and pray that I am not scuppered at the last moment. Fingers crossed!

icomefromalanddownunder · Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:49 am

kerrensimmonds wrote:Looks like it. I wonder when the school discontinued the use of bowls in Dining Hall?
I am not surprised that the girls were taught how to drink their tea daintily while the boys did differently.........
If I win the eBay auction it will all come flooding back (how to hold the bowl that is, not the tea!)

Alex, Alex, are you there

I wonder whether the bowls disappeared with Dot: in which case Alex wouldn't have used them in third year Sixth.

Mrs C. · Post by **Mrs C.** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:27 am

kerrensimmonds wrote:Please watch the eBay sale and pray that I am not scuppered at the last moment. Fingers crossed!

I looked for it to see what it was like but couldn`t find it!

jhopgood · Post by **jhopgood** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:44 am

Mrs C. wrote:
kerrensimmonds wrote:Please watch the eBay sale and pray that I am not scuppered at the last moment. Fingers crossed!
I looked for it to see what it was like but couldn`t find it!

Nor could I, what is the description?

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:04 am

blondie95 wrote:we had horrible big plastic mugs for ours, that were about an inch thick at the top so made it strange to drink out of them

They were weird - I found one in my flat the other day!!

jhopgood · Post by **jhopgood** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:11 am

Great Plum wrote:
blondie95 wrote:we had horrible big plastic mugs for ours, that were about an inch thick at the top so made it strange to drink out of them
They were weird - I found one in my flat the other day!!

Obviously a liberated mug.

kerrensimmonds · Post by **kerrensimmonds** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:48 am

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... %3AIT&rd=1

Here's the eBay link

jhopgood · Post by **jhopgood** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:53 am

kerrensimmonds wrote:http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... %3AIT&rd=1

Here's the eBay link

Good luck.

I'm sure we had no convention for holding bowls.

kerrensimmonds · Post by **kerrensimmonds** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:10 am

A left-handed friend of mine remembers getting into trouble for a) not holding the bowl in her right hand and b) not holding it properly. Some housemistresses were not always very sympathetic people!

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:55 pm

Great Plum wrote:
blondie95 wrote:we had horrible big plastic mugs for ours, that were about an inch thick at the top so made it strange to drink out of them
They were weird - I found one in my flat the other day!!

when i have been back to do the entrance exams at xmas I use them again and they are really wierd, made everything taste like plastic!

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:24 pm

kerrensimmonds wrote:Looks like it. I wonder when the school discontinued the use of bowls in Dining Hall?

They didn't. We still used bowls for tea and coffee when the school closed in 1985.

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:26 pm

Ruthie-Baby wrote:the taste of the tea was rather 'special' - really strong from an urn made from catering size teabags. strangely i quite like urn-tea now...

Have to agree with that. the tea from the urns at CH Horsham was lovely!

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:30 pm

apart from when they hadn't cleaned the urn properly and it had recently had coffee in it!