Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Where it does get tricky is the wide range of local words which can bring many a false friend or unfortunate initial mis-understanding. As a general rule, in Andalusia the accent is more like South American Spanish and the same with the Canaries. I have found Columbians, Peruvians and Ecuadorians t...

Not taken part in a riot. (OK walked straight through through rioting crowds in Milan (anti - bank), Accra (anti British) and Sao Paulo (anti bank) ) but I have been to Ikea and the other places referred to before.

Watching the Trooping of the Colour today made me think back to CCF parades at CH and especially when General Montgomery was the inspecting officer. That must have been the only military parade when participants were ordered in advance NOT to obey the General's command. Monty had a reputation / habi...

I didn't actually say we gave our consent at 11 years old. I said I visited CH and was eager to become a pupil. I didn't give a verbal or written actual consent but I did pass an entrance exam. Bearing in mind it was 54 years ago (for me), I was a child and all children had decisions made for them,...

And no other country in western Europe (with whom we might compare ourselves) seems to need this system - boarding is usually a last resort in these cases (parents peripatetic for instance) than a chosen option here for the Tory-voting, Telegraph-reading brigade or those less well-off who see Chris...

Please SCRAP that last post; I was thinking of a friend of S T Coleridge

Not sure about your history. ISTR he became tutor to the child of a woman living at Trereife, Penzance and eventually married her. Their descendents, the le Grice family, still own the house; I knew them all well and have stayed at the house. . When I was young the father was the Lord Lieutenant of ...

"Further evidence of idiocy down the rabbit hole. I have been awarded a Top Fan Badge by EDF Energy as a result of my many engagements with them. They seem to have missed the point that my engagements have all taken the form of angry emails protesting about their complete inability to get my n...

even the teachers can't do decent handwriting - we got the ruler on knuckles if we were messy. Thankfully attitudes are not so primitive and violent nowadays. True but just look at the results - abysmal and they had to get rid of O levels because they were "too hard" . My grand daughter l...

To hidden, The CH income test probably selected indirectly for children from the crop of single-parent households that sprang up in the 1970s on the back of the divorce reforms that came into effect in 1971 in England and Wales and probably led to a lot of pupils coming from broken homes. I suppose...

All this computer talk. No ' puters in my time at school. No calculators either. I'm going to dust my trusty abacus off and see if it's worth anything on ' Floggit ' !. I use an abacus at home and was taught by that Japanese lady (actually a Doctor in Mathematics) whose pupils appeared many years a...

Thanks for putting that up and specially for the text history.

I am indebted to a certain Mr Cross who points out that the cloth of gold canopy used in the coronation might prove too heavy for school children He goes on to point out that his grandson at Christs Hospital can bench press 104kg and is not the largest in his year. The Daily Telegraph did not post M...

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. Thr...

In the early 1980s, I do recall a chartered train taking us from Horsham to IIRC Cannon Street (probably I was in the UF or GE) to see the Lord Mayor and being presented with a packet of freshly-minted coins, the amount I'm not sure, maybe one 10p and one 5p piece (three shillings in old money), an...