Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Think I posted this before, but Burr called the woodburning stove on The Empress of Blandings 'The Very Sod' (as in, 'Heat was in the very sod' from Good King Wenceslas).

Looks grimly ironic now

Well you and I wouldn't be the ones to ask would we Richard! The way Ron Lorimer ran things really wasn't my bag, and there were much more interesting things to do than supervise Late Trades. Some monitors were thoroughly decent, others definitely filled Shakespeare's description of 'man, proud man,...

Spent 15 years working just to the east of St Paul's untill quite recently so the first aerial photo is very interesting. The garden at Christ Church was revamped a year or so back and is indeed in very good heart and a nice spot to have your sandwich at lunchtime. Demolishing the east end of the na...

Sorry, being too cryptic. Burr, two years, awful teacher quite apart from other awfulness.

Sadly Elvie my own Physics teacher failed fairly comprehensively on both counts... (the more dots, the better at this juncture).

aka 'Ping'. A generally honourable but quirky sort of a chap, and not an obvious ringleader. Must have been a bad situation indeed to get his dander up.

But bringing the two strains back together momentarily, Founders Day Dinner on 5th October anyone? Invite has just landed in my mailbox. Now that might just be an interesting evening....

Being a Governor doesn't make you one of the Illuminati, believe me; but I think I'm still on the list; and I am going to attend the next Governors meeting if invited to ask this very question (among others). Anyone fellow Governors here for whom enough has become more than enough please PM me if yo...

And I'm sorry to drag this up again but I simply cannot comprehend how the school could decide to bury Webb's previous conviction rather than realise there would inevitably be other victims. There was a clear choice: protect the school, or be part of the solution. This was 2015 for goodness sake, th...

One CH Lodge (Votum), two Chapters (Royal Arch and Rose Croix) - no idea of the difference between a Lodge and a Chapter, but they used to be listed in the back of The Blue in the 70s with David McLean (Head of the Royal Mathematical School) listed as one of the contacts. Sillett still listed as an ...

Nick Plumley. Late summer term 1973 post exam lesson in Prep Library. Sun streaming through windows; I've just been promoted to 2A. Plumley goes round the class asking each of us what we want to be. Me, no idea, say an engineer. Plumley: Interesting, I think you could go to Trinity Hall to read Law....

I'm thinking 75. I went up to senior house and joined the CCF at that point, and I reckon that was the first year the RN section was offered as an option.

....of course the inconsistency which saw him removed in such short order while Webb and Burr were allowed to carry on, and on, and on is one that I would very much like to discuss with anyone left from those who were in charge of the school at that time. The mind can only boggle at how grevious his...

Yes indeed Stan, I had been quietly wondering when someone might mention this character. I remember everything about him apart from his name; he didn't even manage a single full year from what I can recall. Lt Barret? Bartlett?? Come on memory, work damn you... The light rumour mill concerning him w...

There are I suspect a number of us from the 70s who remember Burr, Webb and Husband well and who are quietly watching from the shadows. To me, there are three strands that bring it all together: 1 We are conflicted; CH was bl**dy unpleasant, particularly if you were young, small, blond, blue eyed an...