| MESSAGE BOARD Thread 6 (10 replies so far) |
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ORIGINAL MESSAGE NAME: Orlando NelthorpeDATE: 1 March 2005 CONNECTION WITH QE: Pupil 1969-71 Put me out of my misery. I've been trying to think of the fourth house at QE. There was Leicester, Holyrood, Stapylton and...??? I was a Leicester boy. And which colours were for which (I remember Leicester was yellow!) |
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1st REPLY NAME: Vic (webmaster)DATE: 1 March 2005 CONNECTION WITH QE: Pupil 1954-59 Well, when I left in '59, there were FIVE houses - Stapylton (blue), Leicester (yellow), Broughton (red), Underne (green) and Harrison (brown). And there was no Holyrood! | ||||
2nd REPLY NAME: Martyn DayDATE: 27 June 2005 CONNECTION WITH QE: Pupil 1955-63 Underne? I don't remember Underne! (Of course, I was there in the 60's and I can't remember anything from the 60's). Don't bogart that joint, my friend! | ||||
3rd REPLY NAME: Vic (webmaster)DATE: 27 June 2005 CONNECTION WITH QE: Pupil 1954-59 It was named after Edward Underne, who was the Rector of Barnet when the School was founded in the 1570s. The Housemaster in our day was the Scripture master 'Poker' Pearce. He was called Poker because he glided about in a very erect fashion with a sanctimonious expression on his face. Surely you remember Poker, Martyn? | ||||
4th REPLY NAME: AnonDATE: 8 March 2006 CONNECTION WITH QE: Pupil 1990s There are 6 houses at QE - Broughton (red stripe on ties), Harrison (brown), Leicester (yellow), Pearce (purple), Stapylton (blue) and Underne (green). I was in Leicester, with the dubious distinction of having Mr Cornish - my all-time least favourite teacher - as a housemaster. No-one took house competitions as seriously as he did, and he seemed to have a thing against anyone in Broughton. He was said to rig the first year inter-house poetry-reading competition (which he organised), and once booked out the hall for five consecutive lunchtimes so that we could practice whatever it was we were supposed to be performing in the inter-house singing competition. Anyone who didn't turn up got a detention. We still lost. | ||||
5th REPLY NAME: Ian SadlerDATE: 8 May 2006 CONNECTION WITH QE: Pupil 1951-1958 Just a wee minor correction - the "brown" stripes correspond to Harrisons House - in the plural. I was there the day EHJ announced it to the school (1955?). It was named after two former masters, each with the name Harrison. But I can't remember anything about them! Bernie Pinnock, who taught maths (O-level year and 1st A-level year) then, was the first house master. He retired about 1986. In those days there was only one tie - dark blue with some light blue diagonal stripes. The coloured stripes were on the school cap (!) - when did that vanish (it can't still be worn surely)? Interesting to see that Poker (Pearce) - who was (my) housemaster of Underne now has a house named after him. He was also second master (deputy head) who mostly taught Scripture. But he also sometimes taught French, which was most alarming, as he refused to speak any English the whole period. | ||||
6th REPLY NAME: Paul BucklandDATE: 11 May 2006 CONNECTION WITH QE: Pupil 1962-1969 I too was in Underne House with 'Poker' Pearce as Housemaster, and for most of the time John Curry as Assistant Housemaster. Whilst 'Poker' could appear very formidable, especially to younger pupils, in fact i always found him very kind and supportive. Underne was the only house to have the annual 'house social' which I believe that 'Poker' always paid for, or at least subsidised. He retired, I understand, to the Lake District. Although he taught me RE I do not recall his ever talking french. | ||||
7th REPLY NAME: Stephen GilesDATE: 15 July 2006 CONNECTION WITH QE: former inmate I certainly remember Scripture lessons with Poker, with my case on the desk to hide my crib sheet during his tests! I don't know what they call Scripture now, does anyone? Surely Rastas Dilly was assistant housemaster up to 1964 when I left, having failed all my A levels, much to my father's disgust. Incidentally, my father, Jack Giles was head of Foulds School in Barnet from 1967 to 1989 when he retired. He died in 1998. | ||||
8th REPLY NAME: Paul BucklandDATE: 29 July 2006 CONNECTION WITH QE: former pupil Yes, indeed Rastas Dilly was Assistant Housemaster of Underne. He left to go to the Royal Masonic School, Bushey. John Curry, who subsequently became Assistant Housemaster of Underne, had been a pupil (I believe he was also head boy) at the Royal Masonic School and joined QE after University. In my years at QE the housemasters were: UNDERNE: John 'Poker' Pearce; LEICESTER: Gil Smith (assistant: Ken Carter); HARRISONS: Bernie Pinnock (assistant: Derek Fry); STAPYLTON: Jack Covington (assistant: Hugh Thomas); BROUGHTON: Tiger Timpson. Derek Fry and Hugh Thomas were both OEs. | ||||
9th REPLY NAME: Vic (webmaster)DATE: 30th July 2006 CONNECTION WITH QE: Pupil 1954-59 With reference to Reply 8 above, it was the same when I left in 1959, except that Frosty Winter, the history master, was housemaster of Leicester. This Gil Smith must have started at the school after I left. If anyone wants to reminisce about Frosty, they're welcome. I can't do it because merely watching a mental image of him 'teaching' sends me to sleep. | ||||
10th REPLY NAME: Ian SadlerDATE: 23rd August 2006 CONNECTION WITH QE: Pupil 1951-58 Referring to reply 9, Gil Smith was at the school when I arrived in 1951 - He was the senior french master and nornmally only took post O-level courses - except when I arrived and he told us this was the first time he had taken a first year class - he was very good. He was also mad on cricket and ran the 1st eleven. He was also an excellent pianist and used to accompany the then (pre Dilly) sole geography teacher Cocks (who fancied himself as a singer) at school concerts. Smith was the first assistant house master of Leicester when they introduced assistant house masters in about 1955. | ||||
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