Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Clearing out father-in-law's house (EJR Morgan, Thornton B in the '30s) we came across an unopened pot of Morgan's Pomade, bought for him as a joke by his sister. It now resides in the museum at the London College of Fashion where his daughter works. It contained lead acetate...

My recollections are of being on a CH Scout camp in Cwmcynwyn, Brecon, and having done a Scouts challenge walk into Brecon, watching it through the windows of a TV shop. By the by one P P DeW Burr was on that camp with JDS and ...?

I had the jab in the sixties - and have had flu twice since. I don't think that is fully attributable to clean living. What was the name of the injection - novichuk, or something...?

I think it was Roger who pushed the limit of Pongo's (limited) lattitude by declaiming/'spoonerising' 'Give us hearty thanks' at Grace at a time where there was a competition to see who could get away with what. His voice was notable then. Other tricks were reading it as fast as possible, or having ...

Crab, flab and Muck was the slang name for the dining room trade of getting/clearing the bread jam/marmalade and butter for the tables thoughout the 80's and Kiff was still standard use for dining hall tea. I recall it as CRAM, flab and muck for the individual items in the 60s/70s. I also still hav...

For some unknown reason the word 'drut' recently came into my head so I thought I should post while I remembered! Whether it was a word peculiar to Maine A in the mid sixties or a more general term of CH slang I don't recall at this distance. It was a derisory term for somebody considered wet and p...

apologies in advance to those of a sensitive nature - The bocker whose job it was to clean the bogs in Mid.B. had a habit of regaling anyone who would listen to him about his latest discoveries therein : "Gawd, it was THAT big, buggered if I can shift it, can't get it round the bend, wot 'ave ...

Intriguing to hear the story behind the stories. In my time there was a tale of a junior being threatened in Shelley Wood resulting in 'tooled up' (hockey sticks featured) Housie mob rushing of to confront an bunch from Muntham. The tale I heard recounted that a six footer bluecoat drew a line and i...

Steve will be relieved to know that he is to be remembered for introducing Mid B to chip butties .... I don't remember the cannabis incident, (probably pre-senile dementia, or senile dementia more likely) it obviously didn't knock his acedemic career off course. There were other cannabis incidents ...

Milt surely came from a seaman homonym 'Milt is the seminal fluid of fish, mollusks, and certain other water-dwelling animals who reproduce by spraying this fluid which contains the sperm, onto roe (fish eggs)' - or was that too intellectual for pupils? Certainly many others were far from subtle!

huntertitus wrote:Horsham staff list early 1969 Pot Bevan, B*gger Haydon, Ping Vincent Smith... Some teachers were referred to with their first name and not a rude nickname, like

Pop Bevan, Chunder Hayden, Instant-Smith, Basil Gregory, Tom Keeley.

Milt for Seaman. Spewsome for Newsome.

huntertitus wrote:Just remembered another

BO Shippen

Why BO?

B.O.

Ah - the punishment of turning his sleeping bag inside out to air after a misdemeanour on a Scout camp was very severe...