Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Thank you Charles. A really interesting article with superb illustrations, which I have read with great enjoyment. In my time (1948-55) we used the Tube to march to Dining Hall when it was raining, with one of the side-rooms for storing trunks, and (I think) a drying room for wet sports clothes - an...

As a matter of curiosity, what do today's pupils do, in this era of mobile phones, smart phones, skype, emails, etc, etc? Or has the weekly written missive to one's parents (i.e.,'letter writing') been consigned to history?
David

I agree (as usual) with John Hopgood: " I seem to remember being chucked out of the house from 2.30 to about 4.00pm on a Sunday afternoon and then doing letter writing until going up to Dining Hall for tea. " That was how it was also in Lamb B 1949-55. If I remember correctly one had to ha...

If you choose to re-post something from a third party then you are taking responsibility for it.
DM

I am sure that sentinenej thinks that he is very amusing, but having been in the Army for 32 years the vast majority of those remarks just do not ring true. For a start the heading is 'military;' which implies Army, so all those referring to ships, submarines, flying, etc can be disregarded. Secondl...

I have now completed my research into the Flying Bomb and sent copies to the Museum and the Library to whom any further queries should be addressed. However, I would like to thank all those Old Blues who helped me with memories and information. I have now moved on.
David

In the early 1950s there were two sergeants. I can picture them both, but am somewhat hazy on the details of their duties. Sergeant Fielder was a somewhat taciturn character who, with his wife, ran the post office and also acted as a sort-of major domo for the Head Master on ceremonial occasions. He...

I note that rockfreak seems to be under the impression that he speaks for England - note his use of 'our' and 'we.' Well, he doesn't. He is entitled to his own views, as is any individual in this country that he so often derides, but that does not entitle him to generalise to include the whole natio...

There really seems to be no limit to the subjects that 'rockfreak' dislikes, with England, the English and Christ's Hospital leading the field. Of course, the English have caricatures of foreigners, but so, too, does every nation that I can think of. I worked in Glasgow for three very happy years, b...

Thank you. Yes - it is an excellent article - especially as it says that I am correct! :oops: Curiously, the old lady's diary introduces a new factor, which is damage to the railway station - I have never come across that before. The inescapable fact is that if the V-1 had landed 200 yards short of ...

I am not clear what point Hibsman is trying to make, as all that appears on my screen is a repetition of earlier posts by other contributors, without any additional and original comment by Hibsman himself. Did he press a key too soon - as we all have done from time-to-time?
David

"My local council is abandoning a lot of recycling but when asked, refused to give us any information as to what is no longer being recycled. Obviously we, those who pay their wages, are incompetent or two stupid to be given such information" Do you not have a local councillor and/or MP w...

A huge subject concerns the Dalits (Untouchables) in Indian culture!!! Just as bad today as it was a hundred, perhaps even a thousand years ago.
David

There are all sorts of prejudices, even within apparently cohesive communities. I was once asked by a Jewish friend to write a biography of a person well-known in his community. I did a lot of preliminary research, including a very long visit to the man himself, who was very interesting and likeable...

I have a copy of the Kriegstagebuch (war diary) of FlakRegt 155(W), which was the launcher regiment for the V-1. I can assure you that the rogue missiles (known to the Germans as Kreißläufer ) which were launched from the Pas de Calais sites and ended up near Paris, etc, were aimed at London. It is ...