Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

cj wrote: It was short and sweet. (The curtsey was quite a nice touch. I think we might have bowed or at least acknowledged each other in some way, but I was invariably in band so didn't march in with house as a monitor often.)

i think we did, if we marched in on the front row at the ends we would stand at the door as the remainder of the house marched in then courtsey once done.

I noticed recently at the sixth form open day and on the day of my interview for CH that at the end of the parade the girls curtseyed, and the boys bowed to one another when going. Does anyone know if this is a practised tradition or if it only done on occasion?

i think its a daily tradition as part of marching, just i couldnt remember it that well

I certainly remember that the boys used to bow to each other (if they could be bothered!) - don't recall the girls curtseying, but didn't pay that much attention to spot it!

J

Couldn't download the programme as I am identified as being outside the UK.

However, as I am sure JR can confirm, there was no bowing to one another as we filed in to Dining Hall. We just formed into two columns and went straight in.
Whether monitors bowed after the troops had gone in I have no idea, as I was in the band and it would only have happened at lunch time.
Although on Tuesday and Fridays, when the bugle band played us in, I'm pretty certain we didn't bow or nod to one another.

Other houses might have done it, but....

As I said before John - Certainly no bowing in our day !

I know 100% that I didn't curtsey but it seems others from my era did - whoops.

It seems in this case, to be a tradition that often goes unnoticed, but is performed by the house monitors(right???) after everyone else has gone in. This would eliminate the confusion for those who never got to witness this.
Only those standing outside in Quad and facing the dining hall would be able to observe.
However this still needs confermation as to whether it was performed at the end of every parade

Pan

Yes it would have been the house monitors. They stand outside by the dining hall doors whilst the rest of the house file in. I remember doing this myself but not the curtseying bit!

I wasnt a house montior, it was the two girls who 1 called marching and the 1 who was on the other end of the front row

The house monitors (in my day) used to march either side of the rest of the house and were supposed to a) to ensure the rest of the house were in step with them and b) make sure there was no larking about.

yes thats where i often stood but i wasnt a monitor (i was first year of deps being top of the avenue house as Grecians had gone to the grecians houses) we must have taken it in turns to fill that postion