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I remember the yellow dresses as my sister Paula wore them when she was at Hertford from 1954-61 – I even have a photo of her in one somewhere. Your tale of stitching yellow fabric for scrubs reminds me of her darning skills that she learn at CH. She used to say that they had to darn their knickers ...

We had the box beside the bed .....

....which we used to call a "settle". Strange how I remember that but I don't remember using the word 'Toyce'. The more usual term for a toyce is a 'carrel unit' but I don't think it was ever called that at CH.

AMP wrote
"March was an unusual time to leave?"

Yes, it was. I think only three of us left then. I'd come up the fast way through LE and GE so took my A levels a year early. It was all planned for me to stay on and do S levels then Oxbridge entrance and follow my sister who after being at CH in ...

John wrote There are Barnes B contemporaries on this forum who may have other memories.

I remember Neil Simms quite well. I put a house photo of Barnes B taken in 1961 on the site in 2005 see https://www.chforum.info/php/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=687 and he is clearly in it. He seemed quite quiet and ...

Mike, I guess when you are only 11 or 12 any age over 18 seems like old age - sadly that it no longer the case. I consider 40 to be very young now!
However I think she was probably in her 30s not 40s, at least when I first arrived in 1959. Maybe she had some private income so that she was able to ...

Michael wrote There was, after all, no such thing as a young matron
and he also wrote -- certainly it didn't run to a car

Evidence to contradict your first statement Michael can be found in the photo of Barnes B in 1961 I posted a long time ago (first post on Barnes House photos) as Irene Farr ...

by ZeroDeConduite » Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:38 pm

There was also an Assistant Music Master/Organist who married in the late 1950s - name escapes me...

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Today's CHOBA News carries this obit info which fits the circumstances (John) David Swale Staff 53-61 who went on to be an ...

Reflecting on (returning to?) the topic “Old Blue 2018” the "school like no other" claim has already been discussed. I would take issue with almost the very first claim in the brochure, “Christ’s Hospital is the most diverse boarding school in the UK.” I can think of at least one school (e.g. https ...

John asked
Just for my education, is there a difference between expelled and excluded?

I used to be the Chair of Governors of a comprehensive school and had to deal with this quite a lot. Exclusion can either be fixed-term exclusion in which case it is also known as suspension or it can be ...

I'm confused by this

I’m so proud that 98 per cent of our leavers, many of whom have faced high levels of adversity, leave us as confident young men and women, having secured places at top universities and who often later return to help future generations of pupils either financially or through ...

Ah well - I remembered the number OK!!

Keibat wrote Hillard, I think, not Hilliard: Michael John, from Thames Ditton (I once visited their lovely riverside bungalow!) Sadly, my memory lets me down
It was Hillard. Amazing thing about memory is how sometimes you can remember the most trivial of facts and forget the simple things. I bet ...

Michae Scuffil wrote,
Things resembling bolios (hard cylindrical pillows) are common in Germany. They're called 'Nackenstützen' (neck-rests or 'neck-supports') and many people swear by them.
Maybe that is where the word "knackered' comes from as they were excellent at preventing a sound night's ...

J.R. wrote

Was bolio the sort of pillow we had to put up with ?? Memory fading with age, I'm afraid.

Pillow is one word for it - rock is a better description.

John Hopgood wrote

As a Ba B contemporary of Keibat, I can only remember Flab and Kiff. His memory is obviously better than mine, so maybe he remembers where my nickname came from, which I inherited from Michael Hilliard, I think. My brother inherited from me.

I'm a BaB contemporary of Keibat ...