Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Kit Bartlett wrote:I believe I am correct that female teaching staff were not admitted to the Masters'Common Room
when first appointed during WW 2, They were presumably given an alternative place to eat and socialise. This did not prevent a number of Inter staff marriages however Miss Bays , Miss Barlow and Miss Tyrell all married CH Masters.
Chris Bartlett

This was certainly true until at least 1963. They ate lunch at the table on the dais nearest the quad, along with Manual and Music School staff, and masters who brought guests. They did not, of course, have Common Room dinner in the evening. Nell Todd used to complain about that. (But at least, unlike matrons, they were allowed into the Dining Hall.)

I never knew where the female teaching staff ate, but when I arrived in Col.B in 1944 we had no junior housemaster and the room that would have been his study, next to the dayroom, was used as the Ladies' Common Room, where they could go and meet together.