Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I was delighted on reading last weekend's Financial Times (the UK newspaper) to see an iconic picture of CH prominent on the front page of the Life and Arts section. Those who have not seen the article (which contains a few words about CH besides the photo) and who are interested can probably find i...

Another less well known CH artist, broadly contemporaneous with B Rubbra, was WA (Bill) Riseboro, MaA 49-57. He left CH for a distinguished career in architecture and town planning, but at CH he was quite active in painting and there were several of his works in the Art School. Perhaps his best know...

Please, could somebody closer to this complex subject than I am give a balanced assessment of how far/how well this formal statement responds to the concerns of the petitioners? It is tempting, on the surface, to see it as evasive and not really addressing the issues raised, but I remain open to a m...

I agree whole-heartedly with David -- both his observation and his suggested general solution. I have myself for some time been uneasy about the School's apparent increasing movement away from its original ethos. I overlapped for about four years with David at CH and I imagine that he and I share ma...

I'm not familiar with his poetry at all, but if he's as good as suggested it's a pity that he has not been recognised more at CH. I can connect with much of what is aired in the post and I had a fairly literary time at CH (1953-60), not long after the 2nd WW, but there was definitely no mention of K...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1227889/Top-public-school-closed-swine-flu-strikes-100-pupils.html ... not sure where how they came up with those fees! I too got the news from the Daily Mail as I did my daily read of the UK papers on-line. Sorry about the news itself and I'm out of touch wi...

To Old Blues of an earlier generation, people like Rob Gauntlett and their achievements have made us proud of our associations with CH -- no matter how stretched these associations may have become through time or distance. I live now in Penang, Malaysia, and was enjoying my breakfast as usual in a l...

For a community that is scattered world wide (even though its centre of gravity is in the UK) a bulletin board like this could work wonders. I have used bulletin boards for almost a quarter of a century, since the emergence of the first PCs (I worked for a very large oil company then and the employe...

Yes, the school Web site is useful, but it damages its credibility with the poor standard of its English. There is even a glaring grammatical error in the first paragraph of the home page! If I was a parent, considering the school for my children, this would worry me. Doesn't anybody at the school w...