Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

In my experience very few were bullied overall and even fewer bullied severely, although the majority knew it happened and usually ignored it ... If others agree, please say so Based on what I saw at primary school, I had my own ideas about what bullying was, and I rarely saw it at CH. I saw nastin...

... Bishop Bell ... preached a sermon which included "the valley of dry BONES" ... Most comic. I never knew that! Could it have been the origin of the Coleridge A tradition that reading the valley of dry bones passage at evening duty was hysterically funny? Of course, it was absolutely ta...

That was when the Albert Bridge was still a suspension bridge, which it now isn't. Pedants' corner: it never really was. It has an interesting history (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Bridge,_London) and used to have a "twin" in Prague. Last time I saw it, which isn't very recent,...

I think I saw that film too. Or rather, I know I saw the film - it sticks in my mind to this day - and I think it was at school, probably at the FBS.

The caption explains: "This picture shows one of the last scenes at Christ's Hospital in Newgate Street, for when the school reopens it will be at Horsham, and then the boys will no longer appear in their picturesque costume. Mr Spence's illustration shows how the boys used to spread the tablec...

Kit Aitken used to advise leaving Old Blues about not smoking in the day room ... Kit treated smoking very severely. On the other hand, he avoided noticing boys drinking if they didn't make it obvious. He was a formative influence on me. Thankyou, Kit, for keeping me away from tobacco, and thankyou...

I was famously clumsy and uncoordinated, and was a manifest disappointment to the manual school. I had to do woodwork in LF and metalwork in LE, and I was always behind and having to re-do stuff. Imagine my surprise, years after leaving school, when I realised that I could remember how to do simple ...

I don't recall having to 'pay' for films from my pocket-money. Maybe it was kept quiet in Coleridge B !! Pocket money would make a good topic for another thread, but I'm too idle to begin it. So ... In Col A, so far as I remember, Kit declared (to parents) an acceptable maximum and minimum for a te...

sejintenej wrote:There was a science master and his brother (who often came to visit) who were known as AC and DC (or vice versa). I don't know if I ever knew their correct names.

Alan and David Chaundy?

... and, to return to the original topic: we used to believe that Kirby was taken very seriously by the Army as a consultant on the performance of their communications kit. His lab often had rather fancy military radio sets, big and small, and we understood that he was an expert in getting the best ...

... the RSM would hand out three sheets and say: 'One up, one down, and one to polish!' ... I don't recall that at our CCF camps but I had heard it was standing orders during WWI. Standing orders? That would not have made it any easier. Still, that kind of experience continues to come in useful in ...

My memories don't quite match, but that's the way memory works ... I recall, when I'd been at school a year or so (I started in 1954) some Old Blue donated much better projection equipment - probably something retired from a Real Cinema. The quality improved and breakdowns got fewer. I remember dist...

Possibly of interest to Old Blues (and others) who direct or sing in choirs: Canasg Music publishes music for choirs and groups of singers, mostly a cappella . The music is almost all by living composers, and not available elsewhere. Canasg is a small business with three partners, one China, one in ...

According to legend, Kit once posted a notice to say that matron would inspect only the juniors for tinea, and it was the seniors' personal responsibility to inspect themselves for "tinea and pedia cruris".

Wonderful stuff! Thankyou for reminding me of that, Michael. I had never actually seen it all through, although I knew it existed. I followed a link to it once, saw that it was more than ten minutes long, didn't have time to watch it to the end, and decided to come back another time ... and never di...