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- Mon May 13, 2024 11:06 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Rubbish service
- Replies: 1
- Views: 350
Re: Rubbish service
"Further evidence of idiocy down the rabbit hole. I have been awarded a Top Fan Badge by EDF Energy as a result of my many engagements with them. They seem to have missed the point that my engagements have all taken the form of angry emails protesting about their complete inability to get my n...
- Mon May 13, 2024 10:55 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
- Replies: 28
- Views: 133702
Re: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
even the teachers can't do decent handwriting - we got the ruler on knuckles if we were messy. Thankfully attitudes are not so primitive and violent nowadays. True but just look at the results - abysmal and they had to get rid of O levels because they were "too hard" . My grand daughter l...
- Fri May 03, 2024 2:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
- Replies: 28
- Views: 133702
Re: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
To hidden, The CH income test probably selected indirectly for children from the crop of single-parent households that sprang up in the 1970s on the back of the divorce reforms that came into effect in 1971 in England and Wales and probably led to a lot of pupils coming from broken homes. I suppose...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:42 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Teaching staff
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13654
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...
- 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: 4
- Views: 1701
Re: Programme of Marches Played by the Christ's Hospital Military Band
Thanks for putting that up and specially for the text history.
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: From the sublime to the ridiculous
- Replies: 293
- Views: 165041
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...
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 1:36 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: St Matthew’s Day
- Replies: 14
- Views: 86013
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...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:53 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: St Matthew’s Day
- Replies: 14
- Views: 86013
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...
- Tue Oct 24, 2023 9:04 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Paintings in Chapel - Frank Brangwyn
- Replies: 24
- Views: 45672
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 ...
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 5:54 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Ken Grimshaw
- Replies: 57
- Views: 149122
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 ...
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 5:46 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: On this day 70 years ago
- Replies: 16
- Views: 97022
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...
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 9:54 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: On this day 70 years ago
- Replies: 16
- Views: 97022
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...
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 9:28 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: On this day 70 years ago
- Replies: 16
- Views: 97022
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...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 8:24 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: On this day 70 years ago
- Replies: 16
- Views: 97022
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...
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:35 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: % of full fee paying pupils - any update available?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 84644
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...