Prep School:

Jenner
Wilson
Holmes

Jr School
Athens,
Corinth,
Persia,
Rome,
Sparta
Troy

At College, boarding houses:
Newick
Hazelwell
Christowe
Boyne
Leconfield
Chandos was the girls boarding house and there were two day houses but they was for wimps.

Stoner Jr’s school houses are named after Malvern Hill’s peaks (I think Millennium, Perseverance and Jubilee

Same for both Primary and Secondary school –

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Welsh lakes, rivers etc: Alaw, Aethwy, Celyn etc.

Claims to be the first purpose-built comprehensive school in Britain.

Bell Baxter Douglas and anotherone.

Yourguitarhero might remember.

At Primary school the houses were named after historic figures from the local town

Asquith, Hardy, Dartmouth and Scatcherd. Why we didn’t also have Laurel always confuses me.

Austen, Powell, Valpy, Beckingham, Nettles and Hamonde – which I had to look up.

Important people in the history of the school.

While looking up the forgettable house name, I discovered that Simon Bird, the one with the glasses in The Inbetweeners was there at the same time as me.

Ruined castles near Kirkcaldy, a couple have since been restored and are inhabited.

Camilla, Balmuto, Rossend and Seafield..

Asquith, Hardy, Dartmouth and Scatcherd

I’m guessing you’re from Morley – who’s Hardy?

I’m guessing you’re from Morley – who’s Hardy?

Decent guess, Tingley. Not sure who he is, all I know is that Hardy was the red house.

Compton
Stanton
Burnett
Newton

Small villages in the surrounding area.

West house. You’d never guess..

St George
St Patrick
St David
and I can’t remember the last one.

probably St Anthony then, patron saint of, err, that thing, what’s it called now. It’ll come back to me.

Junior school was quite posh, so they were named after royal residences:
Sandringham, Balmoral, Windsor and er, anuvva one.

Secondary was common, so was just named after the school, Wakeford.
WAKE & FORD. 😆 Genius.

Cotswold
Segewick
Quantocks
Mendips

Never did explained why those 4……

Harlaw, Clubbiedean, Loganlea, Harperrig after Pentland reservoirs

Local landed gentry from th’olden days:

Davenport (Go Davenport!)
Vernon
Newton
Leigh

The football.rugby shirts we had to wear for PE were reversible; blue on one side, house colour on the other. And nylon. And whiffy.

Kingfishers Yellowhammers Robins and Woodpeckers – Only seemed relevant during sports day – Kingfishers dominated the egg and spoon for atleast 3 years running!

Haydock, Hurst, Barlow and Finch…

They were some of the “Lancaster Martrys”, elevated to mythical magical fairy elf status by the Catholic Church.

Then our school merged with a much rougher school from the wrong side of town and our school houses were replaced with numbers. Presumably because the new kids didn’t know about letters, never mind local 16th century religious history.

Six former pupils who died in the two world wars

Chavssse, Leicester, Maltby, Wilkinson, Walker-Dunn, Calendar.

We had North Sea oilfields for some bizarre reason – I was in Ninian, can’t remember the rest.

albatross
falcon
kestrel
merlin

3 birds and a wizard? 😆

Arundel
Bramber
Chichester
Hastings
Lewes
Pevensey

The rapes of Sussex

Trek
Cannondale
Orange
Scott

Rippon Tor
Hound Tor
Hay Tor
Sharp Tor
Bel Tor

(memory somewhat dubious as can really only remember the one I was in. Colour was red)

Apparently, most Americans think that J K Rowling dreamed up all that stuff about boarding school and houses and so on, and that she’s incredibly imaginative.

Red
Green
Blue
Yellow

Ded kultcherd we woz

Islands theme Arran, Bute, Craig, Cumbrae and later addition was Kintyre

Earth, Wind & Fire……

(I’ll get my coat…)

Ours were named after Native American tribes for some reason.
Crow
Sioux
Cheyenne
Apache

Cathedral school, so: Deans (my house), Abbots, Canons, and Priors.

Holland, Strutt, Mildmay and another one I can’t remember.

1st secondary school (girls school) – Austen, Bronte, Elliott.

2nd secondary school I couldn’t remember til I looked it up. Porteus, Hutton, De Grey, School House.

Shipman
Sutcliffe
Nilsen
West

My primary school had three houses named after local hills – Brimmond (yellow), Kier (green) and Ord (red). There was no house system in my secondary school.

Police
Construction
Native American
Cowboy
Weird S&M biker

Braeburn, Lymphoy and Moidart- totally unimaginatively, they were 3 big houses near the school. Braeburn was basically Gryffindor because a) I was in it and b) our colour was blue and blue is the best colour.

School
Winder
Lupton
Evans
Powell
Sedgwick
Hart

I think that was them anyway.

Local lighthouses (cool!):

Godrevy
Pendeen
Lizard
St Anthony

Middle school – Sargent, Scott, Ashcroft and Streatfield. I was house captain of Sargent. All famous people but I can’t remember which Sargent we were named after. Noel Streatfield, Peggy Ashcroft, I think Robert Falcon Scott.

Schoo,I work in has Thetford, Sherwood, Bracknell and Arden.

I can’t remember which Sargent

Malcolm probably