Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I do remember we had the school coach driven to the dining room doors and decorated with all sorts. Isn't the coach thing obligatory??!! Seemed to get moved somewhere each year by the leavers!!

What did you get up to on your last night at CH?
I honestly don't remember much about it other than I woke up just before 7am in a study in Maine A God only knows how I got there.

Didn't know you could apply to be a monitor!

King Edward Close is the road I was thinking about - remember going there to Mr Hackets house with his daughter!

rebel wrote: before even a cup (bowl) of tea.

Had completely forgotten about the bowls!!! Very odd that!

jtaylor wrote:Any Turkey Twizzlers on offer?? (I gather than these are selling out all over the country now in supermarkets, as everyone wants to try them to see what they're like!)

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Do some of the staff still live in the houses down towards the station behind the tennis courts? In fact, are those houses still there? What about the staff flats in the boarding houses - are they still there or did they lose them when they refurbished the houses?

Very nice! Haven't been to the school for 8 or 9 years now - seems to have been a lot of changes in that time!

Are these new houses being used as additional boarding houses or an extension of the existing house or for something else?

This thread looks as if the contributors could write a good limerick or two on the subject of their bacchanalian revels or drunken forays, whichever you prefer. probably there's a more modern phrase that fits but I don't know it. how about adding to the limerick thread??Surely a song or two, or som...

Probably when a couple of us bought some cans of Guinness and a bottle of Martini Bianco from the shop the other side of the railway bridge on the way back from town one leave day. To this day I have never felt as ill as I did the next day after drinking that mixture! We were made to walk in a strai...

We were allowed to change into our own clothes on Saturday afternoons and also after morning chapel or before evening chapel. That's going back to when I started at Hertford in 1981. If I recall correctly, the Lower & Upper Sixth were allowed to wear their own clothes all weekend. I don't rememb...

One regret re the post merger uniform - that the girls are dressed for best as fanciful versions of the boys. This bothers me because, while the boys' outfits have a direct line from history, the girls' don't. I agree with that. When we moved to Horsham in 1985 the prime concern as regards the unif...

Mine went straight in the bin!

englishangel wrote:We had very thick baggy cotton underwear in the summer and in the winter we wore white cotton briefs under baggy cotton 'blues'.

I'd forgotten about blues!!! We only wore them for sports though (instead of shorts).