Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Many thanks for the rapid response, Richard. Much appreciated. I suppose what I was thinking was that there's a certain type of (generally young) person - male and female - who, having had a sexual encounter, enthusiastically relates all the details to his or her closest friends, partly for the sake...

Call me ignorant, but this is what I don't get: If someone is charged with an offence and then released on bail on the strict condition that they don't have any contact, direct or indirect, with present or former members of staff or pupils, how the hell are they supposed to enlist the help of any de...

I never heard the record, only saw the production itself, but I suspect the sound quality of the album could have been better. For anyone who's in the dark, Cain! was the school play in 1976 (I think): a collaboration between local prog-rock band Visitor 2035 and CH master/lyricist John Mason. If yo...

Can you believe it? A copy of the CH/Visitor 2035 album 'Cain!' has just surfaced on eBay. Yours for £115.17, squire. The seller will mail it from the USA for an extra £11.59. But probably these prices will have risen by tomorrow due to the weak pound. So what are you waiting for? You know you want ...

Years ago, not long after leaving school, I read David Niven's autobiography The Moon's a Balloon , in which he refers to hashish as having been known as kif in his early days. I immediately assumed that the tea at CH was known as kif because the pupils c.1920s believed it to have been drugged by th...

I can't help noticing that the House Photos section here doesn't include any halfway-recent house photographs or even any photos of the girls' houses at Horsham, even all these years on. Is this because there's another web forum for OBs elsewhere, where the relatively young and the relatively hip ha...

Going back to someone's suggestion that nobody paid the full cost in the seventies (and I read that as up to and including the seventies) there was the policy that once in the school you did not leave if the family fortunes changed. If their income increased then fees increased accordingly so it is...

Bafflingly, I'm still not understanding any of what you're saying, Dave. We appear to be attempting to communicate in different languages. Ah well, no matter. Life goes on. Fair play.

CHRISTOPHER BOY
(a non-smoker)

From a security point of view totally impracticable. What will the Horsham publicans do when someone in full uniform demands 2 Polish Spirit, a St James and four pints of Abbot! You've lost me, Dave. Non comprendo. How is it impractical from a security point of view if it takes place when the CH pu...

Having just spotted the "What happens to ‘retired’ Housey coats?" thread on page 1 of the General Chat - CH Stuff forum, I thought I'd revive this thread. I continue to believe that holding periodic Old Blues' Weekends involving the wearing of full Housey is a thumping good idea and would ...

My memories of the mid-1970s CH/Craig Pruess/Visitor 2035 production Cain! are getting pretty hazy now, so it's definitely time someone dug out their old vinyl copy of the privately-issued album, turned it into a file and posted it on YouTube. I've recently been listening to Visitor 2035's one and o...

1970s icon Pegleg ("Next smelly boy!") abused our hair and the skin of our necks throughout my time at CH Horsham. He did have a shop of his own, but it was in Shoreham-by-Sea, not Horsham, presumably so that Houseyboys couldn't easily exact revenge by throwing bricks through his shop wind...

Are the words stick and slurp still used at CH, denoting a swot and/or a pupil who tries to suck up to members of staff?

Thanks for that, Oliver and PR. Call me reactionary, but I dread to think what the (presumably) latter-day Housey slang is, even though it's certain to be no less valid than older terminology...as long as it doesn't consist of words which are also used beyond the ring fence by ordinary mortals witho...

Reverting to the original topic:

Do pupils still say "Quis?" "Ego!" or was all that stuff left behind in the days of Jennings & Darbishire, Billy Bunter and yours truly?