Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I must admit to being somewhat underwhelmed by the Brierly-Howes pictures, although without seeing the actual thing, it's difficult to be sure. From a distance, they look like photos, and on closer inspection like watercolours -- but what's the advantage of that? I can't see what they've gained in t...

One of us did, yesterday.

Wuppertal wrote:Though it now appears in limited quantities in Aldi Süd in southern Germany (funnily enough not Aldi Nord, in north Germany, nearer to Holland).

Aldi Süd takes in Cologne and Aachen, which are very close to Holland.

There is currently on ebay a CH postcard illustrating the Horsham dining hall, with tablecloths. Does anyone know when these were abolished? Certainly by 1955 (except for Christmas dinner and Christmas tea). I remember Mr A.L. Johnstone (himself a long-serving Hall Warden) once saying: "Yes, an...

I don't quite understand what you think is sad, Kerren. Leaving, or the fact that you cried?

CCF uniforms and especially boots were also the swab's responsibility and boots had to reflect better than a mirror. Brasses had to gleam and blanco on webbing had to be perfect; every Friday. Kit was not in the CCF. In Thornton B, where our housemaster was Major Page, monitors were strictly forbid...

The winter of early 47 was worse, if only because there were constant power cuts (which I can just remember). As for 1963 at CH, it was actually quite fun. It had some very good sides -- no mid-morning PT for a start, and "activities" consisted mostly of sledging in Denne Park. I remember ...

I was never a swab (it was voluntary).

When I was a monitor, I paid my swab 12/6 a term, and 18/- when I had a study. That represents about 10 pounds and 15 pounds in today's money.

Once I had my buttons, I paid it out of my Q-shott, the school's largesse to button grecians.

It occurs to me that they did have a legitimate use too. In Thornton B we stored the house sledges in the loft. I was there from 55 to 63. We used the sledges twice: in my first year (early 56), for about three days, and in my last year (early 63) for a very long time.

Incidentally JR, you dated the original photo "1962 (?)". For the record, it must actually be 1961, because that was when my good friend the late Nick Cox, the tall blonde button grecian next to Tony Hewitt, left. There are various other pointers to a 1961 date, but I won't bore you with t...

Re pancake races, there was a very different one held from about 1959 on Lamb Asphalt (CMES wisely called a staff meeting every Shrove Tuesday at 12.15). The trophy was a pair of antlers called the Colonel Pussfoot-Smythe Trophy. The History Grecians supplied an MC, and the trophy was awarded to whi...

Graham Riches was in Thorn B from about 1952/3 to 1960. He then went to be House Captain of Maine B. He was one of the early VSO volunteers and then went to Emmanuel College Cambridge, where I also was. That was the last I saw of him.

Constant Lambert is quite famous, but I cannot recall ever having heard anything by him. Am I alone?
His son Kit managed The Who.

Spot.

What did the Irishman call his zebra?