Hard to believe what my high school looks like after 44 years.The memories of such a fine school.How many of us went to the other school of hard knocks about 200 metres away called The RLI.
Hello Stephen Ward. I echo your statements! My brother and I attended CBH. He was there 1962 to 1965 and I did only Form 1 there, Widdecombe Junior High for Standard 4 and 5. My brother was a prefect at CBG and his jacket was a solid blue while my coat was the standard deep brown for the "masses." Our parents were Methodist missionaries in central Congo from 1957-1960 and S. Rhodesia, stationed at Nyadiri just south of Mtoko where my father worked in the mission hospital as the pharmacist and administrator. I recall walking out of the assembly hall one morning to go to class after the daily assembly. I walked into the frame of a window that, when open, pivots at the middle leaving the frame to get the forehead of an student not paying attention to where he was going. Cut forehead and a lot of blood...but hard head! The students at CBH were blessed to have Group Captain Douglas Bader visit the school one day from England. As I recall, our houses were named after RAF airfields in WWII--Detling, Raynham, Tangmere and Kenley. He was an absolute hero and incredible human being! I remember my history and geography teachers were two national cricket players, David and Tony Pithey. Both were appropriately expecting discipline in the classroom and appropriate participation. I remember one day in David's class a boy in the back falling asleep. David picked up a piece of chalk and we knew what was coming. We all raised the lid on our desk to shield ourselves from a possible errant shot. When his cricket-trained arm let loose, the chalk flew and struck the forehead of the sleeper. He WAS awake after that episode! Tony assigned homework one day consisting of a contour map of a hill. We were told to take one projection off the hill and show how the side of the hill transitioned from the bottom to the top. The next day in class, Tony went around the class asking who had the work completed. There were 4 or 5 miscreants who admitted to not completing the assignment. This was out of 25-30 boys. Tony stated that if it were just one or two, he would have let it go. With our larger number, he decided to send us to Mr. Edie, the deputy headmaster!! We each received 2 cuts! I recall my rearend stung for a long time that day! I enjoy the memory of taking French from a middle-aged gentleman who was likely very studious. The class was in one of the low, one-story separate classrooms. With extreme boredom setting in one day, I climbed out of the window near me in the back of the class, walked around to the front of the classroom building and then walked back into the classroom where the rest of my French class sat. I do not recall if the teacher ever noticed I left! I tried to plan a trip back to Rhodesia in 2004. I wanted to bring my parents, my brother and his wife and my younger sister/husband/daughter along with my wife and I and our two daughters. The situation was apparently in flux enough that I just did not feel that such a trip would be safe. I wish that it could have occurred. I believe that my parents, especially, would have enjoyed revisiting the country, our mission station, our old home on the station and the hospital where my father worked. They are gone now. I am glad I came across the CBH website and your comments. I would enjoy having the chance to meet. Most of all, I pray that you will recognize your need for Jesus to be your Savior as each of human beings does the same. May God richly bless you!
Good one wee Brucie 😊
For context the area shown should be stated in the title?
Hoping to get one soon! Good luck with yours Bruce!
Thanks Ian. We'll worth the price. And great fun.
Getting quite the hang of it now Bruce. Well done!
Thanks luan. Glad you are watching my channel 😀
Same thing with gifford high where l learn
This is africa and african rule, not the people, the governments, and they way they let infrastructure go to shit.
Hard to believe what my high school looks like after 44 years.The memories of such a fine school.How many of us went to the other school of hard knocks about 200 metres away called The RLI.
Hello Stephen Ward. I echo your statements! My brother and I attended CBH. He was there 1962 to 1965 and I did only Form 1 there, Widdecombe Junior High for Standard 4 and 5. My brother was a prefect at CBG and his jacket was a solid blue while my coat was the standard deep brown for the "masses." Our parents were Methodist missionaries in central Congo from 1957-1960 and S. Rhodesia, stationed at Nyadiri just south of Mtoko where my father worked in the mission hospital as the pharmacist and administrator. I recall walking out of the assembly hall one morning to go to class after the daily assembly. I walked into the frame of a window that, when open, pivots at the middle leaving the frame to get the forehead of an student not paying attention to where he was going. Cut forehead and a lot of blood...but hard head! The students at CBH were blessed to have Group Captain Douglas Bader visit the school one day from England. As I recall, our houses were named after RAF airfields in WWII--Detling, Raynham, Tangmere and Kenley. He was an absolute hero and incredible human being! I remember my history and geography teachers were two national cricket players, David and Tony Pithey. Both were appropriately expecting discipline in the classroom and appropriate participation. I remember one day in David's class a boy in the back falling asleep. David picked up a piece of chalk and we knew what was coming. We all raised the lid on our desk to shield ourselves from a possible errant shot. When his cricket-trained arm let loose, the chalk flew and struck the forehead of the sleeper. He WAS awake after that episode! Tony assigned homework one day consisting of a contour map of a hill. We were told to take one projection off the hill and show how the side of the hill transitioned from the bottom to the top. The next day in class, Tony went around the class asking who had the work completed. There were 4 or 5 miscreants who admitted to not completing the assignment. This was out of 25-30 boys. Tony stated that if it were just one or two, he would have let it go. With our larger number, he decided to send us to Mr. Edie, the deputy headmaster!! We each received 2 cuts! I recall my rearend stung for a long time that day! I enjoy the memory of taking French from a middle-aged gentleman who was likely very studious. The class was in one of the low, one-story separate classrooms. With extreme boredom setting in one day, I climbed out of the window near me in the back of the class, walked around to the front of the classroom building and then walked back into the classroom where the rest of my French class sat. I do not recall if the teacher ever noticed I left! I tried to plan a trip back to Rhodesia in 2004. I wanted to bring my parents, my brother and his wife and my younger sister/husband/daughter along with my wife and I and our two daughters. The situation was apparently in flux enough that I just did not feel that such a trip would be safe. I wish that it could have occurred. I believe that my parents, especially, would have enjoyed revisiting the country, our mission station, our old home on the station and the hospital where my father worked. They are gone now. I am glad I came across the CBH website and your comments. I would enjoy having the chance to meet. Most of all, I pray that you will recognize your need for Jesus to be your Savior as each of human beings does the same. May God richly bless you!
Bruce it's Kevin Van Zyl, friend of grant chambers, Wayne jeffreys call me please 0745292647 .
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I like the video as a former student of cranborne boys high,Nigel Tanaka Name is my name : well known as Namnett ,may God bless my school
I like it
king Name, 4 East ..am Tadiwa Ali, 4 West class of 2017