Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I still have this record in my "legacy essentials" LP collection, but I was always a bit miffed that after 7 years of singing in the chapel choir, I was prevented from participating in the recording by being sent to Cambridge to sit Scholarship exams (I am an Oxford graduate - enough said!...

Yes, correct now! Many thanks for your trouble. Keith Brown.

Malins was very generous to older boys with a musical gift (there was no way actually to study music for GCE in the early 1950s), and I remember him taking groups of us out in his Austin Hereford to play in local concerts. I was a clarinettist, and he did me the great honour of inviting the conducto...

Hi John! I just revisited this page after more than a year, actually to look at Roger Martin as House Captain of Barnes B in 1954-5, and I noticed you had commented on my plea to add Jimmy Read to the photo, and had indeed added his name. I hope you will forgive me, but I must point out that Jimmy i...

I would like to ask if an omission on the Barnes B photograph of 1955 could be corrected - the second row correctly identifies C J Jelley and A N Barnard, but omits J W B Read seated between them. James Walter Beaton Read (Jimmy) was my closest friend, but died of Hodgkin's disease tragically young ...