Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Apparently the way around it is that a change of address is free and you get to send a new photo, hence if your house suddenly acquires a new name you can get the updated licence for 10 years, or move to aq mates house for a week then move back

I did get a bit irate on my deps when I walked back into my study at the front what would have been the day room in LHA to find someone creating a joint in full view of the window which looked onto the masters path. I can't rmemebr if it was just before or after the big scandal just that it was a br...

Well he taught with Kirby for a bit and I know a few of you lot remember him teaching. I'm thinking just pre ww2

There is Reading BlueCoat school who have about 2 coats that the senior boy gets to wear for their special occasions. One of those is a yearly service at St Mary's church in Reading that I can see from my office Window. When I see the head boy standing in the doorway in a mid calf length housey coat...

Some of the older people on here may be able to add flesh to a family story My great grandad was science master (and muscician) at CH in the early part of last century (I don't know the years but I have a picture of him by the lead water tank outside a very new looking new science school). He lived ...

Silchester / Dorchester on thames is good. Dorchester basically became local centre after christianity came in. Taking over from Silchester which is thought to have ended up deserted due to die hard roman traditionalists living there until they died away to a hamlet while the go ahead people moved t...

More off topic. After returning to the UK from N.Africa following malaria my grandad drove transporters around sussex collecting downed planes. the family funny story was that somewhen during the war he was crossing newbridge between ch/5 oaks road and broadbridge heath when the stub of a wing rippe...

I was at CH 81-9 and helped as an exams nursemaid in 82-4, if i remember correctly the way it was explained then (when exams covered lunchtime Monday to lunchtime Wed and were 2 english, 2 maths, aptitude, interview with housemaster plus special exams for those talented in french or music) was that ...

Leigh Hunt A & B to prep block Maine B to LHA Remember taking a smoke sensor off the day room (bottom dorm) ceiling with a rugby ball and setting it off once. Used to get 3 fire engines out 2 from Horsham and the Simon Snorkel from I think Crawley. When the girls first started coincided with the...

I was on zero fee (2 families living off 80 acres of arable near ch with 8 children between them meant very little disposable income) I heard about ch through Mrs Sillett who was my Primary school dep head, otherwise I wuld have ended up at the weald in Billingshurst or Tambridge in Horsham. While I...

Surely as these are deps the disparate standard of the refurbs are irrelevant as they will be in the grecians houses ?

There was also thge abortive attempt at a private phone system inside the school. You could have a phone with a 3 digit number in your study for I think £5 a term, it only rang internally to other such phones, I believe O'Meara had something to do with it. Alas standard very late Saturday night tri...

Ian Sutherland

There was another phone box between Grimshaws garden and the prep block opposite LHA changing room door.

I had some St Mathews days coins along with a £1 pound note and a 2 metal £2 coin all in a lock up box in my Toist on my GE, a housemate stole them along with some other money from other people to go on a bender. He left shotly after and I was given back the same value of money into my house accou...

I love the continuity errors like leaving a room in the prep block and appearing under the Octagon