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by Foureyes
Sat Feb 19, 2022 1:51 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Puke Fight!
Replies: 60
Views: 478792

Re: Puke Fight!

As a matter of historical interest, occasional public no-holds barred fights between individuals is a long-standing Housie tradition and there are records of such fights at Newgate Street in the 1850s when two individuals would agree to fight over some cause. The meeting-place was always at the foot...
by Foureyes
Sun Feb 06, 2022 9:09 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Films at CH, 1956-1960
Replies: 17
Views: 45100

Re: Films at CH, 1956-1960

My time at Housie was 1949-55 and we certainly saw films then, but in three venues. The first was in Horsham when the whole school marched to a cinema in the town to see a very recent film. I can certainly recall seeing two - the Coronation film and on another occasion Scott of the Antarctic. I thin...
by Foureyes
Mon Jan 31, 2022 1:00 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: REAR-ADMIRAL TOM BRADBURY, CB, OLD BLUE
Replies: 4
Views: 1953

REAR-ADMIRAL TOM BRADBURY, CB, OLD BLUE

Interesting obit in today's (30 Jan 2022) Daily Telegraph on Tom Bradbury (LaA 34-39). Brought up in Walworth, his grandfather was a horse tram driver, his father a labourer and his mother a pickled onion seller. He won an LCC scholarship to C.H. and the rest was a steady rise to the top of his prof...
by Foureyes
Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:21 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Freaky in the FT
Replies: 38
Views: 36120

Re: Freaky in the FT

I posted: " That is both very unpleasant and uncalled for. If you cannot do better than that, I suggest that you keep your opinions to yourself ." I was not offended by what Rockfreak wrote - it was par for the course where he is concerned. What I was endeavouring to suggest was that it is...
by Foureyes
Sat Nov 27, 2021 10:46 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Freaky in the FT
Replies: 38
Views: 36120

Re: Freaky in the FT

Rockfreak,
That is both very unpleasant and uncalled for. If you cannot do better than that, I suggest that you keep your opinions to yourself.
David :shock:
by Foureyes
Wed Nov 24, 2021 1:15 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Housey Soap
Replies: 3
Views: 1457

Re: Housey Soap

" Not sure about the answer to the question - but I am sure the soap has a more reputable origin." The statement that the soap was made at Housie is correct - at least in the late 40s/early '50s. It came from a building beyond the gymnasium and was an ecologically sound product from waste ...
by Foureyes
Sat Nov 20, 2021 11:13 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
Replies: 53
Views: 35445

Re: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'

Otter says: " I didn't realise there was originally a different meaning of the term "non-foundationer". I always understood it to mean a pupil who had a parent (or sometimes two) as a member of staff, and so slept at their own home on-site and did not board. " The term 'non-found...
by Foureyes
Wed Nov 17, 2021 8:46 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'
Replies: 53
Views: 35445

Re: Telegraph article: Pupils at prestigious public school will receive lessons in 'white privilege'

rockfreak wrote: Tue Nov 16, 2021 8:24 pm: " I had no idea that Edward Colston was an old boy. They keep quiet about that one. " I don't know who is meant by 'they.' The fact that Colston was a 'non-foundationer' has been known since about 1650 and no attempt has ever been made to hide it....
by Foureyes
Tue Nov 02, 2021 1:39 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Ben Breakwell convicted of abuse
Replies: 109
Views: 223976

Re: Ben Breakwell convicted of abuse

Totterdell writes: " ...like you I feel so sorry for the family. This takes me back to the Martin trial where it became clear that the family knew nothing... I think that at times we forget the consequences on others of the actions taken. " I completely endorse this. As an author I was app...
by Foureyes
Sun Sep 26, 2021 6:32 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Roger Allam in Radio Times
Replies: 62
Views: 32118

Re: Roger Allam in Radio Times

Have read the article. The way I read it, he recalls rather more positives than negatives about CH, although I accept that six masters sent to prison is a definite negative. Like John Hopgood I have no recollection whatsoever of having to address senior boys as 'sir'. Certainly not in Lamb 1949-55, ...
by Foureyes
Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:37 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: ANOTHER FAMOUS BUT FORGOTTEN OLD BLUE
Replies: 2
Views: 1126

ANOTHER FAMOUS BUT FORGOTTEN OLD BLUE

Current media reports concern the demolition of the Dorman Long tower at Middlesborough. That once world-famous steel firm was co-founded by an Old Blue Sir Arthur John Dorman, 1st Baronet, KBE (August 1848 – February 1931) (CH 1856-63). His greatest and most enduring monument, and one in which CH s...
by Foureyes
Sat Sep 04, 2021 4:40 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Bursaries Shmursaries
Replies: 11
Views: 2147

Re: Bursaries Shmursaries

" I never met nor knew the name of "my" governor until the Office told me long after her death. From what they told me I have worked out how she was "found" and where the money came from ." I was 'presented' by the RMS (father in RN) so cannot speak from personal experi...
by Foureyes
Fri Sep 03, 2021 7:11 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Bursaries Shmursaries
Replies: 11
Views: 2147

Re: Bursaries Shmursaries

" I think it is the Webb presentations which are based in Newbury ..." I think that you may be mistaken and that what you are really referring to is the West's Gift which covers the Reading area and, for reasons I have never understood, Twickenham. . It has been going since the 17th centur...
by Foureyes
Thu Sep 02, 2021 8:10 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Bursaries Shmursaries
Replies: 11
Views: 2147

Re: Bursaries Shmursaries

"We know about Barnes Wallis and the Royal Mathematical School, but can CH match any of these other schools for Bizarre Bursaries?" First, there are no bursaries associated with the Royal Mathematical School. There were at one time, but it stopped sometime in the middle of the Nineteenth ...
by Foureyes
Mon Aug 30, 2021 10:08 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Old Blue Summer Visit 2021
Replies: 4
Views: 1149

Re: Old Blue Summer Visit 2021

Katharine, I accept that Hertford girls do not have a physical school to return to. But the boys of the pre-1902 period did not have a school to return to either, after the move to Horsham. These things happen. I also hope that you do not feel that Hertford has been forgotten. I know of one male Old...