Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

This Forum is developing well but needs to attract more players also via the related CHOBA announcement.

I worked in Australia at Melbourne University 1964-8 very happily then also in Brisbane 1999-2001 and through also OB organizations in Victoria & Queensland gained a picture of the significant OB contributions to Australia and certainly this is an important story. Possibly the project I am propo...

Dear Kit
Very many thanks; i'll follow up. This book project is gaining legs. Have you any suggestions on essayists, themes?
All Best
David

The Head Master & Development Director are on board and the book will be simply offered to the Blues of 2021 as was the CH Book in 1953.

Very helpful and I'll follow-up. Glad to see all posts related to this book idea. David

In the context of the CH mission what was learnt from this experiment?

This topic has developed into the story of the widening home location of Blues on admission to CH and then the story of the diaspora of Old Blues worldwide.

David, Interesting anecdote especially involving TEA. I'm hoping this whole thread develops. The first step outside London admissions to eg Reading (West Gift) then to northern places like Derbyshire (Barnes Wallis was from Derbyshire) through to today (Hong Kong etc). Awaiting posts! I'm very optim...

This American initiative via seemingly EG Malins in the post WWII era is an interesting aspect of the globalization of admissions and could be explored as a chapter in the BCOB book. In the 21stC we have witnessed the widening of admissions worldwide as part of the FFP initiative - from the origins ...

Maybe someone could volunteer to write up this story of American Blues for this BCOB book project?

During 1950-1957 there was an American Blue regularly I believe. FCH must have full records.

Dear Brian

Many thanks. Jim Bell was a close friend of David Godfrey (now also sadly deceased) and they worked together with also their Housemaster Martin Barker (still active in Coventry) on CH/USA links and we need to progress their work via FCH. Ideas?

All Best
David

Many thanks. Have you more details of Betts - also Michael Craton?

The British Columbia Old Blues (BCOB) founded in 1930 via an initiative of HM Sir William Hamilton Fyfe and remarkably active ever since with several distinguished OBSRA's as members (Terry Bate - Media Entreprenueur, Timothy Parsons - Japan Laureate & Marine Biologist, Sir John Daniel OC - Meta...

Martha Sharp implied that under the new HM/CEO Simon Reid that a refocus on the original mission and ethos of CH seemed afoot - which should be encouraging in the context of reducing the FFP% to<10% by 2027.