Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

There is a memorial on the Dining Hall wall to Leslie D Foxton and one of the Urquhart-Pullen brothers. Leslie, as I said in an earlier 'post', was killed in the Korean War.

Yes, we were at Housie at the same time. I looked you up in the Blue "Alphabetical List" for 1941. I was in Prep B then. as far asred bathers were concerned the requirement was that one had to swim one length by a recognised stroke. I learnt to swim when I was in Prep in the summer of 1941...

Reply to Brian Haynes. John Greenly Steel is the name Peele A 35 the number. I found your name in the 1941 Roll and remember you briefly when I first went up from the Prep. As I recall you had an interst in designing and building radio receivers and maybe transmitters making use of the very convieni...

I found it a breath of fresh air and acted as a long needed antidote to the "Christ's Hospital book" which appeared in 1953. I have just had a card from Norman who celebrated his 8th birthday on the 15th of this month. He had a party which included another OB who, as he puts it "...ha...

I left in the Summer of 47 and managed to get deferred so that I could study engineering. I then did a student apprenticeship in the aircraft industry and continued to be deferred because my company (Rotax) was supplying electrical equipment to the RAF for the V bombers - Valiant, Victor and Vulcan....

I am sorry to hear of the death of JHE. He was the master who coached the swimming team (XVI) while I was at CH and as Jan de Walden said, a kindly man. See my post on the subject of the swimming pool. And no, he was not ACW Edwards who taught me English and History in 1942. His portrait appears in ...

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The following might be of interest. Not long after I learnt to swim and qualified for my red bather I was spotted in an inter-house competition going fairly quickly doing a hopelessly bad version of front crawl. As a result I was invited to join the school swimming colts which gave me plenty of time...