Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I'd expect (hope for) more publicity after Dobbie's sentencing is handed down, especially if/when more is publicly made of the fact that Reverend Dobbie was a chaplain in the Chichester diocese who hosted Bishop Ball during his numerous visits to the school over the years. Sometimes it helps put th...

Thanks for penning this, Colonel. It must have taken some deep reserves to do so. I wish you success in your dialogue with the school. I would gently suggest that through your palpable anger you recognise that this sorry affair that there are victims outside the span of Seaman and Newsome. Specifica...

Your Limerick was crass, ill-judged and didn’t have any of the witty merit that sometimes means that such things are indulged. If there was a serious point behind the vulgarity then it was spectacularly well hidden. I complained, but interestingly the site told me that a complaint had already been m...

rockfreak wrote: ↑Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:11 pm Some of these people are exactly what Nick Duffell is talking about in his books about Boarding School Survivors.

Your exhortations on this site to read Duffell's bl**dy book will shortly enter double figures. Are you on a commission?

rockfreak wrote: ↑Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:29 pm {Post removed by moderator.}

Utterly inappropriate, given the circumstances.

Rick’s death was a tragedy that stunned the school. I had no idea that a psychologist was drafted in to provide help - that was kept quiet. I wouldn’t have gone near the Chaplaincy at the time for anything - there’s enough here on Dobbie. Sheila Banyard was cold, cruel, and had an air of such sancti...

Janey Jam-Jar wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:26 pmHe certainly should not have any sort of involvement with children once out of clink.

I’d rather hope that this was something governed by the law of the land rather than the wet statutes of the sky pixie people.

I certainly remember an alternative interpretation of the oft-scrawled ‘BBB’.

I had no idea he had a doctorate.

I wonder if the Charity Commission is a suitable avenue for approach and reproach for the School? They probably take a dim view of institutional child abuse, however historical.

Who is CVS?

I can’t resist an alternative a response to the thread title:

The food was undoubtedly wholesome, nutritious, and delicious - right up until the point where it entered the CH Kitchens.

Mrs Keely made Lucrezia Borgia seem like Nigella.

This issue of references is important and also actionable. As CH moved Karim on knowing full well he was a bad’un but supplied a reference that was sufficiently glowing for him to obtain employment elsewhere, then that is serious misconduct and a failure to even faintly recognise the obligation to p...

yamaha wrote: ↑Sat Jul 21, 2018 9:10 pm
https://www.owf.org.uk/

I see what you are getting at. In another twenty years or so we shan’t have a problem.

In another thread, Golfer wrote: No. That information would stay with the Counting House. Occasionally donation governors might visit a pupil in school and house parents would be aware of that, but I don't think all such pupils were on full fee remission as the CH definition of "need" was ...