Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Remember saying to someone in Col B (about 1972) I want to learn to smoke! A couple of days later a proud owner of 10 Number 10 or Number 6. I think that smoking gave me cause to seek privacy something that was lacking at CH. Remember in my last year 74 going on a sunday evening down to the railway ...

I seem to remember that in Barnes A late sixties that the inspection was at least for me some type of substitute Mum.

Article in todays Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ether.html

Not sure about the bring back flogging bit. I seem to have spent hours waiting outside various headmasters/housemasters studies in the sixties/seventies waitng for the cane or slipper. Did no use at all. I think that sometimes I got into trouble just to irritate them. One of the few teachers I had ...

Thanks to JR I've just re-read this thread and see others write my own thoughts. Kit Aitken would use the cane or house shoe - despite multiple hidings of my face in his sofa I never worked out how he decided on the instrument of torture. Certainly the posterior was covered and I could never sugges...

jtaylor wrote:Can I remind posters about the Terms of Use
http://chforum.info/php/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2849
Particularly relating to defamation of individuals and/or bringing the reputation of CH into disrepute.

Thanks.

Julian

Just saying it as it was!

Have to agree it was a hell hole.
With masters who nowadays would be locked up ( apart from one or two who were actually human) and a headmaster who could have starred in " Silence of the Lambs".
hated the place and have not forgiven my parents for sending me there. CH 1968-74.

Hi Sejintenej!

With a name like that I presume you may at some time lived in Sweden?

lol! What about an index for us who hated the place and or where destroyed by being there. I cannot believe that being at CH was the best thing that happened for every pupil.