Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Julian,

Yes, I'll upload everything in due course for the "purists".

Part 4 now uploaded: http://youtu.be/K-7vvOnNEsM

Part 3 now uploaded. All Hertford footage. http://youtu.be/hKyyK6sKXds

Part 2 now uploaded. This features some Hertford footage: http://youtu.be/DwyIa94e0yI

Closing credit names Terry Clark.

For those of you who are aren't music lovers ( ) or who live in Germany ( ) here is the video with original audio: http://youtu.be/Xw0fkig5KLU

Older readers may remember VHS video cassettes. (For younger readers, these allowed films to be viewed in the comfort of one’s own home before it was possible to store films on round shiny discs or view films on a zob machine.) Anyway, I’ve come across one of these technological curiosities enti...

If homosexuality be wrong, let them marry. Why should they have to wait to hell to be punished?

Yes, and Maria was also at Horsham.

In my time, I don’t remember any particular ginger related bullying (which, given the extent of verbal bullying in those days, is perhaps surprising). However, given I only recall a limited number of ginges at the school, there do appear to have been rather a large number grouped in Maine, includi...

The school’s Annual Review 2010/11 gives a breakdown as to how the school’s expenditure was funded for that year: Unrestricted legacies and donations – 4% Parental contributions – 18% Other net income – 7% Funded from investments – 71% What jumps out is how small the contribution from le...

The 1971 album, titled: “A Record of Music performed at Christ’s Hospital during 1971” is available to listen to on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUOd-nulU1c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMM3T1J4XQw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek7hgadyGJM Contains an interesting selection of mus...

I notice that amongst other notable achievements, Sir Michael Gray was Lieutenant of the Tower of London from 1995-98, which probably explains why he presented the painting. Does anyone know whether the C.H Band used to Beat the retreat at the Tower regularly (i.e annually) or whether it was a uniq...

The 2008 Meryl Streep film Doubt (well worth watching) features the CH choir’s performance of "Come, thou Redeemer of the Earth" over the closing credits http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0918927/soundtrack . This is presumably the same version as appears on the CH Silent Night CD. I wonder ho...

The photograph that appeared in The Times also appears on page 12 in the Postcards book in the excellent Christ’s Hospital Heritage series of books. The picture shows the Infirmary at London. The original postcard shows a nurse standing on the left of the picture, which is a bit of a clue. If The ...