Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Ironically it's possibly a comedian, Mark Thomas, who is the Old Blue most connected with politics. He was in the year above me, but I have no recollections of him being political at school. If I had to sum up the political bias inherent in the school then I would definitely say left leaning, perhap...

I said previously that I was pretty sure that somebody had listed on eBay the Boys Own article mention in the opening post, well it seems that somebody has just listed a similar one: The Boy's Own Paper - Famous Runs At Famous Schools - 1908 Article extends just over two pages and includes reference...

My fees were paid for by a firm of Solicitors in Sheffield, whose founder set up a fund to pay for one kid from the city to be at CH in perpetuity (I must have been a smart 10 year-old to win the scholarship, I wish I could say the same for me as an adult). As I left another boy from Sheffield start...

michael scuffil wrote:I once made a rough calculation that over a 7-year school career, someone in Peele A would have walked about 8,500 kilometres more than someone in ColB.

Probably why I'm quite skinny.

It was the trek back from Horsham that was the killer, get to the school gate and still only half way there.

The Ripping Yarns series used the boys magazines from the early 1900's as the inspiration for the stories. The Alexander Armstrong programme made this quite clear.

I'm a bit puzzled why you think the 1902 publication date needs mentioning.

I've just now watched that programme on iPlayer too, and was going to start a thread about the same subject. The only reference I can find online is here: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL19670048M/My_old_school_Christ's_hospital I do have a vague recollection of seeing something on eBay though. Exce...

I'm pretty sure that I watched The War Game as a school film during my time at CH. If it wasn't that, then it was Threads , but since that's set in my home city I would have remembered that. Edit: Just checked and Threads was made two years after I left, so I definitely watched The War Game at CH. N...

Two films at Horsham I remember being shown were ones that were barred from general release "Culloden" 1964 and the TV documentary "War Game" 1965. They were only shown at CH because it came under the same category a "Private Club". War Game was deemed too shocking for...

First post. I remember being in the production of Cain, particularly the tower of Babel bit, and the rubbish record by Visitor 2035 ... but I mainly avoided school productions. I would go and watch absolutely every professional production at the theatre, partly because I was in love with a master's ...