Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

And again! Today, 12 July.

My letter is titled "Wealth has migrated away from ordinary people". As you can imagine the FT rather goes in to bat for those put-upon, internationally mobile, "high net worth" individuals who are supposedly doing so much for our economy and national life. I contest ...

rockfreak wrote: Wed Mar 12, 2025 10:07 pm So no response to my points about investing.

Probably because you never reply.

I’m surprised a house in Gravesend has much value at all.

VAT seems the fairest approach and long-overdue. I’ve no desire to bankroll the scions of MoD and Diplomatic Corps staff, nor the rash of Chinese (HK or otherwise) that take up a significant chunk of the private sector.

Some bells are ringing. The post that talks about Drummond (Scott's assistant) having an affair with Nan. As I recall from my mercifully brief stays in the Sicker, Nan was one of the cleaners (described here as an orderly). I remember her as a rather nice, motherly woman who had a smile for every ...

Actually, St Matthew’s Day was the first time that I came to realise that there was such a thing as a mixer-sized can for fizzy drinks. The Corporation of London was so hard up that it couldn’t run to a normal can and so we all got the teeny-weeny cans.

20p. And a whole lot of standing around.

The really profitable gig was selling programmes for the Lord Mayor’s Show. That was nearly £50 and about 1/2lb of tobacco.

I went from Aston Webb’s CH to Aston Webb’s BRNC and they were spookily similar, except that at the time BRNC (Hawke Division at least) was quite well looked after whereas I vividly remember how tired and jury-rigged the boarding houses at Horsham were. Now it’s Dartmouth hitting the news for being ...

I remember her, sad to read the backstory.

Our resident scratched record will be along shortly with a book recommendation.

It seems fitting that his passing is recorded in this sub forum on the abuse cases.

The school has since closed the hyperlink to the original statement it made after Dobbie’s conviction. But it did say at the time:


“it is clear that abuse at Christ Hospital was enabled not only by the ...

As I reflect, I think it’s remarkable that we bestowed so much ceremony on receiving such dreadful food (in the time of Mrs. Keeley, mass-poisoner).

ISTR much worse transgressions than this in my time. We started one band parade under the Big School arches and ‘buzzed’ the band. PeA stopped ...

The less martial pageantry the better IMHO. I can see the value of doing it say, once a week, but it was a chore doing it daily.

I've posted elsewhere about how our housemaster in the 50s called the recently pubescent pupils in to his study to warn us about homosexual liaisons, it being illegal at the time. I remember how many fancied other housemates but were all paranoid about turning out gay - which then could be the ...

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 small number of the ...

Anyone remember the 1985 screening of Beverly Hills Cop?

I've commented on this before, but I would be interested to see if any of my peers would think that I'm looking back through rose-tinted spectacles. I have no recollection of this sort of thing going on in the 60's. Rigid hierarchy, yes. But physical punishment by monitors had been banned the year ...