The Dolphin
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- LE (Little Erasmus)
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The Dolphin
Oh-oh, here's another one already.
Across the way from the school and station is another piece of co-ordinated architecture (if you knew where I lived you'd sympathise with this fixation), namely the Dolphin pub. When I turned my eyes from the station on my last visit this inspired another reverie.
I've never quite got over the shock of discovering that girls from the grammar school in my home town thought nothing of popping into the local down the bottom of the road from their school of a lunchtime .
I wonder, did the internees at Hertford enjoy any sort of relationship with the Dolphin or was it too strictly monitored?
Across the way from the school and station is another piece of co-ordinated architecture (if you knew where I lived you'd sympathise with this fixation), namely the Dolphin pub. When I turned my eyes from the station on my last visit this inspired another reverie.
I've never quite got over the shock of discovering that girls from the grammar school in my home town thought nothing of popping into the local down the bottom of the road from their school of a lunchtime .
I wonder, did the internees at Hertford enjoy any sort of relationship with the Dolphin or was it too strictly monitored?
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Re: The Dolphin
How on earth did you manage that, Vonny? In my day (!!!) local tradesmen were in the habit of reporting back to the school if they saw anybody obviously belonging to the school doing anything remotely 'iffy'. So no visits to the pub, or even an apparently out-of-the-way off-licence, or nipping over the back gate. In fact on one occasion when I was out on a walk I was reported to my housemistress for putting some money in a chewing gum machine, reported that is by the slightly more senior girls that I was on the walk with. And would you believe the offence had nothing to do with chewing gum being considered a filthy habit - I shouldn't have had the penny that I put into the machine, because all money had to be handed into the housemistress!
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Re: The Dolphin
I think you mis-read my post! I can't even remember seeing a pub there!Fjgrogan wrote:How on earth did you manage that, Vonny?
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Re: The Dolphin
Sorry Vonnie - yes I did misread your posting. Also my memory is probably influenced by tales from my daughters' days at Hertford.
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Re: The Dolphin
Tell me more!!!Fjgrogan wrote:Also my memory is probably influenced by tales from my daughters' days at Hertford.
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Re: The Dolphin
Perhaps you should PM Maria!
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Re: The Dolphin
I don't remember a pub... In those days I wouldn't have known what to do with a pub!!!
In fact I never touched alcohol until the Grecians club at Horsham and even then it was only Babycham
I do recollect sneaking over the back gate once or twice but that was nothing to do with a pub!?!
Mx
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Re: The Dolphin
My first taste of alcohol (other than the odd sip at home) was in fact at the Boars Head just after the girls moved to Horsham Gin & tonic to be exact!
You dark horse - I didn't know you did things like escape over the back gate
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Re: The Dolphin
I must have been good at it then
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Re: The Dolphin
I bet you couldn't do it now, Maria!!
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Re: The Dolphin
too true... even if I weren't 8 months pregnant!
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- LE (Little Erasmus)
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Re: The Dolphin
The Dolphin today (taken with my back to the school, station is over the road to the right)
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Re: The Dolphin
Does the road on the right of the picture lead to The Meads?
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