What price a Leaver's Bible?

[gma]

Sadly, as an expellee, I didn't get a Leaver's Bible so I have to make do with the one I used at CH - which had a large hole cut in every page from Leviticus onwards to Jmaes and whose so savaged pages were all stuck together so that I could hide contraband in it for chapel on Sundays. Contraband being mostly sherbert lemons. Sorry to any offended readers. But really, sherbert lemons.............................

[J.R.]

I'm more intrigued by the fact that as 'Sam' has no knowledge of the school, how did he/she get hold of the postcard in the first place ?

[kerrensimmonds]

John... there are zillions of these cards in circulation among people why buy and sell postcards. A fraction of them end up on eBay. I suspect 'Sam' is a postcard dealer and has discovered that there are people who buy 'Christ Hospital' memorabilia on eBay....
Kerren

[J.R.]

Thanks Kerren !

[Katharine]

My OH was recently sent a catalogue of the 'Welsh Costume Postcard Society', I kid you not. Some of the postcards showed Bessie in her costume at Tan y Bwlch station so there was a connection to the Ffestiniog Railway. Obviously there are all sorts of post card collectors, including, presumably, those who collect CH post cards.

[Wuppertal]

For some mysterious reason, a closer look at this ebay item is blocked to German internet addresses. Can anyone tell me why? (The usual reason is that there's a swastika around somewhere, public displays of swastikas being forbidden in Germany.)

I've just tried looking at it - and it's blocked in Italy too.

[gma]

For some mysterious reason, a closer look at this ebay item is blocked to German internet addresses. Can anyone tell me why? (The usual reason is that there's a swastika around somewhere, public displays of swastikas being forbidden in Germany.)

I've just tried looking at it - and it's blocked in Italy too.

How does that song, "is it just a little bit of history repeating"?

[kerrensimmonds]

The world has gone absolutely bezonkers. This seller has been trying to sell these items starting at 99p for several weeks. Look how they stand now :-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHRISTS-HOSPITAL- ... dZViewItem

C'mon Mrs. C. Your fortune lies in eBay!

[Wuppertal]

The world has gone absolutely bezonkers. This seller has been trying to sell these items starting at 99p for several weeks. Look how they stand now :-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHRISTS-HOSPITAL- ... dZViewItem

C'mon Mrs. C. Your fortune lies in eBay!

Anyone ever manage to sneak their housey coat or breaches out on their last day without having to give them back? Seems that you could indeed make a bit of a fortune! (If anyone ever buys them, which looks difficult according to that link)

For some mysterious reason, a closer look at this ebay item is blocked to German internet addresses. Can anyone tell me why? (The usual reason is that there's a swastika around somewhere, public displays of swastikas being forbidden in Germany.)

I've just tried looking at it - and it's blocked in Italy too.

How does that song, "is it just a little bit of history repeating"?

Is anyone else here in another country that lost World War Two finding this internet block?!

Funniness aside, I'm surprised that apparently innocent webpages are blocked in what are considered fair and democratic countries. I'm aware of certain other countries notable for their lack of human rights blocking websites, but didn't know it happened in our neck of the woods in western Europe.

[Ajarn Philip]

No problem accessing it from Thailand. There was a period of a few months about a year or more ago when access to youtube was blocked, because of an insulting video of the King, but youtube wasn't really something I missed.

[michael scuffil]

eBay has a policy of not displaying things it would be illegal to sell elsewhere. Sometimes these are pretty universal (narcotics, human organs), sometimes they are country specific, in Germany for example Nazi memorabilia. eBay seems to have an automatic program to recognize these, but concedes that it's a bit crude, and promises to come up with something more discriminating. Clearly the program has (I imagine wrongly) identified something here as suspect. But they still haven't answered my query.