Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Brain, waist and eye-sight are on my list.

If I had the ability to find waists, mine would be first on the list....

I still have mine but I really don't know why. It only means something to me and none of my family would have any interest in it. I'm not really a sentimental person and don't like needless clutter but for some reason I haven't been able to part with it. It is still attached to the original (circa 1973) leather girdle which is one of the ones with the embossed images on it.

Offers over £250 . . . ?

Euterpe13 wrote:... but how on earth did Julian find this bloke & broadie buckle ? and can he find other lost things too ????
( I have a long list, if so... )

Exactly , Barbara! I'm staggered at the thought of regaining the original buckle 37 years later! Superb.

Could Julian find my chapel cap, I wonder? It's marked with a blotchy 6:7.

Love

Munch

I'm very sorry to report that it was simply an out-of-the-blue email from someone asking if I could get in touch on their behalf - nothing more spectacular than that I'm afraid!

I've got a Chapel Cap.. but it wasn't my own. It was bought for me (new) on the day that they had the great Sale at Hertford (I was not able to attend in person). I used is as an after-dinner audiovisual aid when I spoke to the Caledonian Old Blues in October....
Unfortunately its a bit big for me (even now, 50 years after I went to Hertford). Maybe that's why it had not been given out!
Occasionally one does get belts and buckles on eBay. I challenged one seller a couple of years ago.. it turned out that the items had belonged to her no-good former boyfriend, who she had thrown out! She was therefore selling on all his things, including his Leaver's Bible. OOps. Wonder where he is now?

So, let me get this straight.
You get to keep the buckle when you leave? and you get a bible. These are collectable because......

Confused?

gemmygemmerson wrote:So, let me get this straight.
You get to keep the buckle when you leave? and you get a bible. These are collectable because......

Confused?

because we have all been . . .

charged never to forget the great benefits that we received in this place


I bet you're even more confused now !!

Oh, most definitely.

It all makes sense when you leave!

kerrensimmonds wrote:I've got a Chapel Cap.. but it wasn't my own. It was bought for me (new) on the day that they had the great Sale at Hertford (I was not able to attend in person). I used is as an after-dinner audiovisual aid when I spoke to the Caledonian Old Blues in October....

Kerren, I'm really curious! How did you use the chapel cap as an audiovisual aid?

Gemma, the CH leaving Bible is a very lovely one - golden crest on the front, The Charge (never to forget the benefits, etc) inside, with your name and date of leaving. Definitely something to treasure.

Love

Munch

Hello Munch
I put the Chapel Cap on my head - during my FD address to the Caledonian Old Blues - to demonstrate not only that we girls had to wear hats (the boys didn't), but to show how flattering the headgear was. I took it off again almost immediately....

Aha! I thought the chapel caps were really quite a nice part of the uniform. Velours and panamas, no!

Thank you Kerren. Any chance of you repeating this demonstration?

Urgh, no Munch - velours could actually look quite smart, whereas a chapel cap was just an upside-down cloth bowl dumped on your head - I cannot think of anyone who looked good in it ( except perhaps Anne Marie Kelly, who was so ethereal looking that she could have worn a teabowl and gotten away with it ... )

B.

I must tell Anne-Marie your comment when I next talk to her!