Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

To hidden, It is perfectly clear that CH was appallingly badly run in the 1970s and right up to the 1990s, and you have every right to feel let down by what happened there. For some of us, like me, CH was actually a haven from an appalling home life in a single-parent household. For others, it was a...

'To be a Pilgrim', Bunyan's poem turned hymn is best known set to the tune of Monk's Gate, named https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yHJMPw8RHU, for the hamlet just south-east of Horsham, near Manning's Heath, around 3 miles from CH. A fine tune it is.

It's the second time the ship has done this in a few years. I only wish they could have been made to explain themselves to Chief.

No, it was purely a case of mistaken identity. During my first year at CH I went back to my old primary school in southeast London in my Housey uniform to meet my past school mistress again and show the class the unique uniform. Afterwards as I was walking back home along the streets a youth shoute...

Bernard Levin was a national figure in his prime, anyone under 50 has probably not heard of him. He moved a long way away from his early Bolshevik views as he matured, which was a good thing, and one to be emulated by some of this parish, one might hope. He was certainly the stand-out Old Blue of hi...

I am as certain as I can be that our chartered train went over the Thames to Cannon Street, thereby disgorging a disorder of pupils directly into the City without posing any undue risk to the Thames bridges, presumably much to the relief of the trustees of the charity that provides the bridges. Thre...

A wonderful life, condolences to his family. This shows CH at its best, setting bright people up to pursue their talents to the full. Without metallurgy, and metallurgists we really have nothing but wood and stone, our world would be a primitive wasteland.

I have no knowledge in this area, but I imagine that it meant that there was some form of structural damage from the blast. If it buried itself before exploding, it would (ironically enough) act like a weak 'earthquake bomb' as per Barnes Wallis's Tallboys and Grand Slams, the blast being conducted ...

I should add that when I went to the Mansion House for St. Matthew's Day, I do recall a rather good buffet having been proffered, a welcome upgrade on the usual CH fare.

The Corporation of London was so hard up that it couldn’t run to a normal can

The Lord Mayor and his Corporation; famously as poor as Dick Whittington's cat.

I am a bit shocked to discover that the artist behind the murals was celebrated to the extent of getting a 'knighthood', the paintings are embarrassingly awful and I had assumed that the Foundation was scraping the barrel and skimping on the artist by hiring a journeyman. It just shows how early the...

First of all, happy Founders Day to y'all, Julian calendar permitting. From what I remember (in my time at CH late 1970s to mid-1980s), the only mural I can positively recall shows St. Augustine preaching to some heathens as it commemorated his arrival in what became England. The rest I cannot remem...

There is an old thread on the Housey Special on the intro thread section https://www.chforum.info/php/viewtopic.php?t=4043

In my time, late 1970s, the great three of the Manual School were Mr Wyncoll, who made a valiant effort at teaching me woodwork, I know I exasperated him with my abysmal lack of skill, but he hid it fairly well. Poor chap suffered from the stress of the job later IIRC, he was also a CCF Major. Mr St...

I remember the 'interlude' in c. 1980-1981 (or thereabouts) when an apparently untuned upright piano was used in the Chapel during services with Malcolm McKelvey or someone else pounding away gamely to try to fill the void left by the organ refurb, Adrian Bawtree would have been there, probably a Th...