Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I arrived 364 days before you to what appeared to be (and turned out to be) hell. Apart from a few formative years I had lived in a tiny village many miles from nowhere. The schol had I think 7 pupils including me, all in one class, with a teacher who, in retrospect, should have been retired a decad...

Lengths of time without offending (if indeed there wasn’t any offending) happen for reasons such as your access to victims or habitual means of offending becoming blocked or restricted, being in a new relationship or some other life/family event that gives you a new perspective (or leaves you with ...

Certainly we preferred the assistant for Matrons inspections. Remember those? Think they were twice weekly; check you were clean and your feet for varuccas, hair for nits etc. As squits we spent the 1st half term stressed about these inspections as 3rd formers convinced us that every so often there...

I may have attended CH more than 10 years before Amelia, but I certainly recall experiencing homesickness, anxiety and rejection in my first couple of years at the school. To survive these feelings, you have to dig deep and learn how to stand on your own two feet, while helping others who are strug...

As for languages, CH struggled to teach languages, French, Latin and German O-levels obtained, not fluency, but at GE my mother moved to Spain then Portugal where I learned both languages, on my own for Portuguese and with one lesson a week at CH for Spanish from a nice chap who taught a motley cre...

Yesterday I turned 80. The day before, Mick Jagger (and Katherine's brother P Hills), turned 80. In the meantime I don't really have any comment to make about my own life, except perhaps the words of the Grateful Dead: "What a long strange trip it's been." So I beat you by a month -when o...

found by chance, CH from the air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RjqUnf1NmY

copied from another thread Christ's Hospital - Schools Class locomotive Post by Great Plum » Fri May 12, 2006 12:30 pm I found out recently that there was a steam locomotive called Christ's Hospital that was one of the 'Schools' Class of locos - so called as they were named after famous public schoo...

You need to show you have the right to automatically enter the country otherwise you need to answer a lot of questions about visas, lengths of stay, etc. Even if you have been through immigration you can be accosted with mal intent. Having come through immigration at Stanstead using a British passp...

Good or bad? I'm far from an expert, but I'd say a bit of both since AI is just a tool and so any question of good/bad depends on the motivations and intentions of the user. I can think of a number of fields where it could have a massive positive impact,......................... I think we're close...

What exactly should people do with their ill-gotten wealth if giving it to charity simply tars that charity with the same brush as them? For example, how big a beneficiary of slavery was the Church of England or Salvation Army or any other well respected pillar of our society? One example is the em...

Unfortunately I have found that my experiences at CH have affected me in lots of complex ways, some of which I am only beginning to discover many decades on. The education I received and the resilience I developed came at a cost. In my mid-forties, a lot of this trauma has resurfaced – I'd been kee...

I had the same thought but when I mentioned it to my son, he advised me not to go that route as it would be badly interpreted. You have said it much more eloquently than I would have. I also asked him how far back it was reasonable to go to apologise and rectify the errors of our ancestors. It seem...

rockfreak wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 8:02 pm Come on guys! Has no-one seen the Guardian's exposure of CH benefitting from slavery? Connections with Edward Colston? Dear oh dear! Are we all Daily Mail readers? Doesn't anyone read a proper newspaper?

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I remember it all too well. We had had previous contact both with Queen Elizabeth their mother in 1943 and with the two princesses before the marriage in 1948. I was sent to stay with my godmother who was close to the then princesses but was not included in the Westminster festivities. I am not sure...