Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

The house system in my time was an absolute lottery - but also a very dangerous one. This is I think one of the main proof points that shows that Poulton et al just weren't in control: Maine was probably the best example at the time of a stern junior house experience (Grimshaw) that turned into a se...

Mid A 15 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 16, 2019 9:46 amThe disgusting female Chaplain that ignored that poor girl is even worse.

Is it now established who this is?

That award is shocking. A much higher sentence is indicated. At least the media have caught up with the chaplaincy issue. So has this mentalist: https://goodnessandharmony.wordpress.com/ I think that the CofE angle to the case is interesting. In my opinion there should also be an achnowledgement by ...

Otter wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2019 7:34 pm Now that I am no longer employed by the Probation Service I can say that sex offenders will not stop until they are in prison, dead or a vegetable.

Well, that’s giving Dobbie some options then.

I wonder if the press will continue to ‘forget’ that he did this as ‘Father’ Gary Dobbie?

rockfreak wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2019 9:39 pm Yes, at my age time telescopes.

To this very day, I am consumed by a passionate indifference. Looking at your viewing profile Cleopatra I think we may have much in common (I too had a cat which I loved dearly). Had you read, as opposed to ‘looked at’ Cleopatra’s profile, you’d have noticed that she last visited the site twelve ye...

jtaylor wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 1:34 pm (Edit:- Just realised I’m still “friends” with him and a number of other CH staff from my time. I plan to leave that as-is I think - see if anyone takes over his account, given there’s still some out there who unbelievably think he’s innocent!)

I see Bob Sillett is still friends with him.

add .... who had the authority and/or power and/or connections to take strong and effective action I think this is sort of the point. In my time, there were Governors in several flavours, same for Almoners. There was an HM and a Senior Management Team. Then there were sundry Corporations who seemed...

DazedandConfused wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 9:09 am Edited with a correction- I believe the Chaplain May have retired after ill health.

Sheila Banyard, who used to compete with Elizabeth Cairncross in the warmth-and-empathy-in-pastoral-care stakes, is still ‘something’ in the Church Of England franchise.

I honestly can’t remember the last time I was asked the question; it’s a bit non-u, surely? Should it arise again, I think I’ll say that I was at the Royal Mathematical School. It sounds like a splendid place; no predatory priests, no rapist history teachers, no eloping musicians, no kinky parties, ...

There should be an independent enquiry. The current HM has chosen to distance the current CH brand from the old one. But according to the Charge I’m carrying the ‘good name of Christ’s Hospital’. For my era there isn’t one. This whole scandal has to be unpicked; the failures in governance and superv...

There was much coverage of Poulton et al at the previous trials. There probably should be now. It's patently clear that the school of today disowns that of yesteryear: From the testimony of this victim and others, it is clear that abuse at Christ Hospitalwas enabled not only by the perpetrators who...

Are you just laying on the stereotypes and trying to get rise out of people, and in effect acting like a mischievous public schoolboy...? :wink: We know it can't be sarcasm, it doesn't do sarcasm: ...sarcasm is one of the stocks in trade people often pick up at boarding school. For many it's a subs...

So here’s my problem: the massive discordance between this post... I'm interested in Avon's attitude because, after all this time, he and I seem to me to be coming from exactly the same place! When I mentioned our "stardust" I was using it in a sardonic way. We don't sprinkle our supposed ...