Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

If someone wants to compile all the titles of films shown at CH Horsham in those days, I believe they were listed on the school Calendar. This was a small piece of printed cardboard, which also mentioned all the sporting and Debating Society fixtures, names of visiting preachers, meetings of the 19...

Thanks to Gina and the team for organising the 1980/81/82 leavers' reunion on Saturday. The weather held out just about, certainly enough for Band Parade, lunch was excellent and it was good to see both the improvements made to the theatre (including comfy seats) and how the museum has developed. Ev...

Maddren was a nasty piece of work and had anger management problems. Yes, he had a huge amount of rage stored up, which was unleashed without warning for tiny infractions. I don't know if he had anger management issues or he simply enjoyed doing it. I remember Maddren being a well-respected chemist...

Which pupils of the 60s became masters in the 80s and 90s...? Were there many...? I don't know the answer to this particular question but what would undoubtedly have been the case is that a significant number of members of staff would have been educated in the 1960s. I wonder whether the laissez fa...

I remember a few fights between squits in the Peele B library/quiet room after lunch in the early to mid 90s. The fights were organised by the LE for entertainment, I don't think the 2nd formers were actually wanting to hit or fight anyone. The LE would make up stories of how someone had insulted s...

Thank you for your response Anthony.

I do rather wonder what due diligence is available to authorities such as these over and above the standard DBS check to which I assume everyone is subjected if they are going to work with or in close proximity to children. I believe that this can contain material which was deemed insufficient for a...

Interesting obit in today's (30 Jan 2022) Daily Telegraph on Tom Bradbury (LaA 34-39). Brought up in Walworth, his grandfather was a horse tram driver, his father a labourer and his mother a pickled onion seller. He won an LCC scholarship to C.H. and the rest was a steady rise to the top of his pro...

I am in possession of a transcript of the (over 1 hour) of evidence that she gave under oath in the Karim trial. That would leave no objective observer in any doubt that 1. she knew of abuse allegations, 2. She knew they were of substance. 3. The responsibility for referral to outside agencies lay ...

I think it might be time for a word to the wise. This issue is clearly very important to some of our contributors for reasons which are entirely understood and, I think, fully justified by the cases that have been prosecuted to date. It would, however, be sensible to remember that this forum is acce...

I for my part feel slightly differently; I shall not let Brexit be bygones. For now, Brexit is poison and I hope that historians excoriate those who chose it, equally I hope that they are able to record it as a short period of history before we saw sense and sought some form of re-union on undoubte...

I'm not one of those fervent Rejoiners, I am trying to be pragmatic - I accept the result, though I don't agree with it, and we have to get on with life. I really want to be proven wrong and hope that somewhere along the line, some genuine advantages and new opportunities come through Brexit. I jus...

Covid is making for an extraordinarily convenient smokescreen for the various problems that we are facing, especially the difficulties in healthcare, haulage, food supply and foreign travel. The overwhelming contributor to most of these problems is not Covid, it is Brexit. If one were to be very cy...

Ed. I got totally pissed off with the EU and those who ran it. The UK was always the lesser dog, with its ministers dumped in minority roles. What, other than, for example, Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy? As one of the wealthier nation...

I particularly suggested that a severe updating of the council tax bands would be a good idea. These have not been uprated since 1991 because the last time someone tried to meddle with them they got it wrong and riots ensued. I've often wondered whether taxation of wealth is the way to go, instead ...