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by Chris T
Fri Sep 26, 2014 8:18 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Reading to the dormitory
Replies: 74
Views: 20945

Re: Reading to the dormitory

Can I suggest that the Moderator combines a previous thread ( "Reading to the House" started on 12 Oct 2013) with this one? Chris T
by Chris T
Wed Jun 18, 2014 11:23 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Leaving Bibles
Replies: 10
Views: 3738

Re: Leaving Bibles

In my days (1950s) at Horsham every leaver was given a Bible. All monitors were also given the choice of a Concordance or a Prayer Book, whether they were Anglican or not. Once, in an interview on a BBC radio programme Baroness Deech, OB, was asked about her time at CH and leaving it, etc. She menti...
by Chris T
Wed May 21, 2014 11:49 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Senior Grecians
Replies: 21
Views: 13061

Re: Senior Grecians

Here are some partial additions. Others can possibly complete them.

Morrison, 48/9 MidA
Dennis RM Silk, MaA (Headmaster of Radley School)
Peter R Birkett, LaA
Mackenzie, ThB (Captain of Swimming at CH)
Alan S Everest, 55/6 MidB
Peter Attenborough, 56/7 MaB (Headmaster of Charterhouse School)
by Chris T
Wed May 21, 2014 4:46 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Grecian's Play
Replies: 50
Views: 15203

Re: Grecian's Play

Excuse the (temporary?) diversion, but what's a Wessex Ranger?
by Chris T
Wed May 21, 2014 4:34 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Pranks in Chapel
Replies: 21
Views: 9568

Re: Pranks in Chapel

Thanks very much, dsmg. I'm greatly relieved.

I trust that all readers will please forgive my error. Sorry. Chris T
by Chris T
Tue May 20, 2014 5:33 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Pranks in Chapel
Replies: 21
Views: 9568

Re: Pranks in Chapel

This is a non-Chapel prank, but it merits mention, even if only to condemn it for its crassness. By chance I came across a recording on You Tube (at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-6CAfxwHlQ ) called “christ hospital school prank” [sic], which recounts a fictitious phone call to CH allegedly from ...
by Chris T
Wed May 14, 2014 3:34 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Bullying & Abuse - Take II
Replies: 132
Views: 55982

Re: Bullying & Abuse - Take II

To sum up the two valuable comments from Rockfreak and Sejintenej, BOTH ARE CORRECT AND NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE. Of course poverty causes bad (social) things, but the culture of a community/nation is at least equally (and frequently more) important. Two examples make my case: (1) In Britain during th...
by Chris T
Thu May 08, 2014 5:30 am
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Bullying & Abuse - Take II
Replies: 132
Views: 55982

Re: Bullying & Abuse - Take II

All this is sobering reading in contrast to the (often well deserved) nostalgic praise for CH read in this forum. Bullying certainly existed in the 50s. (Even then there was some appreciation of the potential dangers and the care available. A boy aged about 14 used to go to a weekly appointment in H...
by Chris T
Sun Mar 16, 2014 9:28 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Junior Housemasters
Replies: 15
Views: 3295

Re: Junior Housemasters

Old Blue JE Bullard was a bachelor and an interesting fellow. He left CH, obtained a first in Maths at Cambridge and hence a BA, which he never converted to a MA. (He may have also been a Wrangler.) After entering the Civil Service he rose to great heights. It was alleged that had he stayed on till ...
by Chris T
Thu Mar 13, 2014 2:15 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Block Mottoes
Replies: 5
Views: 2235

Re: Block Mottoes

michael scuffil wrote:These were discussed in the course of this thread: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1723&hilit=Latin+motto
Thanks very much. Chris
by Chris T
Wed Mar 12, 2014 3:36 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Block Mottoes
Replies: 5
Views: 2235

Block Mottoes

Each Horsham block has a central door facing The Avenue and above this door is a latin motto. Is there a list of them all somewhere, perhaps in one of the books about Housey? But does anyone remember the wording of some of them? Were they all from one source, perhaps the words of a single author? It...
by Chris T
Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:03 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Facts of life
Replies: 11
Views: 3185

Re: Facts of life

I learned the facts of life at about the age of 9 or 10, from a fellow schoolboy at my pre-CH primary school. Sometime after this I told my widowed mother. She replied that she had already explained it all to me. But her explanations had been so contorted that I had not understood anything. Since I ...
by Chris T
Sun Feb 02, 2014 6:28 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: The Manual School
Replies: 22
Views: 7193

Re: The Manual School

Some further points about the old Manual School – its official title was the “Manual Training School” and one activity taught there, not mentioned so far, was the use of a foundry. For example a round recessed disc was cast and then made smooth and shiny by being turned on a lathe. A few radial semi...
by Chris T
Sat Jan 18, 2014 7:51 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Films at CH Horsham
Replies: 34
Views: 10233

Re: Films at CH Horsham

One peculiarity about these films was that the projector was behind the screen (somewhere under the Big School organ console), so that the film had to be rewound back-to-front on the reels before they could be projected. Very occasionally this was omitted and after a start the titles appeared back t...
by Chris T
Fri Jan 17, 2014 1:49 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Death of Pat Daunt (Horsham Staff 53-65)
Replies: 5
Views: 4170

Re: Death of Pat Daunt (Horsham Staff 53-65)

The following informal recollections were written by a son of Pat Daunt and give further insights into this remarkable man. He was Head of English at Thomas Bennett School in Crawley and my own teaching career began observing his department at work in September 1982. Dad writes of M. Bowra* as follo...