Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Can somebody explain to me how to insert a picture? I want to show you all what I did with my broadie buckle.

englishangel wrote:Have you SEEN the height of modern teens, and the size of their feet? They need big beds.

the host school gave us 5' beds on the music tour to calcutta... and you couldn't hang off the end otherwise you'd come out from under the mosquito net.

Richard Ruck wrote: Back in the '70s, for example, a careful stylus inspection took place before records could be borrowed.

I heard about that. if they were so well looked after and protected then they should have been worth selling, or maybe keeping in the spirit of tradition and such.

It seems to me to be a great shame if the dayrooms are to be abandoned. Where do the juniors go for time with friends, 'playing' and prep? And where does the house gather together? - do you still have roll calls after tea, or house meetings etc?

the juniors congregate on Back Ash, unfortunately ...

I'm not sure of the rules regarding old blues day... (shameful) but I don't see why you shouldn't see a boarding house. Middleton is the only one left unscathed...

The far staircase, (emergency staircase) was out of bounds except to monitors and for use in the case of emergency.

As far as talking ...

ground floor, fair enugh. I don't like the sound of that either. What happened in Col was the seniors had the middle floor and juniors above, then common rooms, dayroom, kitchen etc downstairs. one flight of stairs definately preferable to two!

Grecians west has bedrooms on the ground floor and ...

mostly seniors, though the unfortunate ones sometimes get sent to the top floor. No more progression downsairs when one comes of age...

I haven't seen the developments recently, Lucy, but the last time I was down at CH, I couldn't help but think that the current re-development was taking away the School brotherhood/sisterhood ethos by sffectively isolating pupils from one another.

Isolation and mental health 'cells' rings a little ...

Vonny wrote:What's where the day rooms were?

Bedrooms. theres loads more single rooms in the new houses, and a kitchen/tv room where the common rooms used to be, towards the back of house.

Not sure... They were in the process of updating the Col A one when I moved out.
I don't doubt that the houses seriously need doing up, just annoyed that they had to get rid of the individuality etc. The earlier ones (Lamb, Peele, LH) don't have dayrooms any more, and they're all refitted to ...

Does anybody else seriosly disapprove of what's happening to the avenue houses?
I'm told that It's necessary under 'Health and safety' (can't stay in a padded box forever though) but can't they do it without stripping the houses of their individuality and turning them into identical whitewashed ...