Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I apologise for this mere male invading the girlies site again. Being born in mid-1947, I can just remember the end of rationing. Those funny books with tear-out tickets that my Mother used to guard with her life. The other memory was that FANTASTIC National Health Issue Orange Juice, provided free...

When I first went to CH nearly all the bowls were patterned, but as they got broken they were replaced by plain ones. There were still quite a lot of patterned ones left in 1952, so what did you youngsters do to them?

Sounds like she was no more forthcoming in her 30s than in her 50s. Was it the end of the war? At least we were spared the staff entertaining us. I was only at CH for the last year of the war, but the austerity of the peace was almost as bad. This was in many ways due to Sir Stafford 'misery' Cripp...

Hope I don't regret asking this Q. My wifes aunt (now deceased) taught for a short time at Heartford. Constance Richardson. She had a 1st in physics so I guess she taught Physics. When I new her she was a nun, but that dosen't mean I can help out with the speculation on the limericks thread. Althou...

I seem to have started something by posting about wartime food, and thereby admitting my great age! I joined 1's in 1944, just in time to catch the last mad fling with the V1 and V2 rockets. After we were woken by sirens for several nights running, when we trailed our blankets down to the cellar to ...

Dressing on salads-you haven't lived until you try the standard (ie every) Sunday lunch between 1944 and 1952. Corned beef, plain boiled potato and winter salad- chopped cabbage,celery and beetroot- with no dressing and no taste. Still we all survived and I did enjoy the economy lunch when rations w...