School houses?

We had colours as well for houses, Chewbacca

In primary school, Crafnant = red, Cowlyd = blue and
Geirionydd = yellow (all lakes above the school)

Comprehensive, Aled = blue, Hiraethog = green and Crafnant & Geirionydd as above

All Sports days, eisteddfodau and suchlike meant points for your house through the year - it got very tribal!

I must have been in a house at my school but I can’t remember anything about it. I was in the Bullfinches in the Girl Guides, though. Does that count?

Similar to Septimia but instead of Hanover we had Plantagenet.

Gordon, Innes, Seafield. I was in Seafield.

Septimia I was in Windsor, and other houses were Tudor, Stuart, Lancaster, etc.

Were you in Guildford?

My school was castles. I was in Windsor, yellow. Then we had Uffington, red,Highclere, green and Donnington, blue.

Royce (red), Nightingale (green), Shaftesbury (yellow) and Pasteur (blue).

Chichester (Day House, colour green), Bristol (Day House, colour blue), Babbington (Boarding House, colour violet), Elliot (Boarding House, colour red) and one other that I can’t remember.

Junior school - Llewelyn, Maddoc, Powis and Caradog
High School - Barnes, Beresford, Boughy, Venables
School I was Bursar for 23 years became a sports college and the pupils and staff voted on new House names. They elected Woods, Radcliffe and Charlton - and Sir Booby came to open the school!!

and Sir Booby came to open the school!!

Sir Booby? Great one, made me laugh!

At primary school it was Malvern and Bredon.
At secondary school it was Grafton, Charlton, Avon and Abbey.

All names are associated with the Worcestershire area.

I was in Malvern (yellow) , then Grafton (blue).

Dacorum ( blue) Tudor ( green) Salisbury ( yellow) and Halsey ( red) in grammar school. We didn’t have houses in primary school

pantglas were you in Trefriw by any chance ?

St joans ( mine) green
St Ann’s yellow
St clares blue
St ... ow gone blank red Now I ll be thinking all night

Lancelot (Blue)
Galahad (Yellow)
Gareth. (Green)
Bedivere (Red)

I was in Lancelot (Blue)

Ours were ranges of hills. I was in Pennine, and its colour was red.
I can't remember the others.

Though, as far as I remember, I don't think these were really 'houses'. The only time I remember them having any significance whatsoever was on the annual sports day.

St Hildas red whoever she was phew

Close BBBevan - Ysgol Dolgarrog and then Dyffryn Conwy, Llanrwst!

Mine were Assheton (blue), Grey (yellow), Stamford (green) and cannot remember the colour of Warrington, maybe red

Junior school, Hampshire rivers. Hamble (red), Itchen (Blue), Meon (Green), Test (Yellow)

Being a girls school the houses were named after well known women:
Bronte
Curie
Nightingale
Fry

Yes, Sparklefizz. I was in Tudor, 1962-68.

Charlotte (Bronte)
Octavia (Hill)
Elizabeth (Fry)
Florence (Nightingale)
I was house captain of Charlotte.

I can still remember our house song which was sung to the tune of Robin Hood.

varian

Atholl, (yellow), Douglas (green), Lochiel (blue) and Montrose (red).

Varian, Douglas was definitely red, I still have my house badge! I think Montrose was green.you are obviously one of the old girls !

What amazing memories you all have....now, can you remember where you put your specs an hour ago??