Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I think Bill Armistead had been Master of the Royal Mathematical School (to give 'head of maths' its proper title) and deputy to The Oil since at least the forties. Fryer took over Col B when Chinky Buck, who had been there since 1930, was sacked in 1955 (?56). About 1950 Mid B went to Gad Malins, w...

Mrs Riches (nb sp) was preceded by Miss Meek who gave the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Race cup to Coleridge. Mrs R had a son in one of the Thorntons. I imagine one of Matron's duties was to keep the senior boys' hands off the maids (in which, in one instance in Coleridge) there was a bit of a slip-up.

Gee thanks - there was a surprise!

PS just had a couple to lunch - I thought he was much my junior - horrified to discover he is 3 months older than me!

Prep, 3rd Form, LF, LE wore plain clothes up to September 1948 when LE got bluecoats - the rest the year after that I think.

The only accent I can remember standing out at CH was a Yorkshire one and its owner was given a perfectly ghastly time (which the housemaster knew about, and did absolutely nothing about). Re whether people change their accent, I had two great-aunts who went out to NZ in the 20s. When I met up with ...

The thing about this programme generally is that it introduces tips and titbits about genealogy that are genuinely helpful. No doubt thousands of OBs will now want to know what letters are held regarding their joining application - others the same for OB forebears and relatives. Rather than have all...

Horsham Staff list, 1950s: The Oil, Chinky Buck, Pongo Littlefield, Crapsac Page, bl**dy Johnnie, Man Sargent, Uncle Kirby, Gad Malins, Pop Massen, Boom MacNutt, Fanny Hurst, plus a lot of obvious ones based on Chriatian names.

Now I wonder why it seems to be females who don't like FB ...

I seem to recollect that red bathers became unobtainable during the war and for a while afterwards and a brown one was substituted - red came back in ca.1951 I think. There were two bods in Col B who used to do a double dive off the top board - one on his back, feet towards the water, pull his feet ...

Nicknames I remember from Col B include Chips, Tukie, Noggin, Slimy, Oosh, Stodge, Tigger .. perhaps better without the surnames now!

The thread seems to have lost sight of the 'doing away with the Votum' .... What was all thatabout please and somebody tell me that is NOT going to happen.

Even later in the day BUT 1. Why the very expensive paper - possibly at the expense of more space and 2. There doesn't seem to be any room for correspondence, particularly updates on previous obituaries. Curmudgeonly I know but I far preferred and could betetr identify with the OB section at the end...

It must be a jolly long time since drum skins were made from donkey hide and couldn't stand rain!

Also I rather doubt that commentator really cares about men in uniform.

The settles were sold off via an Old Blues' Day some years ago - I bought one - the sloping back nests just right behind the sofa. Invaluable for scooping infants' bits into. There's an old (?Ackermann?) print of one of the London wards which seems to show them at the end of the beds. I do believe t...

Sorry, double take!