Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I'm sorry, and ashamed, to have to ask this, but could someone clarrify whom the CH houses are named after?

Lamb, Coleridge, Leigh Hunt and Middleton are all fairly obvious but I'm not sure I know who Peele is (he's NOT the police one is he?) or most of the other ones.

Anyone know?

Apologises for ...

"I seem to remember something about a Blue sierra man rather than a blue nun. So called because he drove a blue sierra and was allegedly a paedophile who was in the billingshurst area and we were warned about him in the early 80's. No idea if it was true."

That survived into the 90s as well.

At the risk of tainting my "reputation", (not much to tarnish admittedly) we in Lamb A (96-2000) spent most of our UF and early GE nightwalking.

We used to wait until the Grecians and Hobson our housemaster were in bed and then the person detailed to wake us up would do so and then we'd sneak down ...

When our year left in 2000 we managed to do a kind of 'best of' of many of the things you have already mentioned. We managed to rustle a sheep and get it in the quad - as Alice already mentioned - we played football with the miniature goals from littleside and also managed to steal a set of rugby ...

That is probably a fair comment but - as was pointed out at the beginning of the topic - clearly the school's priority was and always will be rugby, certainly in the first term. Plus we tended to play 'footbal schools' during the Lent term which allowed them vastly more experience than ourselves. I ...

Quite possibly.

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As far as I am aware, I dont know of anyone that has gone professional, but it isnt surprising given the lack of emphasis on the game, although this has improved. It is bollocks however to say that we were useless at it while we were at school. I dont remember getting hammered in many games ...