YOB meet up on St Matt's Day

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Deb GP wrote: Plus you don't have to sit looking at ominious prison artefacts all the way through the service as I recall doing so in St Sep's.
Lots of tattered old regimental flags, as I recall.
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scouts, CCF, CH air force etc.... no ending of number of flags CH could fly being affiliated to so many things!
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I used to like the Oars at the old Swimming Pool.

Does anyone know why the house standards look like a blue ensign?
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Deb GP wrote:Wasn't St Sep's used because it's the nearest active church to the site of the school? Obvs Christ Church w.o. Newgate is closer but it's a bit bombed out... and haunted by all accounts (or so our guide for our "Ghosts of the Old City" Walk told us - a splendid evening's entertainment). I think Christ Church is (was) the Church that CH used when in London and is in one of those paintings which was turned into a CH greetings card that also depicts the "Wren" Portico (of back of Big School fame).

St Andrew's is bigger than St Sep's and is more active, I think. Plus you don't have to sit looking at ominious prison artefacts all the way through the service as I recall doing so in St Sep's.
That all sounds about right - those flags at St Sep's were pretty nasty if I recall...

Having now been to St Andrew's I can see why they changed church!
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Mid A 15 wrote: Whereabouts in Kent?
Born in the Kent & Canterbury Hospital (in Canterbury, funnily enough), brought up in Chartham Hatch, a hamlet a couple of miles west of the city, schooled in Sturry and Deal prior to CH. We stay with friends in Wingham every summer. I love going back and Canterbury is so much nicer now than it was in the 70s and early 80s. And of course it has the finest cathedral in the country.
Wingham Bird Park (I think they call it Wild Life Park now) is a child friendly place for half a day or so. I know Chartham Hatch as my Great, Great, Grandfather lived there according to the 1901 census (? spelling) Salmestone LaneI live about 20 miles or so up the A2 / M2.
I meant Shalmesford Street. The old memory's going along with the eyesight :wink:
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Still confused!
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Mid A 15 wrote:
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cj wrote: Born in the Kent & Canterbury Hospital (in Canterbury, funnily enough), brought up in Chartham Hatch, a hamlet a couple of miles west of the city, schooled in Sturry and Deal prior to CH. We stay with friends in Wingham every summer. I love going back and Canterbury is so much nicer now than it was in the 70s and early 80s. And of course it has the finest cathedral in the country.
Wingham Bird Park (I think they call it Wild Life Park now) is a child friendly place for half a day or so. I know Chartham Hatch as my Great, Great, Grandfather lived there according to the 1901 census (? spelling) Salmestone LaneI live about 20 miles or so up the A2 / M2.
I meant Shalmesford Street. The old memory's going along with the eyesight :wink:
I definitely know Shalmesford Street!
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well the 22nd is my birthday and ill be getting drunk here in birmingham. its way cheaper here and i dont have endure wetherspoons and people i didnt like at school! score!
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Deb GP wrote:I used to like the Oars at the old Swimming Pool.
No 'oars' at the swimming pool at Horsham in the sixties.

Don't think Hertford moved down til the seventies !

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Jude wrote:now this thread is giving me a headache! TOO MANY CHURCHES!
..... and not a synagogue in sight ?

(Sorry, Jude !)
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How is your daughter doing JR?
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To bring this thread back on topic, the pub which the YOB's are meeting at is in Exit 9 (!!) of Bank tube station or if you are approaching from ground level it's in the Poultry (sniggers) Building...
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Deb GP wrote:I used to like the Oars at the old Swimming Pool.
No 'oars' at the swimming pool at Horsham in the sixties.
Fortunately I don't understand that - but the oars were in the sort of entrance lobby to the gym and swimming pool in my day. They recalled some Thames glory from the CH Boat club when the school was in Newgate Street.
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Your right David, I kept looking at them thnking "they look damned heavy"
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.... and I think there was a CH Rowing club cap there too - in a glass case
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