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- Fri Feb 22, 2008 3:13 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Search for Watercolour or print of Christ's Hospital
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5753
Re: Search for Watercolour or print of Christ's Hospital
I must admit to being somewhat underwhelmed by the Brierly-Howes pictures, although without seeing the actual thing, it's difficult to be sure. From a distance, they look like photos, and on closer inspection like watercolours -- but what's the advantage of that? I can't see what they've gained in t...
- Fri Feb 22, 2008 2:52 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Search for Watercolour or print of Christ's Hospital
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5753
Re: Search for Watercolour or print of Christ's Hospital
One of us did, yesterday.
- Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:16 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Dutch supermarkets are not like ours!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1662
Re: Nederlandse supermarkten zijn niet wie onze!
Aldi Süd takes in Cologne and Aachen, which are very close to Holland.Wuppertal wrote:Though it now appears in limited quantities in Aldi Süd in southern Germany (funnily enough not Aldi Nord, in north Germany, nearer to Holland).
- Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:38 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: tablecloths
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1474
tablecloths
There is currently on ebay a CH postcard illustrating the Horsham dining hall, with tablecloths. Does anyone know when these were abolished? Certainly by 1955 (except for Christmas dinner and Christmas tea). I remember Mr A.L. Johnstone (himself a long-serving Hall Warden) once saying: "Yes, an...
- Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:23 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: First Day.....Last Day
- Replies: 89
- Views: 25611
Re: First Day.....Last Day
I don't quite understand what you think is sad, Kerren. Leaving, or the fact that you cried?
- Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:08 pm
- Forum: Coleridge Photos
- Topic: Coleridge House Photos
- Replies: 73
- Views: 50840
Re: Coleridge House Photos
CCF uniforms and especially boots were also the swab's responsibility and boots had to reflect better than a mirror. Brasses had to gleam and blanco on webbing had to be perfect; every Friday. Kit was not in the CCF. In Thornton B, where our housemaster was Major Page, monitors were strictly forbid...
- Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:58 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: The Houseblock Lofts
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6915
Re: The Houseblock Lofts
The winter of early 47 was worse, if only because there were constant power cuts (which I can just remember). As for 1963 at CH, it was actually quite fun. It had some very good sides -- no mid-morning PT for a start, and "activities" consisted mostly of sledging in Denne Park. I remember ...
- Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:59 pm
- Forum: Coleridge Photos
- Topic: Coleridge House Photos
- Replies: 73
- Views: 50840
Re: Coleridge House Photos
I was never a swab (it was voluntary).
When I was a monitor, I paid my swab 12/6 a term, and 18/- when I had a study. That represents about 10 pounds and 15 pounds in today's money.
Once I had my buttons, I paid it out of my Q-shott, the school's largesse to button grecians.
When I was a monitor, I paid my swab 12/6 a term, and 18/- when I had a study. That represents about 10 pounds and 15 pounds in today's money.
Once I had my buttons, I paid it out of my Q-shott, the school's largesse to button grecians.
- Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: The Houseblock Lofts
- Replies: 30
- Views: 6915
Re: The Houseblock Lofts
It occurs to me that they did have a legitimate use too. In Thornton B we stored the house sledges in the loft. I was there from 55 to 63. We used the sledges twice: in my first year (early 56), for about three days, and in my last year (early 63) for a very long time.
- Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:44 pm
- Forum: Coleridge Photos
- Topic: Coleridge House Photos
- Replies: 73
- Views: 50840
Re: Coleridge House Photos
Incidentally JR, you dated the original photo "1962 (?)". For the record, it must actually be 1961, because that was when my good friend the late Nick Cox, the tall blonde button grecian next to Tony Hewitt, left. There are various other pointers to a 1961 date, but I won't bore you with t...
- Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:35 pm
- Forum: Coleridge Photos
- Topic: Coleridge House Photos
- Replies: 73
- Views: 50840
Re: Coleridge House Photos
Re pancake races, there was a very different one held from about 1959 on Lamb Asphalt (CMES wisely called a staff meeting every Shrove Tuesday at 12.15). The trophy was a pair of antlers called the Colonel Pussfoot-Smythe Trophy. The History Grecians supplied an MC, and the trophy was awarded to whi...
- Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:27 pm
- Forum: Coleridge Photos
- Topic: Coleridge House Photos
- Replies: 73
- Views: 50840
Re: Coleridge House Photos
Graham Riches was in Thorn B from about 1952/3 to 1960. He then went to be House Captain of Maine B. He was one of the early VSO volunteers and then went to Emmanuel College Cambridge, where I also was. That was the last I saw of him.
- Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:19 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Constant Lambert
- Replies: 29
- Views: 6385
Re: Constant Lambert
Constant Lambert is quite famous, but I cannot recall ever having heard anything by him. Am I alone?
His son Kit managed The Who.
His son Kit managed The Who.
- Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:31 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Jokes, please.....
- Replies: 2390
- Views: 415208
Re: Jokes, please.....
Spot.
- Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:31 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Jokes, please.....
- Replies: 2390
- Views: 415208
Re: Jokes, please.....
What did the Irishman call his zebra?