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by Jim Rayner
Tue Jul 31, 2018 1:58 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Explanation of the 'Tube'
Replies: 47
Views: 24723

Re: Explanation of the 'Tube'

Is it true that the tube goes all the way out to the station? You can clearly see a bricked up arch at the bottom of the underpass to the other platform... The bricked up arch will because when the lovely old station building was demolished the new one was built on top of what had been platforms 1 ...
by Jim Rayner
Mon Jul 30, 2018 3:35 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Robert Sillett MBE of Billingshurt
Replies: 37
Views: 25723

Re: Robert Sillett MBE of Billingshurt

I believe Joe also setup http://www.tekkers.co.uk I can't see any buy links on the website now though, so not sure if still trading or just problems with website. According to Companies House Jo Sillett (Jonathan Mark Sillett) was a 27% shareholder and director of Tekkers Ltd but pulled out 3 years...
by Jim Rayner
Fri Jul 27, 2018 7:03 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: What was the food chain?
Replies: 70
Views: 19811

Re: What was the food chain?

I've always found these formal dinners very "old school." I think I'm the exception, but I've never seen the attraction of the vanity of dressing up and formal dinners. Travel is easy if you're in London, but otherwise it's a case of late trains/staying over, and all rather expensive once...
by Jim Rayner
Fri Jul 27, 2018 1:22 am
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Who Knew What?
Replies: 221
Views: 68850

Re: Who Knew What?

blueeyedboy wrote: Thu Jul 26, 2018 10:20 pm aka 'Ping'. A generally honourable but quirky sort of a chap, and not an obvious ringleader. Must have been a bad situation indeed to get his dander up.
I can’t speak to his character but he was an absolutely brilliant physics teacher.
by Jim Rayner
Thu Jul 26, 2018 1:49 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: What was the food chain?
Replies: 70
Views: 19811

Re: What was the food chain?

It's easy to find out who the current almoners are, and the current iteration was incorporated in 2005 (see below, slightly worrying there is currently an active proposal to strike off). https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/05498489-the-council-of-almoners-of-christ-s-hospital But what we rea...
by Jim Rayner
Tue Jul 24, 2018 11:24 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Christ's Hospital / The Church of England / Child Abuse
Replies: 98
Views: 29664

Re: Christ's Hospital / The Church of England / Child Abuse

Carey came to Sarawak in the early 90s when we were there. I met him at a couple of functions, I wasn't impressed with him then, and I'm not impressed now. I did hear that the way the CofE chooses Archbishops is that two names go to the PM who makes the final choice. Carey was put down as nobody wo...
by Jim Rayner
Mon Jul 23, 2018 4:46 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Teaching staff
Replies: 38
Views: 11347

Re: Teaching staff

I do remember the sense of awe that came over us during a physics lesson with R Crossland when we were ushered next door to Stan Malone’s lab to get a privileged view of his latest purchase, an electronic calculator. It was about the size of biscuit tin, was plugged into the mains and could perform ...
by Jim Rayner
Mon Jul 23, 2018 10:02 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Phone boxes
Replies: 27
Views: 7778

Re: Phone boxes

I only recall 3 phone boxes. The ones behind the Courtroom and next to the Tuckshop that have already been mentioned, and one next to the Post Office.

I don't remember their numbers but alarmingly I do remember the registration number of Webb's Hillman Imp was LBP224D.
by Jim Rayner
Mon Jul 23, 2018 9:43 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Teaching staff
Replies: 38
Views: 11347

Re: Teaching staff

By heck, when I were a lad doing Maths A level with Ivor McConnell, there was an arrangement with Imperial College who allowed us computer time. We could write programs in something called Fortran 4 and put them onto punchcards using a small bodkin to push out perforated chads. The cards would go of...
by Jim Rayner
Sat Jul 21, 2018 10:05 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Freemasons and questions to answer
Replies: 81
Views: 30601

Re: Freemasons and questions to answer

OK , well I see your point. But actually there aren’t many of them. They claim just 6,000 members. The Ramblers have 107,000 and even the LibDems 100,000, and neither of them have much effective influence.
by Jim Rayner
Sat Jul 21, 2018 7:34 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Freemasons and questions to answer
Replies: 81
Views: 30601

Re: Freemasons and questions to answer

And as an afterthought, the police, (and especially The Met) PLUS the Judiciary are rampanty controlled by 'The Square' as far as promotion or advancement is concerned. No comments about dirty aprons or a frayed raised trouser leg PLEASE. I would have thought (and hoped) that the gradual process of...
by Jim Rayner
Fri Jul 20, 2018 11:06 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Freemasons and questions to answer
Replies: 81
Views: 30601

Re: Freemasons and questions to answer

Still, Masonry isn’t as weird as the Legion of Frontiersmen. Nor as bonkers as the Order of the Garter or even the Panacea Society (who maintain a bedsit in Bedford ready for Jesus to use on his return) . Not that I’ve ever been invited to join either of them, or the masons or the Morris Men or eve...
by Jim Rayner
Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:26 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: CH videos
Replies: 24
Views: 7727

Re: CH videos

Thanks for the links. I'd never seen any of the videos before and watching them now was a strange experience. Seeing again the lunch parades, chapel services and the other CH ceremonies and set pieces, reminded me where my over-developed sense of the ridiculous came from, and why I shy away from cer...
by Jim Rayner
Fri Jul 20, 2018 12:46 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Freemasons and questions to answer
Replies: 81
Views: 30601

Re: Freemasons and questions to answer

Spoonbill wrote: Fri Jul 20, 2018 12:38 pm Are you saying they don't?
Not always, no. Sometimes sellotape or a 6 inch nail will suffice.
by Jim Rayner
Fri Jul 20, 2018 12:36 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Freemasons and questions to answer
Replies: 81
Views: 30601

Re: Freemasons and questions to answer

Possibly the last laugh is theirs; I imagine they are the ones operating the military-industrial complex that governs us all. I don't know about that. The only freemason I remember working with (he was a Worshipful Master or Sublime Goathead Pursuivant, or something equally ridiculous) was also a b...