Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

This is RWWD or Dickie Dawe. He taught geography and Latin in the prep school. He had piercing blue eyes and freckles. He had mangled his finger in a high tackle and the digit became twisted in his victim's shirt collar, so he told me. He would often stay out on the pitches punting rugby balls over ...

Re: Ajarn Philip's post above
I was a friend and contemporary of Roger Allam. I also remember his solos at the carol service in December 1971. He sang solo "In the bleak mid winter" and also "3 Kings from Persian lands afar". I can still hear it.

For anyone who may be interested, I am in regular touch with Rev John Robson Chaplain 1962-1983 and have been since I left CH in 1971. He is now 88, living in quality sheltered accommodation in central London. His mobility is not what it was, but he can still preach a mean sermon. He is often contac...

I was in Prep A later Leigh Hunt A 1964-1968. In the prep school, breaktime was around 10.30am. We all had to queue in the prep school hall in front of the stage to receive what I think was a third of a pint bottle of milk and 1 biscuit, usually a custard cream. Sometimes the milk was off, especiall...