Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I remember a Sikh chap in my year, who I shall not name in the age of traceability as he had quite a distinctive name and he got a lot of stick whilst at CH, although he was generally liked and respected for his intellect, when he got his buttons once in place of the grace pronounced something that ...

It is a certain irony that the predominant German terror weapon, which although directed was not guided and had an element of randomness (understood to be part of the terror effect) would land relatively harmlessly on the former school of Barnes Wallis, whilst his Tallboys and Grand Slams were bring...

I have never heard of this, having been at CH 1978-85, when some at the school (e.g. Mr Kirby) would have been WW2 veterans and might well have had tales to tell or re-tell. I am suprised it wasn't more of a story, it must have left some form of crater visible even today.

From memory, and I have wracked my brains over the years without success, but seeing this reminds me, I would remove 'that' after 'table'. I could recite the one for before without even thinking, but got a bit stuck half way through the second! I found this after a search here, but I'm not certain o...

How does CH split up as regards degrees? Is there a pattern here? Arts, Literature, Humanities, Classics, Modern Languages or the STEM disciplines? From my time, mid-1980s, I certainly felt that CH regarded the science A-levels (and science degrees) as rather unworthy, despite there being two scien...

PPE is the original 'Media Studies' degree, it's just got Oxford's branding. If the author of the book you cite has a theory that rewrites economic science I'd be happy to see an elaboration of it. Does he deny that taxation and regulation, the soundness of money, private property and the rule of la...

A few weeks ago there was a Matt cartoon in the Telegraph, a civil servant in the corridor is grabbed as he goes past an office and is told that to meet the target, he's going to be tested 37,000 times (or so). This is called the gross output indicator approach, beloved of Stalin's 5-year plans: Hav...

Leave Days, early 1980s. A mix, mainly a chance to see my father who lived in London, and going up to London by train, or down to Brighton with him, the occasional day trip home to south east London, leaving home around 5.30 to get to CH via London Bridge/East Croydon. Not always possible to see a p...

I was in Charles Hazlewood's year, never in his house and I think I only shared one class with him, iirc Willie Lough OBE's LE German. My only interaction with Charles in 7 years was, iirc, being on the receiving end of a minor gratuitous insult whilst waiting outside Willie Lough's classroom, waiti...

Foureyes invites a debate as to why the international megarich would want to send their children to this country what with Coronavirus, etc. I would submit that the answer is heritage and tradition. The universality of the English language, our well-publicised but now defunct empire, our traditions...

In my time, late 70s, big yellow buckets of the stuff, which always had a whiff of stale milk (inevitably) and up to LE, drinking lots of it. There was some blurb about its high fat content, comparable to Jersey and Guernsey cows. It often had a sour edge. Once when we shared the Dining Room annexe ...

My main memory of you (from my time in LHB) is reports that you would roam Big Side with your dog which was trained to sniff out juvenile smokers. Nice to hear positive comments about the place from your time, and good to hear that it stood you in good stead. Squash was never really pushed at CH, th...

Having inadvertently provided the genesis of this thread, may I point out that in terms of the Signals, it was my impression (in mid-teens and for the limited time that I was in the CCF) that it was the parking lot for the less militarily-inclined in the Army section, and (from my time only) it appe...

In my years at CH, I can honestly say that whilst I remember Rocker as a member of staff, and I knew him by sight, I do not think that I was ever once in his presence or heard him speak, not having been in his House or a class that he taught, or even a game that he refereed. I knew him mainly by rep...

Very sad to hear of Tom's passing and his having suffered from such a terrible disease, RIP and condolences to his family, especially Jackie. He was my Housemaster in PeA in the mid-1980s. He was extremely good-natured and always brimming with enthusiasm and positivity. He also taught me German for ...