What were the "house names" in your school?

[Lady Bracknell]

At Merton House (junior wing of St. Trinians) we had:

Chaucer (Red) - my house
Shakespeare (Yellow)
Tennyson (Blue)

At my brief spell in a proper school (Chailey) I recall the houses being named after beacons or bits of Sussex downland. I was in Chanctonbury (yellow) and think we also had Firle & Ditchling, plus another whose name escapes me.

At boarding school (senior branch of St. Trinians) the houses were called after notable women so we had:
Bronte (my house)
Curie (all nice, all dim)
Hess (reserved for the Chosen Ones)

Of the last, I got into a deal of trouble when innocently asking why one of the houses was named after Rudolph Hess and, as a result, held Hitler Youth meetings. It turned out that the Hess in question was the pianist Dame Myra who was allegedly a chum of our truly horrible headmistress.

 

[Jello]

Brunel = pink (Art, Design, Metalwork etc.)
Faraday = yellow (Sciences)
Newton = red (Mathematics)
Tyler = GREEN (Humanities)
Shelley = DARK BLUE (English)
Mansion = LIGHT BLUE (Languages)

I was close in my defence I never paid that much attention

 

[Trotster]

Ditto

Red - Arundel
Yellow - Bramber
Green - Hastings
Blue - Lewes

Close - it was Red - Amberley

I was in Amberley

 

[Gwylan]

A
Of the last, I got into a deal of trouble when innocently asking why one of the houses was named after Rudolph Hess and, as a result, held Hitler Youth meetings. It turned out that the Hess in question was the pianist Dame Myra who was allegedly a chum of our truly horrible headmistress.

 

[Djmiles]

Blue, Red, Yellow, Green

Same here at St Willies

 

[Gwylan]

65 to 72 - 1.6 (Charlie Law), 2.3 (Sammy Turner!!), 3.5(My memory is fading), 4.29(It was a long time ago), 5.40(John Cunningham), L(vi)23(Jack Milford?), U(vi)23(Jack Milford?)

Many unhappy memories of Harry Alt & George Ely though

Sammy Turner was before my time; I struggle to remember all my form teachers though. Harry Allt was a bastard - as was Jack Milford - but I have fond memories of George Eley; he spent a lot of time with me when I was struggling with maths until I cracked it - maths then became my best subject.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Rydon Intermediate it was:

Downs - Green
Arun - Blue
Chancton - Red
Weald - Yellow

We had them at Steyning Grammar, can't remember what they were called, think one may have been Holland and another was named after a bloke who pushed his mother around in a wheelbarrow, but I can't remember his name...didn't use houses at all as far as I can recollect.

Steyning Grammar was:

Chancton (Blue - my house)
Cuthman (Green)
Cissa (Yellow)
Holland (Red).

 

[wehatepalace]

Hepburn, Parker, Wallace and Roberts

What school was that?

Thomas Bennett Crawley I was in Parker.

Wasn't it Wallis?

Two more TBCC'ers It was indeed Wallis, my house We were always shit at Sports Day though
Don't know what age you are but Mr Terry was my Head of House (I Think)

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Sammy Turner was before my time; I struggle to remember all my form teachers though. Harry Allt was a bastard - as was Jack Milford - but I have fond memories of George Eley; he spent a lot of time with me when I was struggling with maths until I cracked it - maths then became my best subject.

I'm probably being a a bit unfair on George Eley as I only had him, in the first 3 years, for PE ("Up against the wall bars" he'd scream, and then fire medicine balls at us with all his strength, and for swimming where he'd smack us on the head with his long pole for encouragement. Harry "The Screaming Skull" Allt was a vicious bastard who hit the kid behind me so hard, once, that he was knocked unconscious.

 

[Lush]

Just as an aside, with all this talk of Red Blue Green Yellow and being allocated houses, has anyone else read Rupert Thomson's Divided Kingdom? Really, really good thought-provoking read.

 

[Gwylan]

I'm probably being a a bit unfair on George Eley as I only had him, in the first 3 years, for PE ("Up against the wall bars" he'd scream, and then fire medicine balls at us with all his strength, and for swimming where he'd smack us on the head with his long pole for encouragement. Harry "The Screaming Skull" Allt was a vicious bastard who hit the kid behind me so hard, once, that he was knocked unconscious.

This has moved away from houses but if there's a most vicious teacher thread, I'd think you'd go a long way to beat The Mad Axeman Allt; an unrepetant sadist; he'd probably be in prison if he was teaching now.

Rightly feared by all Varndean boys of a certain generation.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Bowes Lyon and Molson named after local figures in Goerring's history

Apparently he has two, but very small.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Hanover
Stuart
Windsor
Tudor

 

[smudge]

I was in Cliffe & we had to wear green rugby shirts for all sports lessons. Other houses I remember were Firle, Kingston.........f*** me that's all I can remember, well it was over 30 years ago.

Lewes Priory; I f***ing hated it.

 

[Benny Seagull]

having come from st albans private school we named our houses after old pupils. they were:

renfrew (red)
hampson (yellow)
marsh (blue)
hawkins (black)

stephen hawkins is the only one anyone had ever heard of and that was mine! it was all a load of bollocks anyway and remember vividly skipping sports day to smoke drugs at home.

 

[acrossthepond]

Caburn
Chanctonbury
Firle
Ditchling

Dunno about the colours though.

 

[Barnet Seagull]

Livingstone - RED
Grenfell - YELLOW
Nightingale - GREEN
Fry - RED

I think.

 

[oneday]

Hi there all. Breaking my duck here.
We had Commonwealth countries: Australia (red) Canada (yellow) New Zealand (green) South Africa (blue).

 

[supaseagull]

At Coldean we had

Normans
Saxons
Vikings
Danes

At Falmer we had

Cocaine
Heroin
Ecstasy
Cannabis

I was in Cannabis and it was way easy going man!

 

[pasty]

Thomas Bennett Crawley I was in Parker.

Wasn't it Wallis?

Thomas Benneys ? Holy Trinity ROOOLED Crawley