Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on 09/08/00 from 172.17.4.90 via proxy home.cosco.com.cn:
In Reply to: Re: Schools (was: Re: PM: Roger & Latin) posted by Robert Dilley on September 06, 2000 at 15:14:29:
I was also a boarder at a state school, Colchester Royal Grammar, not so far away from Woolverstone Hall,(now Ipswich High School) which still exists. But, to get to the point, there are very good reasons for the children, except Tom Dudgeon, to go to boarding schools (almost certainly public schools). The Walkers are the children of a Naval officer often posted abroad. The Callum's parents are often abroad on digs, together, in the Middle East. The Blacketts' father was killed, we may take it, in the Great War, and in any case there would be no suitable day school for them to attend, near to Beckfoot.
On schools, note in WH that John say's "Lucky it's no the football term; a month would make all the difference about getting into the fifteen". He is referring to rugby union football (15 a side), and his reference to it as "football" confirms a mainstream public school environment where there is no risk of confusion with "soccer"