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by Goatherd
Sat Feb 26, 2022 9:55 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Puke Fight!
Replies: 60
Views: 448414

Re: Puke Fight!

I've commented on this before, but I would be interested to see if any of my peers would think that I'm looking back through rose-tinted spectacles. I have no recollection of this sort of thing going on in the 60's. Rigid hierarchy, yes. But physical punishment by monitors had been banned the year b...
by Goatherd
Fri Feb 18, 2022 7:15 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Puke Fight!
Replies: 60
Views: 448414

Re: Puke Fight!

"I saw absolutely nothing at all like this when I was at CH in the 70s. There was undoubtedly bullying but nothing of this sort of vindictive nastiness". I was going to say much the same about the 60s.
by Goatherd
Fri Mar 12, 2021 8:42 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Pat Tokin
Replies: 3
Views: 1844

Re: Pat Tokin

It's Tonkin. And it was his funeral today.
by Goatherd
Fri Mar 12, 2021 6:13 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Nell Todd painting for sale
Replies: 17
Views: 6373

Re: Nell Todd painting for sale

That's interesting. I'd heard about the Jacqueline du Pré connection and always wondered how that started. Nell Todd never taught me; she was always the rather mysterious 'old' lady in the studio next to Mr. Lane.
by Goatherd
Fri Feb 05, 2021 9:47 pm
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Britt or European
Replies: 23
Views: 6353

Re: Britt or European

From Christ's Hospital G.A.T. Allan Revised by J.E. Morpurgo (p19) ....."The names of many of those individual benefactors who, in its first two centuries, followed the example of Crown and City, are recorded only in Christ's Hospital's archives and in its more detailed histories but one name, ...
by Goatherd
Thu Feb 04, 2021 9:48 am
Forum: General Chat - Non CH
Topic: Britt or European
Replies: 23
Views: 6353

Re: Britt or European

I may well be wrong, but I'm sure I remember reading that the Erasmus after whom the forms were named was a wealthy London benefactor, not the 'Scholar of Rotterdam'.
by Goatherd
Fri Jan 15, 2021 10:01 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Covid 19 Hardship Fund
Replies: 44
Views: 64347

Re: Covid 19 Hardship Fund

There's nothing 'special' about them. It's just that they are the ones concerned here because it's a Christ's Hospital forum.
by Goatherd
Tue Oct 20, 2020 7:25 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Roger Allam in Radio Times
Replies: 62
Views: 30850

Re: Roger Allam in Radio Times

I was just about to say much the same thing!
by Goatherd
Thu Aug 27, 2020 4:29 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: The Housey Hotspots, etc
Replies: 13
Views: 11879

Re: The Housey Hotspots, etc

I think Willie Watson played the trumpet.
by Goatherd
Thu Aug 20, 2020 7:47 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: What Doesn't Happen At CH These Days?
Replies: 118
Views: 51364

Re: What Doesn't Happen At CH These Days?

Don't worry. As I said, it was the Daily Mail!
by Goatherd
Thu Aug 20, 2020 7:28 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: What Doesn't Happen At CH These Days?
Replies: 118
Views: 51364

Re: What Doesn't Happen At CH These Days?

My recollection was 6:55, which seemed very early then but (like you) now seems obscenely late. [/quote] Interesting! My experience of people of my age (65+) who get up at some unearthly hour (any time before 0830 in my opinion) then, after lunch, have a 'nap'. Anything up to 2 hours. Then, around 9...
by Goatherd
Thu Aug 20, 2020 7:16 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Morton Peto
Replies: 9
Views: 4023

Re: Morton Peto

Nick was younger than me, but I remember him. In the obituary it said that he swore a lot. When I first arrived at CH, I was horrified (?scared) by the language. But I adapted! And I have to admit that I too 'swear a lot'. Am I alone?
by Goatherd
Fri May 08, 2020 7:07 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: R Rae
Replies: 23
Views: 10312

Re: R Rae

He was Housemaster of Lamb B when I was there in the late 60's.
by Goatherd
Sun May 03, 2020 6:33 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: RIP Graham Enderby 62-71
Replies: 5
Views: 3576

Re: RIP Graham Enderby 62-71

99% sure that Graham was in Peele A.
by Goatherd
Sun Apr 05, 2020 6:58 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: I.A.R. Christie, Lamb A 1956-63
Replies: 29
Views: 11125

Re: I.A.R. Christie, Lamb A 1956-63

Does anyone remember the christian names (or even initials) of the Steggles twins?