Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Actually I'm a bit surprised it's taken so seriously. As a matter of interest, HAS anyone been expelled for this offence?

Corks (Rev WCM Cochrane) always wore a Broadie to hold his trousers up. Seeing that Broadies are not readily adjustable, that seems peculiarly eccentric. (But of course, he was. The last time I ever saw Corks was in the Rising Sun, his watering hole by St Paul's. He wandered in wearing a sort of Ch...

I had a booklet of rules in the early 90s. It did prohibit 'sexual intercourse, the penalty for which is expulsion'. I'm amazed it was so explicit. Is it still the penalty? In c. 1960, to coin a phrase, it would have been: "First find your girl." (By that time, you would have left.) Of co...

In June 1963 I was part of the official Horsham Grecians' delegation to the Hertford Speech Day. Walking from the chapel to the hall, we were surrounded by clicking cameras. Has NO ONE a photograph of this event? (A coloured one would be especially great -- there is no known colour photo of me in un...

First day Arrive at a country station of quite extraordinary size. Man with red hair and ruddy complexion (ALJ), plus two grecians. Forest of rugby goalposts, approaching red cliff. Pleasant-looking housemaster, pleasant-looking nursemaid. In wardrobe queue, notice strange hierarchy: Matrons' Dining...

J.R. wrote:Keynsham....

Thats spelt K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M !

That's the guy -- with "my famous Infra-draw method".

If anybody feels like giving (or selling) me a copy of a co-ed rule book, I'm in the market. In the 1950s/early 60s, Radio Luxembourg was the only source of pop music. Hearing the electric opening of Cliff Richard's "Move It" (his first and only decent record) in a dark dormitory was reall...

Doc Matthews was another of Seaman's innovations, and by the standards of the time (1950s/early 60s) he was very enlightened. Before he came, sex education was left to housemasters (the mind boggles; thankfully I just missed that). The Doc Matthews lectures were three sets of four double-lesson illu...

Until 1958 or so, if you wanted to know the School Rules, you had to consult a typescript, which, in Thornton B at any rate, was kept outside the housemaster's study. One of Seaman's innovations was to bring out a printed pocket edition, which everyone was required to have. I presume that updated ed...

postwarblue wrote:Illuminated v chaste pic of 16 yr old starlet called Joan Collins.

...and there was me thinking Joan Collins had been 33 all her life.

Who is this Fiona Bruce I keep hearing about?

1946-54 forms were 3rd Form (skipped by the clever) 2nd Parting took A Levels & redbrick entries left at this point 1st Parting took Oxbridge's own exams in November & than stayed on for the rest of the year supplying house captains, school mons etc. subject to maybe being called up for Nat...

It seriously was his surname. I met him once at a Founder's Day Dinner.
"Call me Stiff," he said.

The sentence reads: For example, many fittings (around half) installed in UK homes cannot realistically or aesthetically accept ‘stick’ CFLs, DELight, 1998; though this issue is reducing with the uptake of look-alike lamps). Booker chooses his data selectively. "Aesthetically" is a mat...

I prefer the coolness of the low energy bulbs as after a few years the heat from the old ones discolours and eventually cracks the plastic of the fittings. True. You often see on lamps: max. 40 watt. This is because of the temperature. The very brightest low-energy bulbs are 22 W, so there's no pro...