Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Thanks. Some other variances from Magee: 1. Boom MacNutt took me through Herodotus in UF 1949-50. I have not the least recollection of him being a violent man in any way! More that he would set us work in class and then sit silently at his desk, I suppose composing his Ximenes crossword. Indeed he t...

NT Fryer - scrum half for Harlequins - as a Grecian I was sent to take one of his classes on a Match day. The class tried to set light to me but fortunately did not succeed. A long forty minutes. He took over Col.B at short notice when AH Buck was sacked in 1955? 56?. Fallic Matthews - wore an old s...

I took a bad boiled egg up to Miss Stephenson once - 'Just a bit fresh' she scoffed, refusing a replacement - the very thing it wasn't!

I know I'm late on this but I have just caught up with, and finished reading 'Growing Up in the War', Bryan Magee's fascinating tale of CH 1942-8. I was only five years behind Magee but one or two things about my experience were completely different. Unfortunately I seem to have missed David Miller'...

From memory, Col B facing the camera from left: half of me, Dunning, Hudson, Bingham, not sure maybe Turner, Polley, Mr Buck at head of table.

Christian names left out to avoid controversy, nicknames left out to avoid others' embarrassment!

And my question - when did Grecians start buttoning their cuffs (see my pic via CH Photos).

Going back to the fifties (!) - Broadie for UF and above, Narrowie below. Both were called girdles. So something's changed!

Making mock of uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms and they're tarnation cheap ..

As an aside to englishangel, when the girls came to Horsham for the Quatercentenary in 1953, one of them on passing the pillar-box by the Common Room asked 'Are you allowed to post things in that?'

From the lumber room of the mind .. 'Take with the left, shake with the right, and bow to the Lady Mayoress.'

Better late than never - in 1954 (the only year I was, as a button Grecian, eligible) there was the usual fixture with Bramley (an independent girls' school in Surrey). I believe it was charmlessly entered in the school calendar for the term as "Grecians' Dance vs Bramley (home)" but thaty...

http://picasaweb.google.com/RJHGriffiths/Housey_Pix has four pics of me at CH. NB UNBUTTONED Grecian's cuffs.

In the 50s staff lunched on the dais with Rainbow hovering about them with a large enamel jug of beer. The most elect boys lunched with Flecker at the centre table (without the beer!). A housemaster sat at the head of each house table, senior monitors athis end, junior mons (who also served the food...

Great Plum, if you peer long and hard at

http://picasaweb.google.com/RJHGriffith ... 4410204274

this may answer your qn re the narrowie!

Outed in y'day's Sunday Telegraph as (a) and Old Blue (b) 'Dave' Cameron's strategy guru (c) an oik scoring only 5/10 on the toffometer.