School "House names"

[oxbob]

is that a NRW smile?

 

[punkypossum]

Lol, no, more of a universal grin...don't think there is an NRW smiley - I might have to create one!

 

[oxbob]

So you are a westphaliain?

 

[Abitrary]

I went to a quaker secondary school, so it was a bit weird and our house names were:

-threadneedle
-shedbody
-beeswax
-snagglepuss
-brentcross
-dripsod
-dingleberry
-schnappsmonk

 

[oxbob]

I went to a quaker secondary school, so it was a bit weird and our house names were:

-threadneedle
-shedbody
-beeswax
-snagglepuss
-brentcross
-dripsod
-dingleberry
-schnappsmonk

Well that has blown all your punchlines at ronnie scots!!

 

[punkypossum]

So you are a westphaliain?

Sort of, I'm an NRW-an, but not a proper westphalian...bit borderline...born in Essen, brough up in Langenberg (which has become Velbert-Langenberg)

 

[buggi]

Oberon, Portia, Falstaff and i can't remember the other one. they were all local road names and related to Shakespeare.

 

[buggi]

Oberon, Portia, Falstaff and i can't remember the other one. they were all local road names and related to Shakespeare.

o i remember now. the last one was Fabian.

 

[Abitrary]

o i remember now. the last one was Fabian.

Don't kid me you went to normal school, like us, buggi. I reckon you went to short skirt gum chewing penitentiary school.

 

[Gary D]

I've just had to read through 14 pages of this post just to satisfy my curiosity and see if anyone else went to my secondary school .....................They didn't!!

Newburgh (Blue)
Dudley (Yellow)
Beauchamp (Red)
Greville (Black)

Gary.

 

[buggi]

Don't kid me you went to normal school, like us, buggi. I reckon you went to short skirt gum chewing penitentiary school.

just because i went to a short skirt gum chewing penitentiary school, doesn't mean they didn't have house names

what's penitentiary mean?

 

[oxbob]

just because i went to a short skirt gum chewing penitentiary school, doesn't mean they didn't have house names

what's penitentiary mean?

Boot camp

 

[Aperitif]

Boot camp

High-heeled boot camp...

 

[Cubist]

High-heeled boot camp...

fmb camp?

 

[catwoman]

Warwick
Hood
Stoneleigh
Grove
Kenilworth
When I first started they were split by the sexes into girls and boys divisions but then we were mixed and became North/South or East/West depending on the aspect of the buildings themselves,