Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

[quote="Straz"] I had no idea that the Rev Atkinson was such an ogre. He always struck me as rather ineffectual. Clearly I was totally mistaken. What a sad end to your days at CH... Not an obvious target on the teen Dartboard of Angst, the Reverend did indeed have a spikiness, a symptom pe...

More slapped than tickled myself while at CH .... brothers and sisters, I have this tit-for-tat anecdote for your perusal. IMHO the responsibility of maintaining the status quo while resisting the temptation to transgress into the indulgence of personal pettiness is perhaps, whether we like it or no...

Hello. Allright, let's power up the Tardis and set the controls for the heart of the '70s one last time. Hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. I spent my three years in Hunt B skating on thin ice, two of those in a running battle with Housemaster Killer Fry who was my Dad's to...

A thousand curses on the CH Axis of Evil which, to an untamed 11 year-old heathen on an I.L.E.A. Scholarship, didn't stop at my Dad, Killer Fry and, of course, Dr Newsome. It took me years to figure out that the best of the CH teachers were doing their best to keep me on the straight and narrow. Not...

Buongiorno amici, I suppose it's natural that the follow-ups to my tale from deepest, darkest 1971 have focussed on the crime & punishment aspect though at the time it was taken in the spirit of the times i. e. instant justice, forget it and soldier on. DHN was an enigmatic sort sure enough and ...

Hello. Glad to have the opportunity to dig up from the bowels of memory this personal anecdote which I'd like to share with you. Michaelmas term, many moons ago.... I was bathing in the light of Bomber (Christopher) Nicholson's 3A, God bless him. And God bless Mrs (Olive) Peto - I'd won the Second F...