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Greyfriars, st trinians, chalet school............where would you really like to have gone

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zippitippitoes · 14/07/2006 21:29

and who with?

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southeastastra · 14/07/2006 21:30

grange hill

beansprout · 14/07/2006 21:31

Malory Towers - I went to Grange Hill and it was crap.

Waswondering · 14/07/2006 21:31

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southeastastra · 14/07/2006 21:31

with trisha and tucker

beansprout · 14/07/2006 21:33

Darrell was a brick

Blandmum · 14/07/2006 21:33

Malory Towers. I wanted a tuck box and a trunk. I would have been freibed with the gipsy girl with the firey temper

I couldn't cope with the chalet school....trilingual

clairemow · 14/07/2006 21:34

Definitely the Chalet School, with Jo, who always seemed quite cool, married Jack later and had about a million kids in a house whose name meant "friendship" or something - all that mountain air, running away from Nazis and speaking 3 languages without even trying. I thought it was just me that had read all the Chalet School books! My mum had them all in hardback, still got them somewhere, and have read them again and again and again. Tophole (oops, might get fined for that "slang").

Am I sad???

Waswondering · 14/07/2006 21:58

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KBear · 14/07/2006 22:00

I always wanted to be one of the Four Marys! Were they in Bunty comic, my memory fails me?

Caligula · 14/07/2006 22:01

Hogwarts. With Harry, Hermione and Ron of course.

Although I did always like St.Clare's better than Malory Towers and would have been Carlotta's best friend

Erasmus · 14/07/2006 22:02

Malory Towers. Darrell Rivers was my heroine.

Mercy · 14/07/2006 22:04

I was mad about St Clare's - midnight feasts etc (but they probably feature in all those books) The Sullivan twins!

Albert · 14/07/2006 22:09

Chalet school for me too, with Jo of course. But I quite like Caligula's idea of Hogwarts.

LadyTamba · 14/07/2006 22:10

Hogwarts!!

KateF · 14/07/2006 22:10

Clairemow - I would have gone to the Chalet School with you! Would have gone later though and been friends with Jo's triplets

WideWebWitch · 14/07/2006 22:15

Malory Towers or St Clares.

MeAndMyBoy · 14/07/2006 22:42

Not sure I can decide between Malory Towers and the Chalet School. Loved them both and wished I could have gone somewhere so much more exciting than my little village school. Ho hum. Chalet school might be tipping the balance though.

nikkie · 15/07/2006 20:08

Hogwarts or the Chalet school
any more CS fans may like thecbb

beatie · 19/07/2006 11:00

Malory Towers too.

ComeOVeneer · 19/07/2006 11:04

I went to a school in Wiltshire (now closed down) that was very similar to St Trinians. All girls boarding school with the attitude that we should be allowed to develop without boundaries. Resulting in people walking out of lessons (or not even attending) if they didn't feel like it. No school uniform so we wore jeans etc etc. I was only there a year then my parents took me elsewhere but it was the best year of my schooling.

anthonykiedisbitontheside · 19/07/2006 11:04

Definately , Malory Towers i'm definately a Darrell type.

cupcakes · 20/07/2006 12:31

Malory Towers or St Clares for me too.

JackieNo · 20/07/2006 12:34

Malory Towers with its open air swimming pool, or the Chalet School - remember being very impressed with one bit where some girls are out walking and they meet Jo who's got on spiked boots so she can walk in the ice and snow. And she could whistle really well, too, couldn't she?

Arabica · 20/07/2006 13:34

I also went to Grange Hill! The place where it was filmed first, in NW9! And yeah, it was crap. I wanted to go to Miss Arrowhead's school of dance, as immortalised in Noel Streatfeild's Gemma books.

PrettyCandles · 20/07/2006 13:38

It has to be the Chalet school, either in its really early days before Jo got to be head girl, or in Wales during the Second World War.