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In some ways it worries me that you should have to ask, since it means that our method of asking for material for the magazine is not very good.Sallz wrote:will do, where should I send it to?
First port of call is Margaret Wadman in the CHOBA office.Kim2s70-77 wrote:I have long since lost both user name and pin for the 'Who's Blue". How does one re-acquire such things??
Old Blues now have input into the Blue, so if it is from/about Old Blues, it goes through the OB editor.kerrensimmonds wrote:Sally's essay on the London end of the CH Foundation is fantastic.. hugely well researched, meticulously referenced, containing information I had never seen before. It was also very well presented. If we are to publish it, we should do so in entirety and not in an edited way - whether in the Old Blue, or The Blue. But if the latter, then I guess the School Editor needs to take it on?
I have just read the 5th Shardlake book (very good), and the map is reprinted in it, showing CH. On page 20 Shardlake passes the entrance to the old CH; he says it was being used to store the kings weapons etc. This is in June 1545.Foureyes wrote:Was there a Christ's Hospital in Newgate Street in 1540? The answer is a definite (well, 99.8percent) "no." I suspect that either the author, the publisher or the artist commissioned to produce a map simply found a map of that general era (presumably post-1553) and copied it without cross-checking dates and places. After all, the probability of a reader picking up an error must have seemed pretty remote - but that overlooked eagle-eyed Old Blues such as Katherine!
I have many photos of St Sepulchre and Christ Church which at some point will go on a new website I am planning to take the 600+ churches in London and the country. I'm in my 4th year of the project and it is fascinating work. For anyone interested there are masses of really lovely churches in the city of London, some of which give splendid organ recitals at lunchtime which are free and definitely worth going to.michael scuffil wrote:CH London was pretty vast. It occupied the quadrilateral between Newgate St (east end, opposite St Paul's), St Martins le Grand, Little Britain, and what on Google Maps is called Edward St (though I always thought it was King Edward St). Whatever it's called, it's the southern extremity of the A1, and Newgate St itself is the eastern extremity of the A40. The site is now occupied by the BT Centre. The main entrance was next to Christ Church in Newgate St, between the church and the churchyard, at the end of Christ Church Passage (facade now at the back of Big School). Christ Church was a Wren church that replaced the original Greyfriars' church, destroyed in the Fire. It acted as the school chapel until 1902. It was destroyed in the war, but the spire (one of Wren's best, go to google street view) was rebuilt, and the gutted church interior is now a garden. The parish of Christ Church was united with St Sepulchre at the other end of Newgate St, hence the present connexion. Of the original Greyfriars buildings, only what was called the "Giffs Cloister" (to be seen on many old prints and photos, it was semi-underground) survived until 1902. The rest was a hotchpotch of 17th, 18th and 19th century buildings, bits of which survive in places likely (CH Horsham) and unlikely (such as the marketplace in Beaminster, Dorset, which has the top of a tower. The town's Chamber of Trade has a simplified outline on its logo, and the structure itself can be seen, if you look hard, on the photo on the town's website.)
