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by ZeroDeConduite
Thu Mar 11, 2021 12:34 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Flecker’s Banning of some Comics
Replies: 19
Views: 8048

Re: Flecker’s Banning of some Comics

The only comic permitted in Peele A was The Eagle, which was allowed because it had been produced (by an Anglican vicar) to specifically counter the 'pernicious' influence of the imports from the US.
And a very fine read it was... "Dan Dare Pilot Of The Future".
by ZeroDeConduite
Tue Feb 23, 2021 10:09 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Was Rock 'n' Roll Banned at CH in the Fifties?
Replies: 29
Views: 9340

Re: Was Rock 'n' Roll Banned at CH in the Fifties?

Peele A in the 1950s never had Radio Luxembourg on the house radio, and there was virtually no other broadcaster of post-56 Elvis/Chuck Berry style music to listen to When the BBC started broadcasting in FM in the later part of the 50s I helped the housemaster select a suitable new house radio to re...
by ZeroDeConduite
Thu Jan 28, 2021 10:35 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Prince Charles, Bernard Levin and Shakespeare
Replies: 3
Views: 1682

Re: Prince Charles, Bernard Levin and Shakespeare

"Does anyone know why?" I came after Levin's time, but I was slightly junior to one of the actors who went on to be in the cast of Levin's 'Oh Calcutta' (and Hair). In our day CH (pre 1960ish) the ethos espoused by the school and its active alumni was very very distanced from the fringe a...
by ZeroDeConduite
Thu Jan 07, 2021 12:07 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: UNDERGROUND BUNKER
Replies: 10
Views: 4043

Re: UNDERGROUND BUNKER

"Florida Blue » I remember what we referred to as a concrete "Pill Box", much as described by LongGone, in the woods overlooking the Arun from the west side about a mile or so from the station." I remember that one, as I used to pass it frequently in the late 50s on my way to li...
by ZeroDeConduite
Thu May 14, 2020 3:18 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: The CCF Signals Section
Replies: 19
Views: 7853

Re: The CCF Signals Section

"Another single example of a special big, very heavy set, normally used in a tank, was also available." That was a 22 set, which came with a full power supply and a Class D wavemeter to tune it accurately. With a calculated full wave aerial hung up in the lime trees outside Uncle's classr...
by ZeroDeConduite
Thu May 07, 2020 10:35 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: The school glider
Replies: 15
Views: 7217

Re: The school glider

As I remember (hazily) the one in the late 1950s was in effect a horizontal bungee jump – merely a training aid designed to give at most a few seconds of 'flying' experience a few inches off the ground. The bungee was stretched by a sort of rugby scrum then a restraining mechanism was released. I do...
by ZeroDeConduite
Wed Apr 15, 2020 3:02 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Now it reaches Eton
Replies: 51
Views: 28448

Re: Now it reaches Eton

"Remember we were not allowed outside the ring fence except to go to the gym and pool or with an authorised adult. I know some people used to fish in the farm pool as well...." I don't remember any of that ;-) Peele A must have existed in an alternate universe. Every time we were allowed ...
by ZeroDeConduite
Sat Feb 29, 2020 12:40 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: RIP Jasper Griffin
Replies: 5
Views: 2753

Re: RIP Jasper Griffin

Quote from Guardian article: "He did not enjoy boarding but thrived academically..." With him a Grecian and me as a squit, I remember his face displaying a supercilious disdain for the whole process of the school's regime treating everyone essentially like an 11 year-old in every field apa...
by ZeroDeConduite
Thu Feb 13, 2020 2:29 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Cross-country runs
Replies: 45
Views: 30770

Re: Cross-country runs

Peele A had 'triangles' (around the road triangle near the railway bridge), and 'level crossings' to the crossing by Eastlands Copse (where the old railway branched off). And weekly mandatory house runs round/through Shelley's Wood and back over Sharperhurst hill then to the aforementioned level cro...
by ZeroDeConduite
Mon Dec 23, 2019 10:00 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Old Blue Clearout
Replies: 34
Views: 17197

Re: Old Blue Clearout

the small car that was manhandled during break in the 1/4 mile and wedged between 2 trees... I seem to remember that was an Austin 7 (the pre-war variant) belonging to to a junior master (maybe music?) and the man-handling was done, very easily, by Beaky Davies and a fellow Harlequin rugby player. ...
by ZeroDeConduite
Wed Oct 02, 2019 7:40 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Poulton, Cairncross, Sillett
Replies: 61
Views: 34643

Re: Poulton, Cairncross, Sillett

Todays' BBC West news bulletin contained a report of the IICSA's ongoing residential schools investigation into Wells Cathedral School - where, but for her retirement last year, Cairncross would have been the one interviewed about the 2007 conviction for pupil-abuse at the school by a staff member. ...
by ZeroDeConduite
Sun Jul 28, 2019 5:32 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: RIP BRYAN MAGEE
Replies: 11
Views: 10275

Re: RIP BRYAN MAGEE

by ZeroDeConduite
Fri Jul 26, 2019 3:45 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: CH Letter re support for abuse survivors
Replies: 28
Views: 20687

Re: CH Letter re support for abuse survivors

Bullying was institutionalised and endemic during my time at CH for sure, between 1985 and 1992. In-house hierarchies gave kids power over each other - and some abused it, to a greater or lesser extent. ...bullying has now moved online and can be just as nasty, if not worse, than the CH I remember....
by ZeroDeConduite
Mon Jul 01, 2019 11:04 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: The Red Dean and CH
Replies: 2
Views: 1826

Re: The Red Dean and CH

The CCF in 1959 (I think) had a week long summer camp, based at the army camp at Shorncliffe near Folkstone. The objective of the exercise was for the whole CCF to route march to Canterbury, capture the Red Dean's underpants and march and back - over four days.... As far as I remember it was the off...
by ZeroDeConduite
Mon Jun 24, 2019 5:03 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: 1968 and all that
Replies: 16
Views: 5108

Re: 1968 and all that

CH Medical Officer Trevor Hoskins, writing in June 1978, had this to says: In a decade since student unrest reached its height, and those of us working in schools saw its effect on schoolchildren, with an unprecedented questioning of authority and the entire basis of the educational system. Opting o...