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House numbers
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:18 pm
by Vonny
Can you all remember your house numbers? I was 2:12 & then BaB 41
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 7:47 am
by Euterpe13
Of course - 2:24 - I even use it for lottery numbers ( how sad is that ?)
When you have it marked on everything from nighties to knickers for 7 seven years ( well 6 in my case, because 1 year in juniors ) - can you EVER forget ?
B.
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:07 am
by Great Plum
Maine B 39 and Maine A 23...
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:19 am
by sport!
Barnes B 39
Coleridge B 2
Lamb B 2
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:38 am
by englishangel
2:17
I have coathanger somewhere with this on, must have used it for needlework I suppose. (Textiles to the youngsters)
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:16 am
by eloisec
Col.A 44. A few years ago a group of us went back for Old Blues Day and met our old matron. Even though new pupils now had what were our numbers, she could still remember all our numbers. Scary!
I still have some stuff with Col.A 44 scrawled on them ... and that's after 11 years out of the place! I hasten to add, it's stuff shoved in the bottom of drawers and not used!
Re: House numbers
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:49 am
by Mid A 15
Vonny wrote:Can you all remember your house numbers? I was 2:12 & then BaB 41
My user name answers your question.
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:50 am
by Deb GP
34.
And I use mine for the lottery too.
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:53 am
by Richard Ruck
Barnes A 7 and Mid.B 39
Also sometimes used for the lottery!
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 11:46 am
by jhopgood
Barnes B 25, which I inherited from a Joe Curtis, whose brother Robin was also in Barnes B.
My brother was Barnes B 28 which he inherited from Mike Hilliard.
Can't remember anyone else's though, but I doubt that I knew them when I was at CH.
Given that we all had names, and only infrequently a relative in the same house, and that all my clothes had Cash's name tapes sewn on them, why did we have numbers?
Just to mark Housey clothes?
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 11:47 am
by englishangel
jhopgood wrote:Barnes B 25, which I inherited from a Joe Curtis, whose brother Robin was also in Barnes B.
My brother was Barnes B 28 which he inherited from Mike Hilliard.
Can't remember anyone else's though, but I doubt that I knew them when I was at CH.
Given that we all had names, and only infrequently a relative in the same house, and that all my clothes had Cash's name tapes sewn on them, why did we have numbers?
Just to mark Housey clothes?
Yes
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:19 pm
by jhopgood
englishangel wrote:jhopgood wrote:Barnes B 25, which I inherited from a Joe Curtis, whose brother Robin was also in Barnes B.
My brother was Barnes B 28 which he inherited from Mike Hilliard.
Can't remember anyone else's though, but I doubt that I knew them when I was at CH.
Given that we all had names, and only infrequently a relative in the same house, and that all my clothes had Cash's name tapes sewn on them, why did we have numbers?
Just to mark Housey clothes?
Yes
Ask a silly question....
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:13 pm
by BTaylor
Thornton B 45
Thonrton A 49
The numbers we re kept as similar as possible so that matron didn't have to sow on new tags, but could just write over the top...
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:24 pm
by Euterpe13
and remember that , at Hertford anyway, we didn't have any non-CH issue clothes, or name-tapes - so numbers were a lot quicker to china-ink onto a tape ( I've just rembered that I was 5:25 before 2.24 ...)
B.
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 1:38 pm
by ben ashton
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