Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Col A 1974:- http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy122/bobcrawshaw/CH005.jpg http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy122/bobcrawshaw/CH006.jpg Top to bottom, interesting that is is much easier to remember older boys than younger boys, we must have looked up to the older years and ignored the younger one...

I've had another look at the 1972 picture. Phelan is the guy in the glasses next to Swalwell (later a Cambridge Soccer Blue) not extreme left back row. I think 2nd left back row (next to the phantom Phelan) might well be Bill Oakley and the chap looking down with his arms folded extreme left second...

.............continuing on, Col A one year later, Summer 1973 http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy122/bobcrawshaw/CH002.jpg Some of the names have come back to me since the previous one, top to bottom:- Williamson, ?, Midgeley, ?, Andy ?, Sheffield, ?, Broadbridge, ?, ? Brown, Fleetcroft, Avent?, S...

Just to prove that Ch did still operate during the late 60's/early 70's, there being so little material around:- Col A summer 1972 http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy122/bobcrawshaw/CH003.jpg I will have a go at the names but it is a bit patchy, top to bottom:- Phelan, ?, ?, ?, ?, Andy ?, Williams...

Maine A summer 1969 http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy122/bobcrawshaw/CH004.jpg I'll have a go at the names from top to bottom:- ?, ?, Stickley, French, Farnfield, Johnson, ?, Courtney, Broadbridge, Lingham-Wood, Orchard?, Penny Coupland,"Egg", ?, Fleetcroft, Wyatt, Morse, McKie, Roger ...

From memory the Club opened towards the end of the summer term 1972 which was the end of the first year. I might be wrong though and it might be 1973. I well remember the place as JamesF35 and I became the first people ever to be suspended for excess drinking in the summer of 1978. Drinks were paid...

Brilliant! Just a year after I left, some may remember me as band captain, anyhow I recognise a fair number, Arthur Bland as the very blond cymbalist for example.

OK, didn't get the previous picture insertion right try this:- http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy122/bobcrawshaw/CH001.jpg Of note too is the original horsehair mattresses we slept on (most comfortable mattress I have ever slept on) and the open settle, cast iron with a wooden lid which we kept o...

I rather wish there were informal photos by the Horsham boys. Perhaps it was not the done thing to photograph each other? Or they weren't allowed cameras? Somewhere I have some very primitive photos of Col A horseplay and rugby (plus c'est different, plus c'est la meme chose...) taken by Bob Crawsh...