Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

1) Incandescent light-bulbs are an extraordinarily inefficient way to heat anything. You might as well say that your satellite receiver on stand-by is helping to heat the room (it is; it's also helping to heat the LNB on the roof). 2) As regards SAD, you can get (with some difficulty) low-energy bul...

The general theme of this article is to be found in a book by Christopher Booker and someone else whose name I forget (perhaps Mr Carter), and regurgitated in the Telegraph by Mr Booker from time to time (most recently on Monday). I don't know whether it's true, but Mr Booker is quite generally not ...

It's funny to see you all discussing the intricacies of your uniform. But where are your hats?

And the girls I had, the year before, the first thing they did when they got into my room for tea, was let their hair down, apparently forbidden in public.

Perhaps someone who knows Cambridge can tell me where this was taken, becasue I have a feeling we were somewhere we should not have been. Also does anyone remember these two guys, who must have left in 1965/6 or thereabouts The pic is taken by the fountain in Trinity Great Court. I think you were a...

I knew Mike Smith very well. He was Senior Grecian 1963/64 (the year after I left), and I took over his room in a house-share in Cambridge with two other OBs in 1968. I think he lectures in history somewhere, but I don't know where. I don't think Mike Hiley was an OB. He must have been a friend of M...

(For the benefit of the ladies and youngsters a beating of between 4 and 8 strokes was carried out with a hard slipper or a long cane on underpant covered buttocks with the skin well stretched. This is the first I have ever heard of this. I was never beaten, but of those I knew who were, they never...

It was Michael Cherniavsky before Ron Lorimer, and for a year, the Observer Mace was ceremonially marched in ahead of the chairman and speakers.

You know, the more I hear about Hertford in the 50s/60s, the more I say to myself: God's boots, how could they put up with it? Horsham was a holiday camp by comparison.

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A going-away-to-school present. It cost 30 shillings, equivalent to a whole term's pocket money.

Hey, since I was at Hertford from 63 to 70, I must have been in your '64 group .... tee hee ! I remember the punting, but not for the life of me much else - although I do remember that our undergrad ( not necessarily you, Michael) would not let us have a go with the punt - he thought that we might ...

Vonny wrote:I remember going. I've got some photos of the day somewhere.

Heavens, was Stiff still alive in the 1980s? Did the custom continue until Hertford was abandoned?

even pop music was banned at CH It was indeed, pop and "rock and roll" [sic]. Though of course there was always Radio Luxembourg to listen to under the sheets -- don't we all remember Horace Bachelor (K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M)? But what David says reinforces a point I made somewhere else: it depen...

Mr Stiff was an OB who was something in the City. In the 60s he had the idea of taking Hertford juniors on outings to Cambridge, and getting OB undergraduates who could stand the embarrassment of being surrounded by 12-year-old girls to do Cambridgey things with them, like punting on the Cam and tea...

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I'm told Mr Stiff's Cambridge outings are still remembered. Anyway, I was one of the outers -- 1964 and 1965. Excruciatingly embarrassing! Mind you, to be surrounded by little girls then was merely comical.

Is there anyone out there who was on my punt? I was the one from Emmanuel College.

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