Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

About a month ago I met a bloke in his 60s who told me he'd attended Beechholme (nr. Banstead, Surrey) as a child after he was taken away from his violent father by the local authorities in Shepherd's Bush. I'd never heard tell of the place (it was demolished in the 1970s) - but he lent me a booklet...

When I was at CH., a mate of mine had a sister at Hertford and I picked up a few details re. the establishment over the years. One of the more memorable things I learned about Hertford CH was the concept of 'K.O.' (i.e. being keen on a fellow female person). How did this work exactly? And what did i...

I have this vague creeping feeling that (once a year?) a group of Latin-studying Hertford girls used to come down to CH Horsham, ostensibly to visit Fishbourne (?) Roman Villa (or was it Bignor - or both?). I think they stayed in the Infirmary, which must've been pretty weird. Has anyone here got me...

Quite out of the blue, I found myself thinking about the perils of school haircuts and about famed barber Peg-Leg whose job it was to inflict them on easily-traumatised pupils. I ended up wondering what the score was with girl-haircuts etc. and also about who Peg-Leg's predecessors and sucessors wer...

Just discovered this truly appalling and disturbing record of Penguin-bashing on the Internet.

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I'm guessing JR must have found wallybonkers/collyboshers invaluable whilst interrogating suspects during his time in the force. ("Weapon? What weapon? I've only got a hanky with me.") I remember once attempting to make a giant wallybonker out of a bedsheet in order to assault a particular...

We called her Spook, a term not used down under, and then a couple of Londoners moved in next door, laughed uproariously and dobbed us in to the rest of the town. Caroline I'm so severely retarded, I don't even know what dobbed us in means. I also don't understand the use of the word 'spook' here. ...

If I were a black person living in Britain, I'd name my kids 'Nignog' and 'Coon' so that all those agonisingly-politically-correct schoolteachers etc. would have no choice but to call 'em Nigger and Coon in front of all the other kids (whilst at the same time lecturing all and sundry to the effect t...

When I was at CH, there were comparatively few black or mixed-race kids there by today's standards. Two facts stick in the memory: (1) Lads like Gerard Hall and Alan Maxwell were very popular, partly because they were black. Some houses had no black kids in them at all, so being black had rarity sta...

FACT: Schoolkids, like squaddies, are almost unstoppably politically incorrect - and they'll go on being racist, sexist etc. forever, most likely, regardless of how vigorously they're lectured on the evils of non-PCness. But lookie here: do kids at CH still call their tight-fisted fellow-pupils 'Jew...

SO THEN: The message seems to be that if you've got an outie, your parents were callous divs who couldn't be bothered about their newborn baby's welfare - but that you CAN get your outie converted to an innie. (I assume you'd have to pay, though, unless you can convince the National Health Service t...

Does anyone here know why it is that some folks have 'innie' navels and others have 'outies'? Is it pot luck as to how your tissue settles down after your placenta has been cut? Or are outies caused by crap midwives and rubbish doctors botching their task somehow? It's time I knew the truth. (And I ...

Excuse me.

What planet are you from exactly?

Whose lessons set the boredom benchmark, in your own opinions? For me, time used to stand still in the forge with Keith Stratton. Maybe if we'd been allowed to chase each other round the room with red-hot iron bars, it might've been a bit more bearable. But no - we had to make toasting forks and hac...

I remember them milk-churns like it was yesterday. They'd be brought up from Home Farm on a flatbed truck before morning break and dumped by a table outside the brew room (on which people would've placed mugs, jugs etc. for filling). Then a big ape like me who was physically capable of lifting a ful...