Houses and abbreviations - help please
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Houses and abbreviations - help please
Houses and abbreviations:-
I'm trying to crunch a bit of data from OldBlues.com, and needing to understand some of the abbreviations.
Sure this is an easy answer for someone, but can any of you knowledgable bunch help out?
I've got the current Horsham houses, but am unsure of the 1's, 2's, 3's, 7's etc.
Also, is "House 2" the same as 2's or what?
Which are Hertford, which are old Horsham house names etc. etc?
Does anyone have a comprehensive list of all the house, both CH and Horsham, and can post them up here?
Cheers,
J
I'm trying to crunch a bit of data from OldBlues.com, and needing to understand some of the abbreviations.
Sure this is an easy answer for someone, but can any of you knowledgable bunch help out?
I've got the current Horsham houses, but am unsure of the 1's, 2's, 3's, 7's etc.
Also, is "House 2" the same as 2's or what?
Which are Hertford, which are old Horsham house names etc. etc?
Does anyone have a comprehensive list of all the house, both CH and Horsham, and can post them up here?
Cheers,
J
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Hertford was 8 houses around the square , ergo House 1 = 1's . Up untill 1965 , 1's &5's were junior Houses, then abolished and from then on all years in each house. This is why older Hertford OBs can have 2 houses, later onl 1 Numbers in House as Horsham, e.g. I was 5.25 then 2.24 .
The Headgirl and Headmistress's Prefects did not live in House, but rather in the Flat, which was over the Art School - a rare priviledge, as outside stardard Housemistress control, and with an atomosphere closer to Uni. digs.
Hope this helps a bit !
B.
The Headgirl and Headmistress's Prefects did not live in House, but rather in the Flat, which was over the Art School - a rare priviledge, as outside stardard Housemistress control, and with an atomosphere closer to Uni. digs.
Hope this helps a bit !
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But an interesting worry to have all the same if we were to have it. How did the Wards from London transfer to Horsham?jhopgood wrote:As far as I know all the houses at Horsham are the same with the exception of the Prep, which became Leigh Hunt.
You won't have to worry about the Wards from London I suppose, because I am not sure how they transferred to Horsham.
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When I went to the school, our houses were officially called Wards but that changed to Houses. They were always called 1s, 2s etc colloquially both when Houses and Wards. Wild One should be able to tell you the date they changed from Wards to Houses, becaused DR mentions it in her book. There was too much confusion with medical hospitals.
The Flat came in when we stopped having a resident Steward, When I was there it could sleep 6. You were still a member of your house and ate with the house. It varied as to who was in the Flat, in the Christmas terms it was the Senior VI whether they were School Prefects or not. I don't think we ever had more than 6, there were 6 of us in S VI. In the rest of the year it was Prefects, except there had to be a Mon left in each House even if both were Prefects.
The Flat came in when we stopped having a resident Steward, When I was there it could sleep 6. You were still a member of your house and ate with the house. It varied as to who was in the Flat, in the Christmas terms it was the Senior VI whether they were School Prefects or not. I don't think we ever had more than 6, there were 6 of us in S VI. In the rest of the year it was Prefects, except there had to be a Mon left in each House even if both were Prefects.
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So, would this be a comprehensive list of houses people could ever have been in??
Prep A
Prep B
LH A
LH B
Ma A
Ma B
Ba A
Ba B
La A
La B
Col A
Col B
Mid A
Mid B
Th A
Th B
Pe A
Pe B
Gr W
Gr E
1’s 2’s 3’s 4’s 5’s 6’s 7’s 8’s
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Prep A
Prep B
LH A
LH B
Ma A
Ma B
Ba A
Ba B
La A
La B
Col A
Col B
Mid A
Mid B
Th A
Th B
Pe A
Pe B
Gr W
Gr E
1’s 2’s 3’s 4’s 5’s 6’s 7’s 8’s
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J
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Thornton B & 9s Association I think, a hangover from Newgate, my brother was in Thorn B (or should that be Th B?) I think it may be time to drop the 9s in its name, there won't be any coming - not even our WW1 veteran was in London.englishangel wrote:That is correct for the 'Posh' school at Hertford.
Wasn't there a Ward 9 somewhere? I seem to remember a Ward 9 reunion in some publication or another, or is that a hangover from Newgate?
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certainly was. it was only there a few years but it was technically no less a real house than GrE or GrW.
i think my year was the first to have girls there, not sure. was it originally just a pet project of Leander Thornton's? it very much seemed so.
in it's second year it was, i think, exclusively used as an overflow for an exceptionally large yeargroup of hunt b deps. all of the originals went to hertford, all of the new ones ran the boarding house. rediculous or what.
i think my year was the first to have girls there, not sure. was it originally just a pet project of Leander Thornton's? it very much seemed so.
in it's second year it was, i think, exclusively used as an overflow for an exceptionally large yeargroup of hunt b deps. all of the originals went to hertford, all of the new ones ran the boarding house. rediculous or what.
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Hendrik, my year was the first I think (98-99)Hendrik wrote:certainly was. it was only there a few years but it was technically no less a real house than GrE or GrW.
i think my year was the first to have girls there, not sure. was it originally just a pet project of Leander Thornton's? it very much seemed so.
in it's second year it was, i think, exclusively used as an overflow for an exceptionally large yeargroup of hunt b deps. all of the originals went to hertford, all of the new ones ran the boarding house. rediculous or what.
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Is there an accepted abbreviation for Hertford house? I'm trying to standardise stuff, and having "Hertford" as a house as-is will probably confuse people - if someone has "Hertford" in their house list, it could imply "went to Hertford, and we don't know which house", or the actual "Hertford House"
Where was Hertford house? Was that when the Prep Block was used as a boarding house??
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Where was Hertford house? Was that when the Prep Block was used as a boarding house??
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