Leavers' Bibles

kerrensimmonds · Post by **kerrensimmonds** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:48 pm

Well, I was given boxes for both of mine. The box for the Bible was gold, and lined with tissue paper. It had a bottom and a lid (which is probably why so many of these Bibles which now appear on eBay come up as in pristine condition). Unfortunately the box was damaged by water when the fire brigade entered my house in December 1990. But the Bible itself is still in very good nick.. and it is treasured, as yes, I do use it on occasion.
The prayer book was in a red cardboard slip in cover, in which it still sits (it must have been elsewhere when my house got damaged by firemens water!). But they both have been very heavily used over the years and the box and the prayerbook show significant signs of loving use (so they wouldn't fetch much on eBay!).

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:49 pm

Mid A 15 wrote:I received a prayer book (as well as the bible) but I was not a button grecian.

I was a house monitor but other than that no distinguishing features

Ditto.

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:56 am

Just six months before Kerren left, I did NOT get a box for my bible! I think they may just have forgotten as there were only 6 of us leaving. We did, however, get our bibles given to us in chapel which did not happen to all Christmas leavers. My prayer book does have a slip cover.

Angela Woodford · Post by **Angela Woodford** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:03 am

Katharine wrote:Just six months before Kerren left, I did NOT get a box for my bible! I think they may just have forgotten as there were only 6 of us leaving. We did, however, get our bibles given to us in chapel which did not happen to all Christmas leavers. My prayer book does have a slip cover.

I do treasure my CH Bible and Prayer Book - I was never awarded any prize, so they are extra special. Both came in a gold box, but the Bible box is falling to bits now - goodness, I must have consulted it from time to time! Oh yes! I think it was David (sejintenev) who signed off with Deuteronomy 22:11. I had to check it out! "Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together". Quite right!

Munch

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:45 pm

Angela Woodford wrote: I think it was David (sejintenev) who signed off with Deuteronomy 22:11. I had to check it out! "Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together". Quite right!

Munch

By chance see this week's signature from Proverbs which is specially for all mothers. If you think that is bad, just be thankful I'm not bringing some of the laws to your attention.

BTW referring to the ribbon on bath chains I have just found the (still valid) law restricting water depth to 3 1/2 inches; of course it is American. We had it in the UK (I think it was 5 inches) because they were trying to conserve precious resources during WWII.

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:18 pm

It was 4 inches during the drought of 1976

JackD · Post by **JackD** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 3:49 am

I left in 1948 with a prayer book and bible printed on "utility paper" but still nicely bound in leather. No boxes. They sit together on a bookshelf and are rather crammed with memorials of friends long gone.

I left at 16 and am not sure why I was given both.

Angela Woodford · Post by **Angela Woodford** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:10 am

JackD wrote:I left in 1948 with a prayer book and bible printed on "utility paper" but still nicely bound in leather. No boxes. They sit together on a bookshelf and are rather crammed with memorials of friends long gone.

Do any Hertford girls remember the custom of giving little religious cards with appropriate messages to friends who were being confirmed? The cards were about three quarters the size of a playing card, and were laid out on the shoe-polished House tables on Confirmation Day. Some had a much bigger stash than others! JackD's Bible "crammed with memorials of friends long gone" made me think of the confirmation cards.

I decided not to be confirmed, but if I'd had confirmation cards, I'm sure I would have kept them and be able now to remember friends...

I went to Florence a couple of years ago, and was thrilled to see an entire wall rack of the cards in one of those fascinating Roman Catholic repository shops. Know what I mean? Crucifixes, rosaries, pictures for your porch of saints in agony, holy water bedside containers, candles, mauve-and-gold decorated ceramic interpretations of Papal sayings and some very snazzy vestments for priests. That sort of thing.

Of course I was reminded of CH when I saw the cards and bought several - Our Lady radiating blessings over the globe and some lovely Renaissance Madonnas which I still use as bookmarks.

(I so enjoyed a good wander round that shop. I heard noise at one end - an enormous American tourist was bellowing furiously over the counter at the little white -clad nun who was trying to help him. "I wanna bigger one! No no bigger than that! Noooo... bigger!!" I was desperate to see what he was trying to buy. I still wonder.)

I do remember that confirmation was taken very seriously at Hertford. You had to ask DR in the ?LV if you could be confirmed, and she would refuse if she thought you were not suitable. It was said that if you asked for confirmation in the V1 form she would agree without question. I don't remember any V1 former being confirmed though.

Munch

icomefromalanddownunder · Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:12 am

Angela Woodford wrote:Do any Hertford girls remember the custom of giving little religious cards with appropriate messages to friends who were being confirmed? The cards were about three quarters the size of a playing card, and were laid out on the shoe-polished House tables on Confirmation Day. Some had a much bigger stash than others! JackD's Bible "crammed with memorials of friends long gone" made me think of the confirmation cards.

Munch

Hi Munch

Yes, and I still have mine.

Love

Caroline

kerrensimmonds · Post by **kerrensimmonds** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:03 am

I still have all of mine, as well....

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:02 am

Angela Woodford wrote:I went to Florence a couple of years ago, and was thrilled to see an entire wall rack of the cards in one of those fascinating Roman Catholic repository shops. Know what I mean? Crucifixes, rosaries, pictures for your porch of saints in agony, holy water bedside containers, candles, mauve-and-gold decorated ceramic interpretations of Papal sayings and some very snazzy vestments for priests. That sort of thing. Prada shoes?

I do remember that confirmation was taken very seriously at Hertford. You had to ask DR in the ?LV if you could be confirmed, and she would refuse if she thought you were not suitable. It was said that if you asked for confirmation in the V1 form she would agree without question. I don't remember any V1 former being confirmed though.

Munch

DR was quite cross that I was not being confirmed but as I wasn't even C of E it really wasn't an option.

I do remember Kathleen (? from 1's mentioned somewhere else re chemistry) being christened and then confirmed.

Angela Woodford · Post by **Angela Woodford** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:15 am

englishangel wrote: Prada shoes?

I had another sort of Heavenly experience of total adoration gazing in the windows of shoe shops

DR was quite cross that I was not being confirmed but as I wasn't even C of E it really wasn't an option.

I do remember Kathleen (? from 1's mentioned somewhere else re chemistry) being christened and then confirmed.

How on earth could DR justify being cross when somebody doesn't want to be confirmed? Appalling!

Munch

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:37 pm

Angela Woodford wrote:
englishangel wrote: Prada shoes?

I had another sort of Heavenly experience of total adoration gazing in the windows of shoe shops

DR was quite cross that I was not being confirmed but as I wasn't even C of E it really wasn't an option.

I do remember Kathleen (? from 1's mentioned somewhere else re chemistry) being christened and then confirmed.
How on earth could DR justify being cross when somebody doesn't want to be confirmed? Appalling!

Munch

Apparently the Pope has a penchant for Prada shoes.

I was so well-behaved that DR thought I should be confirmed so I got my place in heaven

I suppose 'disappointed' would be a better word than cross.

She would have been very 'disappointed' if she had known what I was like at University.

MKM · Post by **MKM** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:45 pm

Angela Woodford wrote:How on earth could DR justify being cross when somebody doesn't want to be confirmed? Appalling!

Munch

In my year DR thought that too few girls had requested confirmation, and so the whole year group was summoned to the school hall for a lecture. I don't know if anyone extra came forward as a result.

I was eventually confirmed about 25 years later. I don't like to hurried, I need time to think things over.

Katharine · Post by **Katharine** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:27 pm

Yes I still have my confirmation cards and they do evoke memories. Sandra Bunch could not be confirmed at the last minute (ill, I think?) she wanted all the cards she had given back so she could add a y to make it your confirmation instead of our.

They weren't put out on the table in my day, can't think how we got them - possibly they were put in your locker?

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