Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Have you seen the article in the Telegraph today (Sept 24th) which gives a full page to CH entitled "What would the Victorians say" I think the writer is trying to be provocative but doesn't seem to have done his homework. He seems to think of CH as a Victorian foundation. One quote is &qu...

I seem to remember on hot summer mornings, we all had to line up in the junior dorm for a 30 second cold-bath each - strictly controlled by house monitors. No place for modesty there ! What's this about cold baths on hot summer mornings. We had to queue up for them every morning except Sunday. I th...

Do they still have PT every weekday morning? In the 40s & 50s we had it on the asphalt in winter and on grass in front of the houses in summer. It was lead by a monitor and followed exercises dreamt up by J.H.Edwards. It was quite wearing and it was rush to get back to your house change into gam...

David, Mr Cherniavsky (?sp) required that every pupil in his classes complete the "Thunderer"crossword by 9 am or else. Since it was very Classics based, he never had an exam failure (including the fact that everyone did S level) in the 13 years up to when I left. (He wrote the crossword!...