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CH uniform worn by non members of school?
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:06 pm
by Crippen
On the XTC album Skylarking from 1986, Andy Partridge is wearing a CH coat on the inner sleeve photo. Has anyone spotted another non CH person wearing one? (The fella on the inner sleeve of the first Madness album doesn't count - he was at CH and sent in his photo)
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:07 pm
by White Flag
Found this where they are said to be " Quaker Costumes "
http://www.xtcidearecords.co.uk/discs/discs_1.htm
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:38 pm
by englishangel
Whereabouts on the site?
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:51 pm
by White Flag
Click on " discograpy "
Click " Skylarking " about half way down
Roll down to trivia.
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:35 pm
by Great Plum
The only picture I have of a non school pupil wearing on is when Marcel (a German gapper) borrowed mine to see what it was like!
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:01 pm
by jtaylor
I'm sure there was a picture somewhere of Mark Duley (organist in my day) wearing a Housey Coat, possibly during our Chapel Choir tour or Venice and Florence...
Re: CH uniform worn by non members of school?
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:25 pm
by postwarblue
Corks (Rev WCM Cochrane) always wore a Broadie to hold his trousers up.
Re: CH uniform worn by non members of school?
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:26 pm
by michael scuffil
postwarblue wrote:Corks (Rev WCM Cochrane) always wore a Broadie to hold his trousers up.
Seeing that Broadies are not readily adjustable, that seems peculiarly eccentric. (But of course, he was. The last time I ever saw Corks was in the Rising Sun, his watering hole by St Paul's. He wandered in wearing a sort of Chinese hat with a pigtail attached. The barmaid was unperturbed: "The usual, canon?" she said.)
Re: CH uniform worn by non members of school?
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:52 am
by sejintenej
michael scuffil wrote:postwarblue wrote:Corks (Rev WCM Cochrane) always wore a Broadie to hold his trousers up.
Seeing that Broadies are not readily adjustable, that seems peculiarly eccentric. (But of course, he was. The last time I ever saw Corks was in the Rising Sun, his watering hole by St Paul's. He wandered in wearing a sort of Chinese hat with a pigtail attached. The barmaid was unperturbed: "The usual, canon?" she said.)
I can't remember his costumes but, yes, he was different!
As for the House of the Rising Sun, that was only one of his many haunts as he progressed through the day. I can't remember the names (but I could walk there) but he claimed and it seemed feasible that he could legally drink 24 hours a day. This was about 6am in Smithfields as we had breakfast and before we went to the brewery across the bridge in Borough. Then, and more so now, there was no way I could keep up with his consumption.
Re: CH uniform worn by non members of school?
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:41 am
by adlop
There was an urban myth in my time that Housey coats were on sale in various emporia on the Kings Road during the late 70's and early 80's. I'm guessing that the XTC photo might explain where the myth came from.