Public school takes offspring of gasfitters and the unemployed!

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How the mighty grace us with their largesse:

LOL at Jasper Gerard: "The school takes children of gas fitters and the unemployed, as well as those of Sevenoaks bankers."

Well isn't that just marvellous!

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Puke

What is a gas fitter anyway? I've always wondered.

It's some sort of term that very posh people have for plumbers or somesuch

More to the point, the schools were giving bursaries for the children to go there.

My dad was a gas fitter. The person who mends your boiler when it's broken down. Only they're called service engineers now...

I like to think of them as heating engineers.
No call for gas fitters where I grew up - we didn't have gas.

Hugely patronising article.

Hmm - not a good idea to get either my dad or DH (a mechanical engineer) on the subject of fitters being called engineers

Dad called himself a fitter btw.
He isn't posh.

That's odd. Dad called himself a gas man. I say he was a corgi

Ooh - Dad very of some corgi fitters too. He worked for the gas board, in various incarnations, and latterly British Gas. He is a gas fitting snob I think...

indeed Peaches - the sentence where they say this will not benefit Telegraph readers - why do they assume none of the disadvantaged read the telegraph?

You need to have a spare £30k/year to send your DS to Eton. I doubt the majority of Telegraph readers have that much cash lying around.