Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

In about 1966 the Observer (or maybe the Sunday Times) brought out a full-page story (with photo) with the headline "Confessions of an Oxford Drug Addict". The junkie in question was an OB in JR's house (whom he'll doubtless remember) called A***** M***t. For his pains he was rusticated fr...

J.R. wrote:Coleridge B Deputy Housemaster early 60's

"O-KAY" ????

R.A. Hewitt, who usually finished a sentence, thus !

or if not,then with ALL RIGHT?

(He was also Thornton B junior housemaster, okay? All right?)

Grecians' Path... aka Snobs' Alley. But I imagine it had its origins in the "Grecs' Cloi" in London. That was foe grecians only, and I suppose this was an attempt to continue the exclusivity. It lasted certainly until the mid-60s, and unlike most Button Grecian privileges (bikes in school,...

Ajarn Philip wrote:I was thinking about Bob Sillet - if SliceIt wasn't his nickname, it certainlY should have been!

Smoothy was Peter Brotherton, if I've got the name right. I've seen smooth operators before, but this guy was amazing - he was smooth to EVERYBODY!

except to the nurse he jilted.

Those are all after my time, but here's an earlier lot 50s/early 60s

Phallic
Slim
Baldy
Chaps
Kit
Corks
Bogey
Stine
Pongo
Goat
Boom
Fat Pat
Chinky
Chain
Wind aka Yo
Blotto
Bocker
Fish
Bogbrush
Wop

Drugs weren't really 'fashionable' in my day. Gold Leaf cigarettes and the occasional Worthington 'E' - Yes. JR's day was my day and I think he's quite right. I think the episode I mentioned in the first post on this thread was the first, and probably a one-off for a while. As for Worthington E, we...

Drugs weren't really 'fashionable' in my day. Gold Leaf cigarettes and the occasional Worthington 'E' - Yes. JR's day was my day and I think he's quite right. I think the episode I mentioned in the first post on this thread was the first, and probably a one-off for a while. As for Worthington E, we...

'tis rumoured that Roger Martin WAS an Old English Sheepdog.

In my day, as it was summer term, we wore blazers and grey flannels etc. And grecians could wear "civvies". I remember someone reading grace for tea in his civvies (that was fine) but WITHOUT A JACKET!! That caused a hoo-ha. And english angel, that's how I remember Butlin's Littlehampton ...

Katharine wrote: In the afternoon there were silly games on the school field with silly prizes.

This is reminiscent of what the "left-behinds" in Horsham had to put up with on St Matthew's Day.

It occurs to me that Whole Holidays were a standard feature of public school life in those days. I remember reading a Billy Bunter story "Billy Bunter's Banknote", in which a Whole Holiday features -- but that took a more exotic turn than anything we did at CH: the "Bounder" spen...

I remember the Whole Holiday with a shiver, at least to start with, because I could think of no way of spending it. In 1959, we even had two, as "by command of Her Majesty the Queen" (that's what it said on the notice!) we had another for Princess Margaret's wedding. Second-year and button...

I've just opened this thread for the first time and realized what it's all about. I have not been affected. I'm not quite sure how I would react. However my other Alma Mater, Emmanuel College Cambridge, has certainly practised it on me. As Emm Coll was nothing more than an up-market hall-of-residenc...

sejintenej wrote:
The senior monitor had a cubicle opposite the fire escape on the 1st floor and his nº 2 had a cubicle immediately above it.

Precisely. Sauve qui peut!

hunta42 wrote: it seems maybe that the old beds are actually bettr than the new ones...

Could you ever have doubted it?

Incidentally I have now implemented the arrangement I was proposing for myself in the first posting on this thread, and am very happy with it. I believe I have also converted my wife.