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by Straz
Fri Nov 03, 2023 2:48 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Wiki is wrong! Launchbury
Replies: 8
Views: 23233

Re: Wiki is wrong! Launchbury

Glad that the Wikipedia error seems to have been sorted.
For a moment there I thought we were going to be entering Taio Cruz territory... :wink:

https://www.chforum.info/php/viewtopic.php?t=4150
by Straz
Thu Oct 12, 2023 12:03 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Death of Ben Sweeny alias Spoonbill
Replies: 8
Views: 15118

Re: Death of Ben Sweeny alias Spoonbill

I'm deeply sad to hear this news Rex.
My condolences to you all.
May Ben rest in peace.
by Straz
Tue Oct 10, 2023 9:31 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Re: Housey special...
Replies: 7
Views: 5477

Re: Housey special...

Fascinating information Brian.
Many, many thanks for all your efforts on this one.
I greatly appreciate it.
by Straz
Wed Sep 13, 2023 9:23 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Photographs that shaped the urban landscape
Replies: 5
Views: 15145

Re: Photographs that shaped the urban landscape

Some of the pics are by Tony Ray-Jones who was contemporary with me in Col B in the 1950s. He went on to be a renowned social documentary photographer and died tragically young. Fascinating bit of info. You might imagine then that Old Blue Tony Ray-Jones took the photo of the CH band in the Quad, w...
by Straz
Sat Aug 26, 2023 1:02 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years
Replies: 21
Views: 102472

Re: Amelia White (in the Daily Mail) deplores her CH years

A sad and poignant article, that many Old Blues will empathise with. I may have attended CH more than 10 years before Amelia, but I certainly recall experiencing homesickness, anxiety and rejection in my first couple of years at the school. To survive these feelings, you have to dig deep and learn h...
by Straz
Mon Jul 17, 2023 2:58 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Re: James Pitcher, BaA, PeA 68-75, RIP
Replies: 4
Views: 2727

Re: James Pitcher, BaA, PeA 68-75, RIP

Martin Chuzzletits wrote: Thu Jul 13, 2023 12:01 pm A rather aristocratic-looking guy with curly fair hair?
That's the chap...
by Straz
Tue Jul 04, 2023 11:41 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Tony Barrett RIP
Replies: 3
Views: 2007

Re: Tony Barrett RIP

Many thanks Jacky for your detailed and informative update on Tony's life after CH.
It was fascinating to read how Tony got on in the world, and, by the sound of it, how he continued to embrace CH's ethos by helping others.
My condolences to you and all the family.
Thanks again.
by Straz
Sat Jul 01, 2023 11:29 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Re: James Pitcher, BaA, PeA 68-75, RIP
Replies: 4
Views: 2727

Re: James Pitcher, BaA, PeA 68-75, RIP

Very sad to read in the latest CHOBA newsletter that James Pitcher, BaA, PeA, 69-75, has died. James was one of my contemporaries in Peele A. I didn't know him that well, but I do recall that he had a fine sense of humour, had a good moral compass and was gifted at rugby. I have no idea what James d...
by Straz
Sat Jun 10, 2023 6:25 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Re: Housey special...
Replies: 7
Views: 5477

Re: Housey special...

Many thanks for the replies.
In time I will post a photo of a Hornby Schools Class model locomotive that has been converted into a "Christ's Hospital". The model loco was given to me as a birthday present.
by Straz
Sat May 06, 2023 10:57 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: CH and slavery
Replies: 15
Views: 44299

Re: CH and slavery

Here's a link to the relevant Guardian article:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... y-revealed
by Straz
Wed Apr 26, 2023 7:31 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Tony Barrett RIP
Replies: 3
Views: 2007

Tony Barrett RIP

Very sad to read in the latest edition of The Old Blue that Tony Barrett (Ma B, Pe A 1966-73) has passed away. Tony - and his Peele A study mate Robert - were very helpful to me during a particularly difficult period, circa 1972, when I was struggling to get my O-Level re-takes. At the time I was to...
by Straz
Wed Apr 05, 2023 10:36 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Pink bands!
Replies: 0
Views: 21555

Pink bands!

I have a very hazy memory that during the 1960s, a team of four boys represented CH in a television quiz. I don't believe it was Top of the Form, but possibly a junior version of University Challenge. This was in the days of black and white TV. My abiding memory is that it was revealed - possibly in...
by Straz
Fri Mar 24, 2023 9:49 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Sausages!
Replies: 8
Views: 7965

Re: Sausages!

I recall the sausages - I suspect boiled rather than grilled (no browning) and nicknamed 'pregnant mice'. They were actually nice, and I agree, unique. The peeled tinned tomatoes that went with it had an even more distastefull alliterative nickname referring to monkeys... It hadn't occurred to me t...
by Straz
Fri Mar 24, 2023 9:45 pm
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Sausages!
Replies: 8
Views: 7965

Re: Sausages!

I enjoyed the sausages in the early 70s. Think they were probably steamed rather than grilled. I did actually like the peeled plum tomatoes and when the rest of the table were rejecting them, someone noticed I was quite happily piling my plate with them; so they started collecting from other tables...
by Straz
Wed Mar 15, 2023 2:19 am
Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
Topic: Sausages!
Replies: 8
Views: 7965

Sausages!

The other day my wife created a tasty dish of local pork sausages, mash, cabbage and gravy. While I was enjoying this delicious and hearty feast, I cast my mind back 50 years or so to the type of sausages we were served at CH in the early 1970s. I may be wrong, but I'm pretty certain that they were ...