Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Any one remember the name of the other tutor (the Morrissey lookalike). Alan Durden. Rather shy, not alltogether comfortable in his role, presumably placed there to learn the ropes under Killer's prodigious wing. I never spotted any Morrissey-style gladioli wilting out of his back pocket, you could...

Well, at the best of times, hair has great talismanic qualities as documented from the Bible onwards - Rev. Rob even took us to Brighton to see the 'Hair' musical around about that time. I think you could dedicate an entire thread to 'Hair at CH in the late 20th Century'. Given the 1970's cultural l...

[quote="Martin Chuzzletits"] Leigh Hunt B, Summer 1973 http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll146/jahsausage/LHB1973.jpg For full photo, click link http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll146/jahsausage/LHB1973.jpg A house photo from back in the days when we "went into flannels" in th...

Disobedience being the Original Virtue....

Question is, is it progress when a cannibal decides to use a fork?

Crikey - listening to you lot anyone'd think that living in a septic tank and eating cold poison for breakfast was almost, albeit Pythonesquely, normal. :lol: We didn't do either. I'm surprised that standards deteriorated so much between 1960 and 1975. Although 'modernization' can bring unintended ...

Crikey - listening to you lot anyone'd think that living in a septic tank and eating cold poison for breakfast was almost, albeit Pythonesquely, normal.

Two minor elaborations of points made above: 1. In the 50s at least, “The Oil” (the HM, HLO Flecker) never used the cane in person, NOR were there any public canings. 2. Rev CAC Hann was presumably an excellent administrator and a scholar, for he left CH to take up the post of Principal of the Ripo...

Newsome's daughter Louise - the historical novelist A L Berridge - writes about her father here: http://the-history-girls.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/living-with-history-by-l-berridge.html And very true it rings, too! Far be it from me to come between people and their treasured illusions but followers o...

To be honest, I didn't understand most of the previous posting, but one bit rang a huge bell ........... 'kleptocracy .......... privatisation of profit, socialisation of debt'! Isn't that what is happening in our society today? It was about elitism, and dodgy geezers in public office. Oh..and King...

R.I.P. mate. While we're looking at the bigger picture - and stepping out of hormonally-hijacked Teen Revisited mode a sec - I suppose the '70s was a hard decade to be a CH Head. One of my less fragrant memories of the time was of the sound of the ordained structure creaking under the strain of a gr...

Always good to see someone thinking out of the box, albeit in an in-the-box kind of way... :D We could, given your soft spot for all things Gruesome, swap Head's. Unless I'm mistaken, you were at CH during Clarence Seaman's '60s time but knew Newsome at Cambridge while I was at CH during Newsome's '...

King and Country? Spot of golf anyone? You are such a melancholy lot. I've read through this thread with some amusement / bemusement with regard to some quaint but what I can't help but feel are slightly distorted views on the 'ethos' of CH. It never has been, any more than the rest of life, the fan...

Hi again. For fun, I've written up the anecdote that started off this thread in a more literary style. Hope some people enjoy it. BUSTER MEETS THE BOGEYMAN Michaelmas term, many moons ago....and Autumn, uncaring of dull distinctions as to Junior and Senior ends, had long since democratically scatter...

As to the Barnes B Captain's uppercut ---- I should beware a similar fate, nowadays ! Since it is now inhabited by Ladies, such an assault would be both painful and embarrassing ! :oops: I hope I am not "Sexist" but I admire Women's Rugby, and I cannot stand Women's Boxing ! ! :shock: Wel...