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by Chapeau Brun
Thu Sep 11, 2014 4:57 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Films at CH Horsham
Replies: 34
Views: 10282

Re: Films at CH Horsham

Early seventies in big school it was Great Expectations, something else in black and white, then, shock horror, Zulu. After that we got the Theatre and it was never quite the same. I became a projectionist. Can still recall the nightmare of trying to spool the entirety of 'Spartacus', a five-reeler,...
by Chapeau Brun
Thu Sep 11, 2014 4:30 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Gruesome Encounter of the Newsome Kind
Replies: 61
Views: 43246

Re: Gruesome Encounter of the Newsome Kind

Ah; Toad in his pomp, through the 70's. Avuncular, Paternal, Often distant. Not especially scary after the first couple of 'house visits', when he'd stand at the end of the common room talking at us, hands in pockets, absent-mindedly rubbing his groin against the pockets of the snooker table. Proud ...
by Chapeau Brun
Thu Sep 11, 2014 4:07 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Pranks in Chapel
Replies: 21
Views: 9665

Re: Pranks in Chapel

On at least one occasion during the 1970's, UIVMM, for no obvious reason, I seem to recall a cold sausage making it's way the length and back of several rows during a service. No idea where it came from. Made us smile.