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by Lizzyfrog
Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:59 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Hertford Memories - The Book
Replies: 231
Views: 57029

Re: Hertford Memories - The Book

I have pm'd Lizzyfrog for advice (per-lease?) Angela - will pm you back but just a quick note here as I'm logged on. I'll be really delighted to help in any way I can, how exciting! My basic advice is to just go ahead and get it all down as the muse takes you: your writing is just wonderful, as man...
by Lizzyfrog
Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:33 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Hertford Memories - The Book
Replies: 231
Views: 57029

Re: Hertford Memories - The Book

[quote="MaryB"]( I remember that DR asked me what music I liked and how horrified my mother was when I reported that I'd said "the Beatles and the Rolling Stones" (this was 1964). The latter wasn't true - I must have thought for some reason that it would impress the panel. Oh Mar...
by Lizzyfrog
Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:57 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Nancy Cordery
Replies: 26
Views: 5705

Re: Nancy Cordery

[quote="Jo"][quote="Alexandra Thrift"] I had Miss Barrett too. My main memory of her is that she coached and conducted the school orchestra, and was desperate to load it with violinists virtually as soon as they could pick the thing up the right way. Well, that's really depressed...
by Lizzyfrog
Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:17 am
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Aqua Manda
Replies: 105
Views: 43786

Re: Aqua Manda

I'd have said Margaret Churchill was some years above us, and if Cathy Walsh is the person I'm thinking of, she was the year above (ie the year I started in) and she had lived in Damascus. DR often brought it up in Scripture lessons and we (rather unfairly) used to bitch about Cathy going on about ...
by Lizzyfrog
Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:37 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Aqua Manda
Replies: 105
Views: 43786

Re: Aqua Manda

Yes, I believe that the older sister was allowed to choose the younger sister's house, though I'm quite sure DR would have assumed a power of veto if she didn't agree for any reason. Wasn't there another Osborne sister as well? Tina? Possibly younger than Judi. I don't remember being consulted abou...
by Lizzyfrog
Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:48 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: "ALL GIRLS TOGETHER"
Replies: 108
Views: 27127

Re: "ALL GIRLS TOGETHER"

This was even before my self-esteem hit total rock bottom after being sent inexplicably to coventry by three girls in my house year for a full term. . The same thing happened to me in the 4th form. I do not, to this day, understand the transgression that led to this cruel treatment. i once asked, s...
by Lizzyfrog
Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:31 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: "ALL GIRLS TOGETHER"
Replies: 108
Views: 27127

Re: "ALL GIRLS TOGETHER"

Hello FRA - yes, I did (and do!) have a younger sister, Alison, who was in 8s for a couple of years. Were you a contemporary of hers/ours? I remember she was friendly with a girl called Carina Williams... She and I both found boarding school very hard - if you remember her you may also recall that ...
by Lizzyfrog
Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:47 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Hertford Memories - The Book
Replies: 231
Views: 57029

Re: Hertford Memories - The Book

Hmm... I've had lots of suggestions and potentially inspiring ideas for putting together this book. The last book of Hertford reminiscences by the distinguished Audrey Griggs covers the period from 1937 - 1944, and is very much a personal memoir, but thanks to the Forum we have loads of individual ...
by Lizzyfrog
Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:36 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Aqua Manda
Replies: 105
Views: 43786

Re: Aqua Manda

Does anyone remember the toiletry trends we had? I'd not been at CH long when everyone seemed to go wild about Yardley's Sea Jade talc. The common consensus held that Miss Morrison also used it. Not long after that, the next fad was Coty's Aqua Manda, which was altogether much more funky, came in a...
by Lizzyfrog
Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:15 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Hertford Memories - The Book
Replies: 231
Views: 57029

Re: Hertford Memories - The Book

Just had a couple of random and unrelated thoughts from the old days..... When we were allowed to go into town to go shopping, there was always the confusion and lack of clear understanding, by townspeople, of exactly what kind of institution we were. I know the staff of Woolworth's seemed to think...
by Lizzyfrog
Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:46 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: "Screw Kick!"
Replies: 118
Views: 39568

Re: "Screw Kick!"

Pulleymaid! What did we call it? Was it just "the rack"? Dryer? Can't remember. I can also remember Nellie Norman telling us to mind our fingers on the mangle. She wasn't a bad sort. I can still hear Nellie Norman's voice yelling at me "Elizabeth F, will you PLEASE just lift up the f...
by Lizzyfrog
Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:30 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Housemistresses
Replies: 408
Views: 90722

Re: Housemistresses

We didn't actually have to go and ASK for a packet of Dr Whites but we did have to sign them out in a little book kept in the drawer with them. Whether it was ever checked or not I have no idea. And I thought the cleaners replaced the Izal loo paper. Yes, I think perhaps we had to sign a little boo...
by Lizzyfrog
Sat Aug 01, 2009 1:05 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: "ALL GIRLS TOGETHER"
Replies: 108
Views: 27127

Re: "ALL GIRLS TOGETHER"

Speaking of art, did other houses have a big-deal Christmas "Decs" event? Was it perhaps competitive between houses? In 7s I think it was a lower or upper fifth project...they spent weeks planning and preparing the most amazing, intricate creations and then put them up in the dayroom while...
by Lizzyfrog
Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:46 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: Housemistresses
Replies: 408
Views: 90722

Re: Housemistresses

Having recently discovered this site I can't stop reading it! It's amazing and cathartic for me to find you lovely women writing about things I remember which affected me very deeply but which I have never really shared with anyone. Having read through all the posts here in one sitting last night, I...
by Lizzyfrog
Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:41 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: "ALL GIRLS TOGETHER"
Replies: 108
Views: 27127

Re: "ALL GIRLS TOGETHER"

Hello FRA - yes, I did (and do!) have a younger sister, Alison, who was in 8s for a couple of years. Were you a contemporary of hers/ours? I remember she was friendly with a girl called Carina Williams... She and I both found boarding school very hard - if you remember her you may also recall that s...