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The other day my wife created a tasty dish of local pork sausages, mash, cabbage and gravy. While I was enjoying this delicious and hearty feast, I cast my mind back 50 years or so to the type of sausages we were served at CH in the early 1970s. I may be wrong, but I'm pretty certain that they were ...

I was extremely sad to read in the Autumn 2022 edition of the "Old Blue" that Paul Koronka (Pe A 1966-71) had died earlier this year. Paul was a contemporary and great friend of my late brother, Greg Strange (Mid A 1964-71). Their friendship continued in the early 1970s after they left CH,...

It's official. Taio Cruz did not, repeat NOT, attend Christ's Hospital. I have had this fact confirmed by Floss Buckle, a management assistant on Taio's team. Here is her email, which I received today (7 September 2022). Hi Paul, I was forwarded your message as I’m on Taio’s management team. Confirm...

So is Taio Cruz an Old Blue or not? Judging by the extent of the Talk contributions to Cruz's Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Taio_Cruz), there's ongoing dispute about basic facts - such as Cruz's birth name and birth date - let alone where he was educated, so it seems unlikely t...

A new recent article on the legend from Sussex Live: The prestigious West Sussex boarding school that's educated celebrities such as Taio Cruz and Jason Flemyng https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/sussex-news/christs-hospital-school-celebrities-cruz-7271591 This saga is up there with Elvis being aliv...

Just to re-open this thread a little... I've greatly enjoyed watching "Reinventing the Orchestra with Charles Hazlewood", a six-part TV series, currently showing on Sky Arts (June/July 2022). From Barry White to Scott Walker, via Mozart, Kraftwerk, Bach and Steve Reich, it has been a fasci...

This website includes a video of Adrian's "life celebration" and is asking for people's recollections of him: https://celebrateadrianreith.com/ Many thanks for posting this link. Having known Adrian for a couple of years in Peele A, it was very interesting to hear what he went on to do af...

One for the train buffs among you. Was the Housey Special ever pulled by the "Christ's Hospital" schools class locomotive SR 913 (later BR 30913)? If so, was this in the 1930s or was it later? I also remember seeing the locomotive's nameplate at the CH model railway club during the 1970s. ...

So has anyone got an update on the CH Scout troop?

Hawkwind was known in Mid B as 'baked bean music' due to one fan (David Agnew, I think?) being found blasting it out of his hifi while eating directly from a can of beans. Of such things legends were made... Likewise the loan of records, and studies with record players for those less fortunate, cre...

I'm not sure if anyone remembers 'Cain!' -- it was a project at CH back in the 70s led by John Mason (prog rocker and, I think, teacher at some point) in which much of the school performed a sprawling prog rock epic about Cain. by ColA25 » Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:42 pm There was a John Mason on the staf...

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I'm very sad to hear this news. Viscount Corvedale was an assistant house master in Peele A when I was there in the early 1970s. I liked him, always found him to be affable, and he treated us like adults. He also never "lorded" it. Although he had a title, he wished everyone at CH to treat...

Fossilised fish hooks! Extraordinary behaviour! Like Phil Underwood, I don't recall inter-house dorm raids going on in the early 70s. However, I do recall the odd dorm raid going on between the two dorms in LHA, circa 69/70. And what about Mr Torkington? Is it possible he had a bet on with another m...

Thanks for the musical suggestions David. I'll try a few of them. Yes, I know that we were very lucky at CH in the 1970s to have so much music available to listen to, and no one banning any of it. And - subjective this - I think the late 60s and 70s was a time of great and long-lasting albums, rathe...