Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

If my memory serves me well this tension between the two sides in the US would have been the theme for classic westerns like "Shane" (Alan Ladd and Jack Palance) Ranchers vs settlers. Is that right? Spot on. But (adopting a more serious expression) I think we're now in the wrong thread in...

What was the night time activity like in Col A John? The dormitories were a public forum. Nothing could happen without everybody else seeing and hearing. And commenting, loudly and for weeks thereafter. Col A, taking its lead from Kit Aitken, was inclined to prudery, censoriousness and mockery, so ...

Would barbed wire have been that widespread in the 19th century? Besides, what would have stopped the boys using the normal entrance to the adjacent cubicle...? Barbed wire was becoming practical and widespread by the mid-1870s. It made it economic to keep cattle off good arable land. Barbed wire s...

As an aside, both Scotland and NI voted to REMAIN by more than 52:48, so you could argue that if we are going to fully respect the 2016 referendum result, the option for them to decide whether to leave the UK and rejoin the EU/Ireland should have been granted when the UK officially left the EU in J...

Concerning eucsgmrc's mention of 'elite schools', I do not know what he means - perhaps he would care to define them, please? Grammar schools? Public schools? There's plenty of excited public discussion about this kind of thing, and has been for years. I'll leave it to the people who get excited ab...

If the topic is independent schools, then we've already wandered off the point within the first day of discussion. We might get more clarity if we try to distinguish issues about independent schools issues about boarding schools issues about elite schools I'd like to raise one point about independen...

rockfreak wrote: ↑Fri Aug 28, 2020 10:03 pm I've lost John Wexler's thread where there is mention of ...

It's not my post, but you'll find it a long way down in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3860

Memories of trunks and even suitcases being lugged around, with the resultant arm, back and shoulder pain, make me wonder why wheeled luggage didn’t exist back then. That Louis Vuiton trunk did have casters - four of them, on the bottom, and they weren't steerable. It was a struggle to push the thi...

As for the trunk it was a hand-me-down - very thick leather, too heavy empty to move and covered with shipping and hotel labels. Lots of us had hand-me-down or second-hand trunks in Sejintenej's and my era. There were plenty of them in junk shops (which don't really exist nowadays). My father found...

"... many went awry for reasons the Germans were never able to establish. Of those launched from the Pas de Calais several ended up near Paris, another near Brussels ... Those may not have been intended for England. It's now almost completely forgotten that Antwerp was also the victim of a pro...

I suspect that Mr Flecker was not a scientist; otherwise I would probably have expected him to have written that the buildings were stressed: stress being the force applied; strain being the resulting deformation. That's all very well if the stresses and strains are within the elastic limits of the...

rockfreak wrote: ↑Wed Jun 24, 2020 8:27 pm On corps days he was one of those masters who was prone to dressing up in khaki and generally hanging about.

I cannot imagine a better or more concise description of "the officers".

I too recall seeing it very occasionally on Little Side. It looked perfectly capable of gliding, but not soaring, so with a bungee launch it would never be able to get far off the ground. I'm sure it would respond to all the normal control inputs of a plane, but it only had a brief time to respond b...

The school hadn't been modernised since the victorian era and the food was mostly inedible. Not true. The school was brand new, very modern and equipped to a high standard when it came into use in 1902. It was by no means a typical Victorian institution. That said, the 1902 kitchens were still in u...

Reading Alex Renton's book about boarding schools, 'Stiff Upper Lip', I came upon the following passage: ...But there is no mention of the birch or William Gibbs in the official history. and subsequently, rockfreak says "What is the Christ's Hospital Book if not an official history?" I'd ...