Sixteen years and four months later, I'm reviving this thread because it never had a fair crack of the whip in the first instance.
Seconds out, Round 2.
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- Thu Feb 17, 2022 4:42 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Puke Fight!
- Replies: 60
- Views: 485474
- Mon Feb 26, 2018 9:22 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: CH and flu
- Replies: 33
- Views: 22486
Re: CH and flu
The 1957 flu epidemic: Coleridge A and the band.
- Sun Sep 27, 2015 5:17 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Who Was The Old Blue in Frankie Goes To Hollywood?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3455
Who Was The Old Blue in Frankie Goes To Hollywood?
I remember years ago (1980s/1990s) reading an interview in a provincial newspaper with a vocalist who'd been appointed replacement vocalist in Frankie Goes To Hollywood during their last days. It said he was an ex-pupil of Christ's Hospital. Glancing at the Wikipedia entry for Frankie Goes To Hollyw...
- Sat May 21, 2011 1:23 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Old Blues on You Tube...
- Replies: 34
- Views: 14887
Re: Who is the Barnes block named after?
Barnes, for one, is named after an early Benefactor, whose portrait used to hang at the East end of the Dining Hall --- he has now been "Relegated" to the Counting House ! Never heard that one before, Neill. I've always understood it was named after the industrious Cambridge scholar Joshu...
- Wed May 04, 2011 5:30 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Your nickname
- Replies: 136
- Views: 69728
Re: Your nickname
I think that almost anyone who came into contact with Uncle (Kirby) was christened with a nickname by him. I am surprised that this has not been mentioned, maybe he gave up after I left. The (I hope) immortal Chips Ryder also used to give nicknames to most of the boys in his class. I remember that ...
- Wed May 04, 2011 2:53 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH on Google Street View
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7271
Re: CH Horsham on Google Street View
Interesting.
Meanwhile on Two Mile Ash and at Donkey Bridge, it appears to be autumn.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Meanwhile on Two Mile Ash and at Donkey Bridge, it appears to be autumn.
Curiouser and curiouser.
- Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:35 pm
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: What Funerary Arrangements Would You Want?
- Replies: 73
- Views: 17409
Re: What Funerary Arrangements Would You Want?
NEILL THE NOTORIOUS wrote:Dusted down ang polished for the occasion, it was the only vehicle used, in the Village, for such an event !
What's more, he directs hit movies such as Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as well as polishing funeral biers. A very talented man indeed.
- Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:22 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Old Blues Day 2011
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5600
Re: Old Bloes Day 2011
I don't get it.
What are Bloes?
Is this some sort of ultra-witty play-on-words that's going right over my head?
Or is it an in-joke that the likes of me simply doesn't get?
Or did you mean to write "Old Blokes' Day 2011"?
I'm confused.
Whatever it is, am I invited?
What are Bloes?
Is this some sort of ultra-witty play-on-words that's going right over my head?
Or is it an in-joke that the likes of me simply doesn't get?
Or did you mean to write "Old Blokes' Day 2011"?
I'm confused.
Whatever it is, am I invited?
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: HITLER YOUTH AT HOUSIE
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8175
Re: HITLER YOUTH AT HOUSIE
I have a very clear memory of being told by my housemaster, Mr TE Archbold (Archie), in the early 1950s that at least one Hitler Youth had been at Housie just before the war. I'd always understood that the Hitler Youth guy returned to Horsham after the war and actually became a member of the ancill...
- Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:52 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Should Christ's Hospital Stop Being a Faith School?
- Replies: 135
- Views: 38882
Re: Should Christ’s Hospital Stop Being a Faith School?
Compulsory Chapel ended a long time ago (except for some particular commitments in termtime) and things are very different for the kids at CH now. Gorblimey, fan me wiv a cold kipper guvna. No compulsory chapel services? Not even for the under-15s? Since when? And do the choir and clergy play to an...
- Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:12 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Was CH Horsham Designed to Be Gay?
- Replies: 157
- Views: 36068
Re: Was CH Horsham Designed to Be Gay?
So, do kids still get punished for being gay at CH? If not, does that mean that it's condoned/tolerated - or do gay pupils get given a stiff talking-to, along the lines of Save that kind of thing for after you've left school ? And are kids who were actually caned for being gay in past years allowed ...
- Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:56 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Collyboshers and Wallybonkers
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2881
Collyboshers and Wallybonkers
When I was a junior, we all knew how to make a near-lethal weapon by simply folding a pocket-handkerchief in a certain way and then folding it in two. Depending on which house you were in, it was called either a wallybonker or a collybosher. Being whacked over the head with one was not unlike the ex...
- Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:01 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Seriously Non-PC Terminology at CH
- Replies: 214
- Views: 39967
- Fri May 19, 2006 10:46 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Would Your Schoolmates Still Recognise You?
- Replies: 162
- Views: 39043
I'm still not quite persuaded. Have a close look at this photo of Wurzel Tony Baylis taken some years ago. Shave off the moustache, add on a few years......(Mind you, it's worth remembering that RR was and still is a musician from Somerset, so maybe they're one and the same.) http://i24.photobucket....
- Thu May 18, 2006 10:32 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Would Your Schoolmates Still Recognise You?
- Replies: 162
- Views: 39043