Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I wasn't over the moon about Mrs Ireland until I read the interview with her in a Scottish newspaper, where she says of Gene Simmonds: "But he's a middle-aged American and doesn't have the energy to get up to any trouble these days." Not so much the "killer touch" as a stiletto s...

My opinion is that the children come out of it with flying colours, particularly when compared with the popular image of 13-year olds. They are bright, intelligent, honest and very articulate, my only criticism being that they are a tad serious, but maybe that will change as things develop. I had ne...

After all these years I can remember one lesson and the teacher who gave it with total clarity. It was chemistry, we were sitting on those high stools and the teacher was "Pop" Bevan , a rather scruffy man with drooping moustaches, who always looked tired. For months we had been going thro...

Dear Julian,
Thank you, sir. I'll try and get it right next time! We old blokes take a bit of time to get into all this stuff!
David

If the man in question was indeed an Old Blue, it must surely have been David Stewart (LB 1925-31) , comedian, hypnotist and actor, whose speciality was a one-man cowboy show involving rope-spinning and lassoing. He began doing it at the age of five in Cairo and, according to his Blue obituary, at ...

How about this for a serious proposal? There seems to be little doubt that: 1. Generally speaking OB Day is not very well attended. There are too many reasons to set out here, but: 2. Most people attending this year felt let-down, due to an apparent lack of interest by the school, early closing of m...

If you were "trying it out for a year afterwards" were you the one with the whip or the one with a fag in his mouth?

One of the enduring memories of my two terms in Prep B in 1948-49 is of us all being assembled in the main hall to be given a demonstration by a man dressed in cowboy outfit. He had whips, lariats, lassoos and the like and had, alledgedly, learnt it all in the Wild West. One of his tricks was to use...

Concerning organised activities on Sundays, was there not also something called "House Out of Bounds" or "HOOB" which lasted from 2 o'clock to some time at about 3.30 or 4pm. Admittedly it was not organised in that you could go more or less where you wanted, but it was still a co...

DavebytheSea's memory, considering his age, is pretty good. However, I believe that he has omitted one room. Starting from the showers and working towards the toilets, there was a junior changing room (as Davebythe Sea says), without any lockers, just a row of pegs down either side and two benches, ...

Concerning the R.S.M., the man in the early 1950s was named Carter, although he was normally referred to as (if I remember correctly) the "sagger-magger." His son was in Peele A, became a Grecian and went on to university. The armoury in the early 1950s contained some extraordinary weapons...

To follow-up on the comments on my message, I am sure that something is going on somewhere , and I am, of course, aware that committee members have other interests, and that everything takes time, etc, etc. However, I have 2 points. One is that it would not take more than ten minutes for somebody to...

It is now two full months since the meeting which disbanded the CH Club and set up the CHA. During those two months we have not received one word from the new CHA/CHAB as to what is going on. Is there a chairman of the CHAB? Is there a manager? Has Mark Curtiss been replaced? Is anything happening? ...

Many people seem ready to criticise the Club and the Management Committee, but without either offering to serve themselves or suggesting an alternative/s which is/are demonstrably better. Serving on the Committee requires an inclination to serve allied to a commitment to attend committee meetings, o...