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by eucsgmrc
Wed Oct 19, 2016 1:04 pm
Forum: Coleridge Photos
Topic: Col A - is this 1960?
Replies: 19
Views: 10908

Re: Col A - is this 1960?

... if you took it, John, how long a delay did you give it? You're there in the top row, which must have involved a climb. Well spotted, Michael. Actually there was no delay. I used a camera with no such sophistication. I had to get somebody - fortunately, I forget who - from Col B to fire the shut...
by eucsgmrc
Mon Oct 03, 2016 9:32 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Housey Coat 'badge'
Replies: 25
Views: 9192

Re: Housey Coat 'badge'

michael scuffil wrote:By becoming a Grecian, you left the Mathematical School.
Just so. The RMS was training you specifically for the Royal Navy, and by your early teens you should have been a midshipman. If you were still at the school, you would be, to put it mildly, a disappointment to your sponsors.
by eucsgmrc
Mon Oct 03, 2016 12:03 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Housey Coat 'badge'
Replies: 25
Views: 9192

Re: Housey Coat 'badge'

I can see that the badge system might create social distinctions, but at Christ's Hospital there is not much reason for any pupil to be looked down on because they have rely on charity to keep them at the school. The whole idea of the school is that nearly everybody is in that position. Only a small...
by eucsgmrc
Fri Sep 30, 2016 12:50 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Housey Coat 'badge'
Replies: 25
Views: 9192

Re: Housey Coat 'badge'

Since nobody else has responded, I'll try to dredge up my memories from 60 years ago ... -what are they actually called? The thing was called a plate -what percentage, approximately, of the students have them? (I saw very few in Google Images) I never counted, but I might have seen one or two plates...
by eucsgmrc
Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:41 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: CH as Sitcom
Replies: 4
Views: 2149

Re: CH as Sitcom

Were these places just very large versions of Craggy Island with a few lonely matrons dotted around like token Mrs Doyles? I had never thought of that, but now I will never be able to get rid of the idea! A few years ago, on one of my first visits to Ireland, we stayed in a hostel on Achill Island....
by eucsgmrc
Thu Jul 28, 2016 5:26 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Folk Music
Replies: 20
Views: 6935

Re: Folk Music

... A whole wedge of our culture lost, lost for ever! Not really. They're in many published song books, in all kinds of arrangements. Some of them did indeed have a previous life as folk songs, but before we got to sing them they had been tidied up for "community singing" as approved by t...
by eucsgmrc
Thu Feb 25, 2016 4:34 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: PETITION: Is 26% Full-Fee Paying Pupils Too High?
Replies: 112
Views: 34844

Re: Is 26% Full-Fee Paying Pupils Too High?

The aim now is to set-up an online Petition 1552 and Katharine is helping. I would like to sign the petition. I would prefer to sign on paper. I don't in general sign on-line petitions, which have become very much devalued. It is too easy to set them up. There are thousands of them, and they can ge...
by eucsgmrc
Mon Feb 22, 2016 6:36 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Politics
Replies: 624
Views: 236657

Re: Politics

HowardH wrote:He is a buffoon if he thinks that anyone with an iota of intelligence will take him seriously.
He doesn't care about anyone with an iota of intelligence. He thinks that they are outnumbered by the followers of sound-bites and clowning. He may be right. Plenty of other politicians share that view.
by eucsgmrc
Mon Feb 22, 2016 4:54 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Politics
Replies: 624
Views: 236657

Re: Politics

Boris - I have seen more brain cells in a puddle. The man's a buffoon of the highest order. If only that were true! The buffoon is a pose, or, if not a deliberate pose, a facade that comes easily to him. Boris is clever, and ambitious, and he uses his cleverness and his buffoonery to distract peopl...
by eucsgmrc
Mon Feb 22, 2016 12:03 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: GUILDFORD-HORSHAM TRAIN
Replies: 9
Views: 2996

Re: GUILDFORD-HORSHAM TRAIN

The system is slightly more complicated than Martin says, as if there was just one token it might end up at the wrong end of the section. The basic token system which Martin describes is very safe, but so restrictive that it is virtually useless for anything more than a simple slow shuttle service....
by eucsgmrc
Sat Feb 20, 2016 10:04 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Carols from Christ's Hospital, Hertford - LP
Replies: 2
Views: 2188

Re: Carols from Christ's Hospital, Hertford - LP

I have two copies of that, and one of them may actually be playable. When I get home from Lowestoft (don't ask), I'll see whether I can digitise it. Give me a prod if you hear no more of this in, say, three weeks.

Or does anybody know where this recording is already available on-line?
by eucsgmrc
Sun Feb 07, 2016 11:37 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Split-out post from the Petition/FFP topic.
Replies: 32
Views: 8692

Re: Is 26% Full-Fee Paying Pupils Too High?

... I spotted you among a line of other satirical youths proceeding into the Science block with your books balanced on your heads in the manner of native women. Would you perhaps have been going into Mr Goodall's class and would this perhaps have been a reference to Goodall's nickname of "Bwaa...
by eucsgmrc
Sun Feb 07, 2016 4:24 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Split-out post from the Petition/FFP topic.
Replies: 32
Views: 8692

Re: Is 26% Full-Fee Paying Pupils Too High?

Avon wrote:This interweb thing is tough, isn't it?
So true. I'm sure Rockfreak and John Brougham and J.R. would get on just fine over a pint, notwithstanding their obviously different viewpoints, but web conversation is a sure way to wind things up. Ah, don't you just love the brotherhood?
by eucsgmrc
Wed Jan 27, 2016 2:12 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Daily Timetable
Replies: 38
Views: 16165

Re: Daily Timetable

I'm very impressed that Michael can remember things with such precision. I couldn't have written that timetable down, but, now that I see it, every detail fits my recollections. Except possibly the evenings, which perhaps varied from house to house. I don't remember any third segment of prep in Col A.
by eucsgmrc
Sat Jan 16, 2016 5:03 pm
Forum: Hertford Memories
Topic: End of term
Replies: 22
Views: 15475

Re: End of term

I wonder when the radiators, rather ugly looking edifices I recall, were installed. I believe they were part of the original 1902 build, whose architecture concealed a plan in the grand Victorian engineering style. The whole school was heated and powered from a boiler house next to the gym and the ...