School "House names"

[mickle]

powys harlech montgomery i think and another, brecon?. i cant be sure, it was a very long time ago.

 

[groucho]

Primary School:-
Abbott
Friar
St Leonards

Grammar School:-
Widley
Purbrook
Wallington
Southwick

There were also 3 'houses' for girls in Primary but...... the fog of time ........is....something?

 

[Headgardener]

Aylesford
Evesham
Jesmond
Walsingham

(Anyone able to see the connection

QE the 1 comes to mind

 

[bryce]

Drake - Red
Churchill - Blue
Nelson - Yellow
Raleigh - Green

I was Drake house captain (mostly because my parents got on well with the housemaster) so I had a special badge on my blazer lapel to go with the Librarian badge on the other lapel. Happy days.

 

[Saddle bum]

Mandall, Roberts, Semmons and Wilson. The frist four teachers whne the schoo was founded.

Badges below.

 

[Cubist]

Were you at MCS or Liverpool College? The Chavasse family seemed to collect medals - Noel was one of only 3 to get VC and bar...pretty heroic guy.

MCS
I was in Chavasse, named after Noel. I seem to remember that at least three of the houses were named after Old Boys who died or were decorated in the Great War. I'll have to do a web search, as I'm pretty sure one of the historians, probably Ian Harrop, wrote an article on how the houses came to be named.

 

[Cubist]

Whoops
Looks like they five of them were anyway
This year, 2007, marks the 90th anniversary of the deaths of

four remarkable old boys in the GreatWar: Donovan​

Leicester (Senior Prefect 1913-14, died 8

th May 1917),

Noel Godfrey ChavasseVC and Bar (died 4th August 1917), John
Callender (Senior Prefect 1914-15, died 21​

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st August 1917) and

John Fox RussellVC (died 6​

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th November 1917).

Of those who would later have a House named after them in
1924, three died in 1917.Two other remarkable former Senior
Prefects (Heads of School), Charles Maltby (died 27​

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th August

1916) who fell at the Battle of the Somme, and Maurice Blagden
(died 21​

​

st September 1918) who fell at Epehy (France), were also

chosen as names of the new Houses of 1924.
FrankWilkinson, Captain of the 1​

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st X1 and House Prefect, was

the sixth senior boy whose name was remembered in the newlyfounded
house system. FrankWilkinson was seriously wounded
in the final push in 1918 and died in 1919 en route to a ‘colony’​

for disabled officers in East Africa.



The final house, Walker-Dunn was named after two old boys who lost their lives in WW2 :

As the school continued to grow in the immediate post-Second
World War period, another day House was proposed by Bob
Stanier (former Master).The creation of a fourth House (Walker
– senior boys) and Dunn (junior boys) was to accommodate the
growth of the school and the expansion of day-boy numbers in
the immediate post-war period. Walker-Dunn was created in
memory of Geoffrey Walker (died in North Africa, 4​

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th March

1943) and Bruce Dunn (died at Imphal 15​

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th May 1945). Even

the newest House was created in memory of remarkable OWs
over 60 years ago.​

The article was written by Nigel Bates, a favourite Geography teacher.​

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[yoyo]

Singleton
Grattan
Erasmus

I was in Singleton.

 

[Fab Foodie]

how many other 'full boarders' are there on CC ?

I was "full-boarder" whilst a Choirister at Exeter Cathedral, it was a full-time occupation so boarding was the only way. Most enjoyable time!

 

[Graham O]

Primary School:-
Abbott
Friar
St Leonards

Grammar School:-
Widley
Purbrook
Wallington
Southwick

There were also 3 'houses' for girls in Primary but...... the fog of time ........is....something?

Don't know where you were in primary school, but the Grammar School was the Northern Grammar in Portsmouth! Widley was the best, of course.
(All the names refer to forts, or Palmerston's Follies, protecting Portsmouth from French invasion.)

 

[Cubist]

I was "full-boarder" whilst a Choirister at Exeter Cathedral, it was a full-time occupation so boarding was the only way. Most enjoyable time!

I was a Chorister at Magdalen College, so got a scholarship to the school. I was a full boarder too.

 

[punkypossum]

Hmmm. Fair enough. My schools and college certainly didn't have houses. Stumbling in I'm met with a thread with a lot of bizarre names!

Agree!!! It's all rather weird and very Harry Potter!!!!

Although in kindergarden we had elephants, cats and piglets - I was a cat...

 

[vernon]

Cheshire, Hunt, Lovell and Britten

 

[snakehips]

.............. ahh Heathfield was the other one that I couldn't remember. You can all get a decent night's sleep now you know that.

Snakehips Bikes

 

[mr Mag00]

rivers in junior school
avon
thames
severn
frome


then boring j and K in sceondary