House numbers
Moderator: Moderators
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 3287
- Joined: Mon Dec 26, 2005 10:44 pm
- Real Name: Katharine Dobson
- Location: Gwynedd
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!
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!
Katharine Dobson (Hills) 6.14, 1959 - 1965
- DavebytheSea
- Forum Moderator
- Posts: 2036
- Joined: Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:33 am
- Real Name: David Eastburn
- Location: Nr Falmouth, Cornwall
Strange indeed!. .... but is this a recognised post? I cannot now remember there being such a thing in my day.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?
David Eastburn (Prep B and Mid A 1947-55)
- ben ashton
- Grecian
- Posts: 504
- Joined: Sun Nov 28, 2004 12:11 pm
- Real Name: ben ashton
- Location: Woolwich, London
- Contact:
- englishangel
- Forum Moderator
- Posts: 6956
- Joined: Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:22 pm
- Real Name: Mary Faulkner (Vincett)
- Location: Amersham, Buckinghamshire
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 3287
- Joined: Mon Dec 26, 2005 10:44 pm
- Real Name: Katharine Dobson
- Location: Gwynedd
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!!!englishangel wrote:We didn't have our names on anything, just our house numbers. But we didn't have to supply tapes either.
Katharine Dobson (Hills) 6.14, 1959 - 1965
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 2880
- Joined: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:55 am
- Real Name: Angela Marsh
- Location: Exiled Londoner, now in Staffordshire.
Suspender Belts
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.
Love
Munch
Love
Munch
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.Katharine wrote: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!!!englishangel wrote:We didn't have our names on anything, just our house numbers. But we didn't have to supply tapes either.
Mary
CH 1965-1972
CH 1965-1972
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 2880
- Joined: Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:55 am
- Real Name: Angela Marsh
- Location: Exiled Londoner, now in Staffordshire.
P S
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!
-
- Deputy Grecian
- Posts: 215
- Joined: Thu Feb 23, 2006 2:55 pm
- Real Name: Liz Jay was Liz Plummer
- Location: York UK
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??MKM wrote:I think we washed them ourselves; they didn't go to the laundry.
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.
Love
Liz (was Plummer now Jay)
Ex - Sixes ''66 - ''68
Ex - Sixes ''66 - ''68
- englishangel
- Forum Moderator
- Posts: 6956
- Joined: Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:22 pm
- Real Name: Mary Faulkner (Vincett)
- Location: Amersham, Buckinghamshire
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.
I do remember putting on wet stockings though, or one wet and one dry,I always seemed to only have 3.
"If a man speaks, and there isn't a woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"
- cj
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 1738
- Joined: Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:35 pm
- Real Name: Catherine Standing
- Location: Devon
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.
Catherine Standing (Cooper)
Canteen Cath 1.12 (1983-85) & Col A 20 (1985-90)
Any idiot can deal with a crisis. It takes a genius to cope with everyday life.
Canteen Cath 1.12 (1983-85) & Col A 20 (1985-90)
Any idiot can deal with a crisis. It takes a genius to cope with everyday life.
- Great Plum
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 5282
- Joined: Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:59 am
- Real Name: Matt Holdsworth
- Location: Reigate
Well, it wasn't a recognised post, but your 'grand nursemaid' was your nursemaid's nursemaid etc etc...DavebytheSea wrote:Strange indeed!. .... but is this a recognised post? I cannot now remember there being such a thing in my day.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?
Maine B - 1992-95 Maine A 1995-99
-
- Button Grecian
- Posts: 4101
- Joined: Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:19 pm
- Real Name: David Brown ColA '52-'61
- Location: Essex
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)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.
What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution.
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
What happens if all of them drown? That is solution!!!
- J.R.
- Forum Moderator
- Posts: 15835
- Joined: Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:53 pm
- Real Name: John Rutley
- Location: Dorking, Surrey
I could embellish on your second highlighted quote, but would probably encounter the wrath of the Hertford crew, David !sejintenej wrote: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)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.
John Rutley. Prep B & Coleridge B. 1958-1963.