Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Jabod2 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:17 pm Many similarities to loringa's comment (what years, Andrew?).

I was in LHA as a junior house 1973 to 1976 (2nd form to LF), and Col A as my senior house from 1976 to 1980 (UF to Sci Grecians). I was not on the fast stream!

This is the thread referring to the punishment book.

In retrospect how did CH teaching help you in later life? Christ's Hospital was excellent preparation for my chosen career though it wasn't one that Ratty James the careers master wanted me to go in to particularly. Despite making a horlicks of my maths A Level (Grade D :-() my A Levels were good e...

He was a Justice of the Peace. https://www.wycliffe.co.uk/the-wycliffian-society/obituaries/richard-poulton/ https://www.chforum.info/php/viewforum.php?f=42 Interesting - my daughter has just finished at Wycliffe (cue outrage from Mr Redshaw though he has been very quiet of late) and, though not wi...

I just caught up with this thread, eighteen months late. In my day at CH (1970s), small-format British war comics and American-style comic-books were still referred to as trash mags by the boys, which leaves me wondering when and why the term first came into use at the school. As some will know, al...

David - I think you are probably referring to this: viewtopic.php?t=731 which originated with a post from eloisec back in 2005 which I think could be read as cri de coeur. I suspect she moved on to better things - I hope so!

I can't believe that Wellington was a "promotion". What caused him to leave CH ? Was he, as a somewhat old-fashioned headmaster-don, and a professing Christian, just out of touch with educational developments in the 1970s ? I think Wellington would have been seen as a promotion, however, ...

Indeed it is, from Ware in Hertfordshire but probably a boy from when the younger pupils were educated outside London. You can see the picture in full here: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/blue-coat-child-301083 and you can read the plaque if you scroll left and right. If you Google 'bluecoat sc...

It seems that as things got worse and worse in terms of pastoral care, bullying and general fairness and decency during the 80s and 90s as widely reported elsewhere on this forum, the punishment system became more and more complicated. In the 70s we broadly had: Drill - running around the loop by th...

I think you need to ask the school directly: https://www.christs-hospital.org.uk/contact-us/. I would suggest a phone call backed up by an e-mail so you have a record. Also, I would find out what they mean by employment in terms of hours worked if that indeed is a requirement.

Off topic I know but ... As for one's interactions with those who supported Brexit and those who voted to remain, it is becoming increasingly difficult to identify the former group as they have gone so very quiet (including on this forum)! Within my (extended) family, as far as I know it was only a ...

As for the CCF and guns, did you not get to fire Brens on automatic fire on the range? Put on the clip (30 rounds was it - some army wallah can maybe put me right) and blast away. Imagining one of your least favourite master's head as the target. We also fired .303 rifles but they had a bit of a ki...

I clearly missed the original post but Richard was not only alive and well but, at least in 2019, running the Hereford and Gloucester OBs. I remember him well from the Scouts when John Shippen tasked him with teaching me meteorology (unsuccessfully). I knew he had a twin but John as I was in a diffe...

This subject has been moribund for over a decade but I thought I'd seek to resurrect it to see if anyone can advise what happened to the CH Scout Group. There is no mention of it on the extra-curricular activities page of the CH official website and the Scout Headquarters looked very much as if it h...

I remember it well; it was truly awful and there are various mentions in other posts.

You are spot on about it being weird and some absolutely terrible dirges: 'We can build a tower, we can build it high ...'