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The crest on the bowl is more elaborate, squatter and ornate with curly stuff round the edges. There is one of the old CCF cap badges on ebay at the moment http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270038786397&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.co.uk%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3...

Scone Lover wrote:Btw, is it Scots or Scottish?

Just as long as it it not Scotch (unless you intend drinking it......)

cj wrote:Public schools (CH included) and universities on cigarette cards!

Even with an example!

(at least it looks likethe back of biig school...)

For drinking tea around the house I had a pint glass for a while (the sort with a handle). This was fine until someone dropped it, it didn't break at the time but the next time I put hot tea in it I was left holding just the handle (in front of my housemaster!)

The coffee (Sunday breakfast) tasted like no other.. well probably coffee mixed with tea.....

At Horsham in the 70s there were still some of the bowls arounf, even refered to as Kiff bowls, but used to keep other things such as sugar in! Kiff (and what was suppoesed to be coffee for Sunday breakfast) came in mugs/large cups, white at first replace by green plastic at some stage. Kiff was car...

Ruthie-Baby wrote:

soc wrote:Was there one that was something to do with a mathematics scholarship?

there was but I'm not sure there was a metal badge for it

The Navy ones wre for the "Royal Mathematical School" as originally this was set up to provide boys to be navigators.

If you have a problem with the Welsh language it may not be the best place. The current Mayor is one of the most rabid, urging Welsh speakers to breed more Welsh speaking babies - as heard on Radio 4 yesterday. I know I have posted elsewhere that I do not recognise the Wales that some speak of, and...

well I wouldn't mind hearing from someone who knows something about Leverhulme scholars... would love to finally get to know what it meant! Prbably something to do with Viscount Leverhulme who set up other educational things (the Leverhulme Trust provide research funds to Universities etc - http://...

Richard Ruck wrote:

soc wrote:horse hair mattresses???? No way!

I thought ours were made of horse hair too.........

They were, but the "horsehair" in a mattress is of vegtable rather than equine origin!

DavebytheSea wrote:Beating Retreat followed by Rome

Beware of the taxi strike - apparently it is clogging the town up a bit...

It's about the time of year again when I attempt to find people for a couple of events: The "Schools Veterans" at Bisley on Thurs 13th July (early evening) and some sort of match vs CH probably Sept/Oct time (tbc) I've alread emailed those who I have addresses for but could anyone that I h...

I seem to remember that I had to wait about 18 months for the badge to turn up

Laura M wrote:I just got the badge and not crossed rifles as well which I believe I was supposed to have.

Like this one:-



When you look at the detail those "rifles" are very strange!

I suspect that there has to be a certain amount of 'guesswork' by the forum software about "Guests", this will be based on seeing someone access the site who has not (yet) logged in some previous amountof time. Also if a member fails to logout, it may well log them out after a period of ti...