Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

What I detest and abhor more than anything else is people who only look at the start of my name and not at all of it, Katharine is the spelling closest to the classical Greek, as my Old Blue Dad informed me. Thank God I edited my spelling the other day! :wink: Thank you for that simple courtesy, so...

I'll come in as a female, speaking ONLY for myself, a married woman of age 58. While I accept some of the conventions over initials that existed in the past, I would like an envelope to be addressed to me as either Mrs K M Dobson or as Katharine Dobson. I do NOT like Mrs Katharine Dobson, even less ...

Mid A 15 wrote:You might find replies limited as we did a similar thread recently.
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Thanks for pointing me in that direction. I did a quick trawl when I joined but missed that one. I still like my father's story and hope it was worth posting.

I am a second generation Blue. There is a wonderful family story of the way my father and aunt both got to the school, I hope it is true!! My grandfather was a missionary in the Bahmas during the First World War and soon after that he returned to be a vicar in the East End of London. The children, u...

First, I am 99 percent certain that the place you visited was the Vickers aircraft factory at Weybridge in Surrey. Second, I met Barnes Wallis (when I was young) and also had a lot of dealings with his family when writing a booklet about him for the 2003 RAF Foundationers 50th anniversary. I know o...

Wallis would have been a good one - not only a renowned boffin, but he put a hell of a lot back into C.H. Fulfilled the "Charge", I would say. When I was in the Sixth Form all those doing Maths A level were taken on a visit to where he was working (memory failing as to where it was!). We ...

The only reason you may have told me off was because I always forgot to change from my house shoes into my outdoor shoes for chapel in the morning, apart from that I was nauseatingly well behaved. Can't even remember checking for that, outside chapel it was blazer buttons mainly. Can't think now wh...

Were you not Head Girl? You were there until Christmas of my first year I believe. No, not me, it was Virginia Coles in 8s. I was one of 4 Senior VIth in 6s and we did not have either Head Girl or Deputy (Elizabeth Richards - 7s the other Mathematician) As you well know, Mary, you may remember me b...

<b>Joy Holmes (2's 1943-50, Hertford Staff 1959-66)</b> recently retired after quite a few years as Secretary of the Caledonian Society of Blues. I'm pretty sure that Joy had been in a Junior house before 2's and was a full 10 years at the school from Second Form through to the end of Senior Sixth ...

My English teacher was an OB but I think she was the only one at Hertford when I was there. Coming in for my first post, had Joy Holmes left before you came? She taught Maths. She had been 10 years at the school, Head Girl in her time. I only had her in the Sixth Form soon after I left she upped st...