Reply to: How posh was your school?

[Martin Scroatman]

Not posh, but had famous alumni, one of which trades on being posh

The irony being she's as common as muck

[gables]

Double-barrelled surnames just means your parents aren't married. How we mocked that common oik Farquhar Foxley-Smythe.

We would've mocked Farquhar as well

[ZARDOZ]

Not posh, but had famous alumni, one of which trades on being posh

[Chuck]

34. It was wasted on me, I was too lazy. A bit like life really.

[OwlHoot]

You callin' Gillingham (Dorset) Chav-Ville???

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although from the comments it doesn't sound too bad

[LondonManc]

We had a Prime Minister as alumni, along with multiple rugby and football pitches, a cricket pitch with practice nets, tennis court and a sixth form common room.

Other posh tulipe not mentioned in the survey:
Houses (named after significant people in the school's history)
Subjects like classical Greek, French for Business
A careers advisor
A separate main entrance that pupils were not to enter/exit through
A games master (with a fondness for watching pupil
Guest lectures from the likes of Ranulph Fiennes, some famous pathologist and other "famous" professionals

[SueEllen]

15 -

The sports field was the gap between us and the local mental hospital.

The swimming pool was used by every primary school within walking distance.

[Uncle Albert]

34, we did have the children of a former dictator amongst our alumni.

[WTFH]

29, but we had 6 rugby pitches, not 1, and when I was there, football was not considered a proper sport to play during PE.

[Martin Scroatman]

You callin' Gillingham (Dorset) Chav-Ville???

[vetran]

Guys Marsh?

nope.

I did live in a Poshish town.

[Martin Scroatman]

13 and we had an exchange program - with the local Borstal!


not sure how French & Latin lessons with a Rugby pitch make it posh.

Guys Marsh?

[vetran]

38...

Head Boy was an order not a role

we called her head Girl & she was.

one of the few advantages of a comprehensive we had women! The Grammar school woofters were jealous, they were rubbish at Rugby as well.

[EternalOptimist]

We had a strict 'short back and sides' policy in our school. If yer hair touched yer collar, it was the cane. six of the best.
My mate got hold of a wig and put it on in the middle of assembly.

The whole school stopped singing, mid 'Jerusalem' and stared at him. over six hundred pairs of eyes on him as he belted out 'bring me my bowwww....'
Thirty five middle aged war veteran teachers eyes bulged out and veins throbbed in their temples.

poor mate couldn't sit down for a week

[FatLazyContractor]

what's the latin for 'Brace yourself I am going in dry?'

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