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by sejintenej
Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:42 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Teaching staff
Replies: 38
Views: 10829

Re: Teaching staff

All this computer talk. No ' puters in my time at school. No calculators either. I'm going to dust my trusty abacus off and see if it's worth anything on ' Floggit ' !. I use an abacus at home and was taught by that Japanese lady (actually a Doctor in Mathematics) whose pupils appeared many years a...
by sejintenej
Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:21 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Programme of Marches Played by the Christ's Hospital Military Band
Replies: 3
Views: 337

Re: Programme of Marches Played by the Christ's Hospital Military Band

Thanks for putting that up and specially for the text history.
by sejintenej
Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:14 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: From the sublime to the ridiculous
Replies: 293
Views: 133908

Re: From the sublime to the ridiculous

I am indebted to a certain Mr Cross who points out that the cloth of gold canopy used in the coronation might prove too heavy for school children He goes on to point out that his grandson at Christs Hospital can bench press 104kg and is not the largest in his year. The Daily Telegraph did not post M...
by sejintenej
Thu Dec 14, 2023 1:36 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: St Matthew’s Day
Replies: 14
Views: 61539

Re: St Matthew’s Day

I am as certain as I can be that our chartered train went over the Thames to Cannon Street, thereby disgorging a disorder of pupils directly into the City without posing any undue risk to the Thames bridges, presumably much to the relief of the trustees of the charity that provides the bridges. Thr...
by sejintenej
Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:53 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: St Matthew’s Day
Replies: 14
Views: 61539

Re: St Matthew’s Day

In the early 1980s, I do recall a chartered train taking us from Horsham to IIRC Cannon Street (probably I was in the UF or GE) to see the Lord Mayor and being presented with a packet of freshly-minted coins, the amount I'm not sure, maybe one 10p and one 5p piece (three shillings in old money), an...
by sejintenej
Tue Oct 24, 2023 9:04 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Paintings in Chapel - Frank Brangwyn
Replies: 24
Views: 34016

Re: Paintings in Chapel - Frank Brangwyn

I also recall it being said (probably by my brother 3 years ahead of me at CH), the murals were made deliberately awful/error-strewn to give boys something of a distraction during Chapel and/or as an alternative means of getting the message across. I have zero drawing/painting talent but I greatly ...
by sejintenej
Tue Oct 10, 2023 5:54 pm
Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
Topic: Ken Grimshaw
Replies: 57
Views: 109066

Re: Ken Grimshaw

Bringing it back to Ken Grimshaw, I remember him teaching me Techical Drawing for O Level and always appreciated his patience, although I expect I tried it near to his limit! I have used my drawing 'skills' (not so hot) a number of times through my working life especially when I was running my own ...
by sejintenej
Tue Oct 10, 2023 5:46 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: On this day 70 years ago
Replies: 16
Views: 70148

Re: On this day 70 years ago

My memory of films at CH was that they were a pain in the ...... as well as ears. As I recall the Dambusters was the only one worth seeing. On one occasion I got into painful trouble because the film of the fortnight was so bad that I walked out midway. Outside of CH the only film I saw was Sink the...
by sejintenej
Thu Oct 05, 2023 9:54 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: On this day 70 years ago
Replies: 16
Views: 70148

Re: On this day 70 years ago

. When I tell people today that at the age of nine you were expected to make your own bed with proper hospital corners, help clean the house - and then learn to march like soldiers (dress from the right, left foot out, etc etc) they are aghast. [/qu.ote] When I mention it people are equaly amaxszed...
by sejintenej
Wed Oct 04, 2023 9:28 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: On this day 70 years ago
Replies: 16
Views: 70148

Re: On this day 70 years ago

Today, 70 years ago, I arrived at CH. I wonder how many of the 100 or so other boys who joined on that day will still be alive, still interested in CH, and will read this post. Please say hello if you see this. In my own house, of my year-group, two thirds have passed away, but I was recently in to...
by sejintenej
Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:24 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: On this day 70 years ago
Replies: 16
Views: 70148

Re: On this day 70 years ago

Sejintenej, Thanks for your comments. By the way, these triggered one of those rare Eureka moments. I finally realised why you go under the name Sejintenej. Reminiscent of a vigorous old hymn at CH! LOL. I'm not sure to which hymn you are referring. In fact possibly our (ex)Finnish contingent may h...
by sejintenej
Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:35 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: % of full fee paying pupils - any update available?
Replies: 13
Views: 62228

Re: % of full fee paying pupils - any update available?

I’ve just had this in an email. It shows 23% paying full fees. We are delighted to announce that for this academic year Christ’s Hospital is committing a record £24 million in means-tested bursary support. This means that of the 876 students at CH, 672 (77%) students will receive a bursary, averagi...
by sejintenej
Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:07 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: On this day 70 years ago
Replies: 16
Views: 70148

Re: On this day 70 years ago

I arrived 364 days before you to what appeared to be (and turned out to be) hell. Apart from a few formative years I had lived in a tiny village many miles from nowhere. The schol had I think 7 pupils including me, all in one class, with a teacher who, in retrospect, should have been retired a decad...
by sejintenej
Fri Sep 22, 2023 1:04 pm
Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
Topic: Sentence of Peter Webb referred to Court of Appeal
Replies: 66
Views: 71178

Re: Sentence of Peter Webb referred to Court of Appeal

Lengths of time without offending (if indeed there wasn’t any offending) happen for reasons such as your access to victims or habitual means of offending becoming blocked or restricted, being in a new relationship or some other life/family event that gives you a new perspective (or leaves you with ...
by sejintenej
Fri Sep 22, 2023 12:54 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Matrons
Replies: 27
Views: 31922

Re: Matrons

Certainly we preferred the assistant for Matrons inspections. Remember those? Think they were twice weekly; check you were clean and your feet for varuccas, hair for nits etc. As squits we spent the 1st half term stressed about these inspections as 3rd formers convinced us that every so often there...