CH Trivia

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:22 pm

oh! and don't forget the little boys! - they were at Hertford too you know! They only arrived finally when the school opened in Horsham in 1902 - but that was before my time.

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:24 pm

DavebytheSea wrote:oh! and don't forget the little boys! - they were at Hertford too you know! They only arrived finally when the school opened in Horsham in 1902 - but that was before my time.

Didn't Coleridge spend some time at Hertford?

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:32 pm

He wasn't a contemporary of mine, I'm afraid, so I don't know. But I think he must have done as all the little Prep squits went there for a time before 1902. Somewhere I have seen the date when they took the little things away from the rats in Newgate Street.

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:44 pm

DavebytheSea wrote:oh! and don't forget the little boys! - they were at Hertford too you know! They only arrived finally when the school opened in Horsham in 1902 - but that was before my time.

Yeah, Right !

AKAP · Post by **AKAP** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:47 pm

If you put a knife in the edge of the table, bent it back a long way, placed
a pea on the knife and flicked.
It was possible to hit the roof (only make sure Pongo Littlefield didn't see because he was another one who was handy with the cane, as I know from personal experience).

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 5:54 pm

Stool ball bats are solid wood (as my head can testify) like cricket bats, and about the same size as a child's tennis raquet, with a short handle.

the ball is similar to a rounders ball i.e. white leather about the size of a tennis ball. And you know about it if you get one of those in the eye.

I get my best black eye ever from one of those.

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 6:24 pm

.... but because of its large surface area, when applied to the stern it rarely had much impact (in a manner of speaking) - hence the chaos in Daddy Dore's singing lessons.

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:17 pm

I was always told it was the 2nd largest unsupported roof...

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 7:42 pm

Great Plum wrote:I was always told it was the 2nd largest unsupported roof...

What? the stoolball bat? after Dining Hall, I suppose.

shoz · Post by **shoz** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:12 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:
shoz wrote: I suppose I am telling you all something you already know, ........
Indeed you are!

If you know about the roof, what else do you know that we might find interesting?

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:06 am

2nd largest cloistered quad in England after St Hughes, Charterhouse in Henfield...

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:41 am

shoz wrote:
Richard Ruck wrote:
shoz wrote: I suppose I am telling you all something you already know, ........
Indeed you are!
If you know about the roof, what else do you know that we might find interesting?

Depends who "we" are......

shoz · Post by **shoz** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 12:36 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:
shoz wrote:
Richard Ruck wrote: Indeed you are!
If you know about the roof, what else do you know that we might find interesting?
Depends who "we" are......

Erm... not sure I understand but I was using the general 'we', all members of the forum.

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 2:52 pm

On a different note ( and picking up on something Davebythesea said in another post ...) - does anyone know where I can get hold of either the Votum or the school hymn music ? I would love to install either as a ring-tone on my umbilical cord - sorry, cell-phone !
B.

eloisec · Post by **eloisec** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 10:09 am

One of the choir CDs has these tunes on, but nothing online yet (at least I don't think so).

Makes a change from crazy frog ringtones ...