Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

michael scuffil wrote:A prime number again at last, the first for ten years.

Careless. I made very sure that I got a full year between 66 and 68. I don't know how many I have left, so I don't like to miss one.

Brought back many memories! Glad you like them. If you're into nostalgia, you are welcome to explore some of my other albums on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jandsw/sets For Michael Scuffil - if you still have your old colour negatives, they're likely to be in much better condition than the...

Michael; John Wexler who left Col A in about 1961 -2 has posted a link to his personal photos which are on an outside site - have you looked at those? The link is https://www.flickr.com/photos/jandsw/sets/72157626099253537 - but you won't find what you're looking for, because my photos are all blac...

I'm glad I don't carry the responsibility of deciding which articles should be published and which should be deleted. I did see the "offending article" before it was deleted. It suggested things that I had not been aware of, so it did surprise me. On the other hand, it was no more outrageo...

I cannot believe that these people could seriously have run a barbering business with voluntary customers. That would have been utterly irrelevant in the school's thinking. Hair had to be cut for the same reasons that operate in the army: cleanliness and uniformity. The essential requirements were ...

All this resulted from all boys having learned to score for a cricket match. Each match, whether the school first XI or a house third XI, had to have a scorer, with an official record kept. All junior boys learned to score by having to act as scorers occasionally ... Later there would be non-athlet...

... I enjoyed your other photos on Flikr especially "On the hills- 1970's" they are very evocative of that period ... I'm glad you enjoyed them. In case you didn't discover them, there are two more nostalgia mines: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jandsw/sets/72157627797562261/ https://www.f...

Ajarn Philip wrote:A third possibility exists: you now realise you have more in common than you imagined ...

Well, let me consider what I have in common with Kit.

1. Fond of a pint.
2. Like sailing.
3. Nobody would expect to see me on a bike.

... You read us short stories like "Ali the terrible turk" a one eyed wrestler, and "Neither man nor Dog". Ah yes. Gerald Kersh. A debased taste, and not very suitable for 11-year-olds. I think I discovered him because Kit Aitken had read us those books in earlier years, but I m...

... I think it is unique to Housey, for, I know of no other (non-military) secondary, educational establishment which has a tradition of marching. I always assumed that the marching was a necessity, rather than some idiosyncratic whim of a militaristic headmaster. The school was condemned to marchi...

... you used to read to us brats in the Junior Dorm before lights out - each monitor would read on a different night. You introduced me to books I still have, and I'm sure I have a photo of you in The Pirates of Penzance (unscanned as yet) performed by Col A at the Prep Hall. Hello Robin Wild! I'm ...

In fact I don't think the monitors ever had fires lit Hmmm. Curious. I was in Col A at almost exactly the same time as sejintenej, and I remember nothing of coal carrying in my early years. However, I do think the two studies had their fires lit. Certainly, when, in later years, I occupied one myse...

I'll start off with the Philadelphia Orchestra playing Barber's Adagio for Strings Opus 11 which was recorded at the memorial concert for the victims of 9/11 We can certainly agree on that. Samuel Barber also used the same music for a setting of the Agnus Dei for unaccompanied chorus. That "ou...

Still having problems with Windows Explorer which may due to an Error Message "XAHook.dll missing" which I cannot resolve. A quick browse around the web reveals no authoritative description of XAHool.dll, but many dubious sites offering vague and untrustworthy advice. Some of them offer y...

Anything modern like jazz was verboten. I don't actually remember any such absolute policy, but perhaps Col A was less rigorous about such things because Kit knew very little about music. In my time - 54 to 62 - there was a "house wireless" kept in the dayroom, and switched on quite a lot...