Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Yes. A 'good bloke'. The Guardian obituary mentioned how Nick Plumley had helped fire his enthusiasm for church organs. I remember that as part of a Grecians' Option Programme (I think) going down to his study for an introduction to classical musical. I already knew Mozart and Bach thanks to my ...

I've commented on this before, but I would be interested to see if any of my peers would think that I'm looking back through rose-tinted spectacles. I have no recollection of this sort of thing going on in the 60's. Rigid hierarchy, yes. But physical punishment by monitors had been banned the year ...

"I saw absolutely nothing at all like this when I was at CH in the 70s. There was undoubtedly bullying but nothing of this sort of vindictive nastiness". I was going to say much the same about the 60s.

It's Tonkin. And it was his funeral today.

That's interesting. I'd heard about the Jacqueline du Pré connection and always wondered how that started. Nell Todd never taught me; she was always the rather mysterious 'old' lady in the studio next to Mr. Lane.

From Christ's Hospital G.A.T. Allan Revised by J.E. Morpurgo (p19)

....."The names of many of those individual benefactors who, in its first two centuries, followed the example of Crown and City, are recorded only in Christ's Hospital's archives and in its more detailed histories but one name, that ...

I may well be wrong, but I'm sure I remember reading that the Erasmus after whom the forms were named was a wealthy London benefactor, not the 'Scholar of Rotterdam'.

There's nothing 'special' about them. It's just that they are the ones concerned here because it's a Christ's Hospital forum.

I was just about to say much the same thing!

I think Willie Watson played the trumpet.

Don't worry. As I said, it was the Daily Mail!

My recollection was 6:55, which seemed very early then but (like you) now seems obscenely late.
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Interesting! My experience of people of my age (65+) who get up at some unearthly hour (any time before 0830 in my opinion) then, after lunch, have a 'nap'. Anything up to 2 hours. Then, around ...

Nick was younger than me, but I remember him. In the obituary it said that he swore a lot. When I first arrived at CH, I was horrified (?scared) by the language. But I adapted! And I have to admit that I too 'swear a lot'. Am I alone?

He was Housemaster of Lamb B when I was there in the late 60's.

99% sure that Graham was in Peele A.