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- Thu May 02, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: SIR BARNES WALLIS
- Replies: 0
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SIR BARNES WALLIS
Old Blues interested in Sir Barnes Wallis and his achievements may like to know that there is a long and very informative article in the May issue of Aeroplane magazine concerning his Vickers Windsor bomber. This was the largest - and last - of the designs to use his geodesic construction method. It...
- Thu May 02, 2024 7:58 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
- Replies: 28
- Views: 133445
Re: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
There are some comments above on the poor quality of food at Horsham in the 1970s. All I can say is that the writers never had to endure my late mother's cooking - Housie was a relative feast in comparison.
David
David
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:23 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Favourite story from your time?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 787
Re: Favourite story from your time?
Leo, Sad to see you have not received any replies, so here goes...! My greatest single memory is of a very particular Chemistry lesson. The teacher was Mr Bevan (known as 'Pop') who was a dry old stick - he would have been just the man for the teacher in the film 'Goodbye Mr Chips.' He was always sl...
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 3:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE
- Replies: 2
- Views: 11476
TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE
While watching the film 'Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society' I noted that one of the key elements in the story was the book 'Tales from Shakespeare' by Charles and Mary Lamb.To my embarassment I had never heard of this book, even though I am an Old Blue and was in Lamb B! I now have a copy an...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 5:27 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: V-1 that landed at C.H. on 29 June 1944
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7004
Re: V-1 that landed at C.H. on 29 June 1944
Dear Conal,
I am reluctant to spoil your research, but I have already covered this event in considerable depth. If you ask the Museum they have a copy of my research paper.
Cheers,
David Miller
I am reluctant to spoil your research, but I have already covered this event in considerable depth. If you ask the Museum they have a copy of my research paper.
Cheers,
David Miller
- Fri May 05, 2023 10:09 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH and slavery
- Replies: 15
- Views: 59429
Re: CH and slavery
Sorry, but I don't read newspapers which publish anti-semitic cartoons.
David
David
- Sun Apr 23, 2023 4:47 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: SIR BARNES WALLIS
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5984
SIR BARNES WALLIS
A new book has just been published: "Dam Buster: Barnes Wallis: An Engineer's Life," by Richard Morris, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London; £24.99. I hope it does the great man justice and that it highlights both what CH did for him and what he did for CH. My favourite BNW story concerns m...
- Sun Feb 19, 2023 2:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH's new security system
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6007
Re: CH's new security system
"To ensure the students' safety the security team will get a notification if students leave their dorms out of hours…"
Good grief - such a system would never have stopped pinging in the 1950s!
David
Good grief - such a system would never have stopped pinging in the 1950s!
David
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 11:06 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH role in Coronation
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6704
Re: CH role in Coronation
Katharine, The one definite role of CH with a new monarch is that on the latter entering the City of London for the first time the Senior Grecian presents a loyal address. If I remember correctly this is done on the steps of St Paul's. On the late queen's entry the SG was flanked by the Head Girl, t...
- Tue Jul 26, 2022 7:42 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: New daily maths puzzle - give it a go and share?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12207
Re: New daily maths puzzle - give it a go and share?
Julian,
Had a look. I don't understand the rules, let alone find the answers, but maths was NEVER my strong point. Sorry!
I have a nephew who is a brilliant mathematician so I will ask him what he thinks.
David
Had a look. I don't understand the rules, let alone find the answers, but maths was NEVER my strong point. Sorry!
I have a nephew who is a brilliant mathematician so I will ask him what he thinks.
David
- Sat Jul 02, 2022 7:39 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Films at CH, 1956-1960
- Replies: 17
- Views: 50701
Re: Films at CH, 1956-1960
What a find! As a matter of interest, the Inspecting Officer of the CCF on 3 Jun - ACM Constantine - was an Old Blue! Must have been quite an occasion.
David
David
- Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:14 am
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: RADIO PROGRAMME
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5363
RADIO PROGRAMME
Interesting series on BBC Sounds: 'In Dark Corners.'
Certainly on 23 and 24 June 2022, but not sure how many more.
Certainly on 23 and 24 June 2022, but not sure how many more.
- Thu Jun 16, 2022 1:34 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Midwich Cuckoos - episode 3 - is this a Housey Girl or Boy?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5540
Re: Midwich Cuckoos - episode 3 - is this a Housey Girl or Boy?
I thought that the hairstyle looked a bit modern and the 'child' looked a bit old. The sculptor was born in 1939 so this is clearly a modern work. It is absolutely correct that there was a CH outstation in Ware and there is nothing wrong in having a statue to commemorate that fact, but a younger sit...
- Thu Jun 16, 2022 11:44 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Midwich Cuckoos - episode 3 - is this a Housey Girl or Boy?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5540
Re: Midwich Cuckoos - episode 3 - is this a Housey Girl or Boy?
Julian,
Hi - I am still here!
It is definitely NOT a CH girl. Girls wore a very different uniform from the boys until 1985; i.e., on the 'merger.'
David
Hi - I am still here!
It is definitely NOT a CH girl. Girls wore a very different uniform from the boys until 1985; i.e., on the 'merger.'
David
- Wed Jun 01, 2022 9:19 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Punishment system
- Replies: 16
- Views: 48827
Re: Punishment system
I can endorse that. In (about) 1952-3 someone two senior to me on the house roll, who had been in trouble on several occasions, simply disappeared, together with all his belongings. There was no public announcement. We were told quietly that he had been expelled and not to discuss him any further - ...