What were the "house names" in your school?

[cardboard]

No, "my friend", he's not wrong. You are obviously talking about a different school (or a different era) with different colours. And are you robbing Hastings of a castle?

Glebe Middle when i was there in 1983 - 1987 was

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

Im looking at one of my old work books now with the houses and colours on. I was so intrigued, i went to the loft and found it

 

[Fungus]

Glebe Middle when i was there in 1983 - 1987 was

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

Im looking at one of my old work books now with the houses and colours on. I was so intrigued, i went to the loft and found it

Which still doesn't make him (or me) wrong - it's a different era. I was there from 1965, and I guess Everest would have been 5 years later. As he said, Bramber were Yellow, and Hastings were Green.

 

[Skaville]

Cliff was Blue when I was there.

Spot on.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

You must have been at Westlain Grammar , Freddie.
I was there from '63 -'68.

Indeed. And, just as Bluenose earlier, I can now claim to feel younger.

You & I would have treaded the same boards for a year but it's quite possible that you may know a couple of my older brothers, one of whom is a poster on these very pages.

 

[fosters headband]

Downs
Rugby
Grantham
Edburton
Ditchling
(the four roads surrounding the school)

Dorothy Stringer
Arundel
Bramber
Lewes
Pevensey
(named after four of the six rapes of Sussex)

When I was at Stringer they were

Red=Surrenden
Blue=Hollingbury
Yellow=Beaconsfield
Green=Ditchling

I wonder what year they changed?

 

[The Large One]

When I was at Stringer they were

Red=Surrenden
Blue=Hollingbury
Yellow=Beaconsfield
Green=Ditchling

I wonder what year they changed?

Didn't know that. All I do know is the headmaster did away with them in 1983.

 

[Trufflehound]

Emerson
Lake
Palmer

 

[Paddy B]

Forest School, Horsham
Brunel = pink, my house
Faraday = yellow
Newton = red
Tyler = light blue
Shelley = green
Mansion = ?

not sure if they still have them these days

I was in Mansion and I think they were blue of some description

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Junior School were all UK patron Saints. I was in St Patricks.

Senior school (Brighton College) I was in Chichester. It was a boys-only boarding house then - now I think it is a mixed day house.

My memory's hazy but confirmed what I thought about BC junior - I was in St Andrews.

Before that I was at Queens Park which I think was just colours.

When I went on to Thomas Peacocke I couldn't be bothered at all with the whole houses thing. There was definately one called 'Rother' but I can't remember any of the others.

 

[Stinkers Bridge]

Crowborough Beacon:

Ashdown - Yellow
Innes - Red
Sackville - Green
Neville - Blue

I was in Neville. Hurraah

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Emerson
Lake
Palmer

Completely off topic, but Keith Emersons mum was my dinner lady at West Park Middle school. Nice lady, met him a few times then too.

 

[East Staffs Gull]

Glebe Middle when i was there in 1983 - 1987 was

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

Im looking at one of my old work books now with the houses and colours on. I was so intrigued, i went to the loft and found it

Same as the houses at Goldstone Junior School on Ellen Street.

 

[Gully]

Steyning Grammar was:

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

I wondered how long it would take to find someone else who admitted to having gone to Steyning, I only know of one other poster on here who was around at the same time I was incarcerated. Thanks for stirring up the old grey matter, it must have been St Cuthman who pushed his mother around in a wheelbarrow, not sure who Cissa was but guess that Cissbury may have been named after him/her/it....seems a bit odd that they all began with the letter C, except for Holland, guess they ran out of ideas for words beginning with the same letter by the time they got to the fourth house.

 

[Spiros]

At Kings Manor in Shoreham in the 70s and 80s the houses were named after French regions - can't remember them all but think it was something like

Brittany
Burgundy
Normandy
Provence

There might've been more

 

[Gwylan]

Emerson
Lake
Palmer

Rip
Pig
Panic


...surely?

 

[Pavilionaire]

I wondered how long it would take to find someone else who admitted to having gone to Steyning, I only know of one other poster on here who was around at the same time I was incarcerated. Thanks for stirring up the old grey matter, it must have been St Cuthman who pushed his mother around in a wheelbarrow, not sure who Cissa was but guess that Cissbury may have been named after him/her/it....seems a bit odd that they all began with the letter C, except for Holland, guess they ran out of ideas for words beginning with the same letter by the time they got to the fourth house.

I know of at least 2 other regular posters on NSC who are former SGS pupils. Interestingly, all the boarders had to be in Holland House because he was the guy that founded the school back in 1614.

SGS was, and still is by all accounts, a good school. Ron Tulley, John Alabone, Peter Bolton (RIP) - happy days.

 

[Trufflehound]

Rip
Pig
Panic


...surely?

Those were the names of the prefects...

 

[aftershavedave]

Drake (green), Cook (blue), Raleigh (yellow) and Nelson (red).

how very strange, that was the same as my school, in essex.......

 

[Theatre of Trees]

That's right I think, if you're talking about Downs and the surrounding roads. It was like that when I was there anyway.



B = Bordeaux I think. Tideway by any chance? I thought C was Caen though.

C was Caen it was the only one I could remember before reading Tubthumper's and your posts. B was Bordeaux as I seem to recall that was the one I was in.

 

[dunno]

St Lawrence in Hurstpierpoint went with Pakyns (Green, and the best), Danny (Blue), Langton (Red) and Wickham (Yellow). All are the names of big-ish houses in HPP, except Langton which is a lane.

I was Wickham....but in the 1970's