Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

fun pjs? Oxymoron.

englishangel wrote: pupils wear their own shoes so not quite the conformity here.

Since when?

The picture is called "London Visitors". It is used for the front jacket illustration of a book called "London" by an American called John Russell (pub. 1994).

There was a hall trade in Thornton B called "Door". It went to two quite senior people and involved closing the door between the Hall and the kitchens during grace, and making sure no one barged in from the kitchen. Thornton A (I think, or it may have been Mid A) had a similar trade. They ...

Foureyes wrote:My recollection is that Kirby had two dogs. One was definitely called Chlorine, but I thought that the other was called Hebburn, or a very similar sounding name. He used to cycle with one on his shoulders.
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This must have been before my time. I only remember Chlorine, and then Boodle.

I was always under the impression that all of Kirby's dogs were called "Boodle". Pop Massen had a large black Labrador that wandered around aimlessly and I seem to remember another dog down the Middleton end of the Avenue. Boodle was Chlorine's successor. He (I think Boodle was a he) was ...

How about some memories of CH dogs? I propose to start with Chlorine, who must be the only dog to get a public obit at school assembly. CMESeaman regretted "the passing of that best of all worst dogs" (see below). Chlorine was one of a litter whose other members were named Bromine, Iodine ...

Mothercare briefly sold something called a "Baby Mincer".

blondie95 wrote:Did you know that M&S do pyjama bottoms in different leg lengths

This conjures up a curious image: are blondie95's legs different lengths?

No one has mentioned Marat/Sade or whatever its full title was. It features a very young and pretty Glenda Jackson as a narcoleptic playing Charlotte Corday.

And Closely Observed Trains: much better than its title.

Futtock's End is a good short.

postwarblue wrote:My favourites? Gad Malins, David Jesson-Dibley; big debts to Bill Armistead, Gordon Van Praagh and Pongo Littlefield.

I think Littlefield would be amazed to find himself in this rarefied company. (And probably vice versa). Actually, this is the first good word I've ever heard about the man.

Trivial point: did anyone apart from me think that sleepy Tom Keeley spoke like DJ John Peel? No? Just me then...again. THK was a Brummy and John Peel was a Scouser and I've heard others say the accents sound similar but to me there seem to be quite marked differences. THK's accent made him a figur...

Ron Lorimer - sorry people but I can't get excited about him. He didn't like non-conformists. I gather Lorimer was a pillar of the establishment in his later years, but when he first arrived he was a non-conformist himself. He was believed to be the first teacher to sit down at lunch on the dais wi...

Corks certainly didn't leave before Dec 55. He was there the whole of my first year 55/56, and I think the second as well. And he didn't leave hastily. His successor Jack Rust was not popular at first. (Corks was a hard act to follow.) A famous note was found in the choir room: Wanted, rust remover,...

Does anyone have any pix of

1. Grecians at Hertford Speech Day 1963?
2. Horsham Festival 1963, pageant and fete?