Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

https://www.ifsecglobal.com/access-control/one-of-britains-oldest-boarding-schools-installs-new-security-systems/

"The historic building [i.e. the entire complex of buildings] now has read in/read out access on all doors, helping to maintain the security of the site and its staff and students ...

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/ ... -paul-rose

Condolences to his son Edmond, who followed in his father's footsteps at CH from 1976 to 1982.

In OB circles we don’t hear much about him, possibly because he chose to distance himself from CH.

Levin certainly refused to join the CH Club - ostensibly on the grounds that he was ‘not the clubbable type’ - but he didn’t cold-shoulder CH entirely. According to his obituary in The Blue ...

I came after Levin's time, but I was slightly junior to one of the actors who went on to be in the cast of Levin's 'Oh Calcutta' (and Hair).

I feel there may be a mix-up here. The man behind Oh! Calcutta! was surely Kenneth Tynan. I've never heard Levin mentioned in connection with it, though of ...

He was in Middleton A from 1932 to 1936 and later became a Governor:

https://www.wilmslow.co.uk/news/article ... lebrations

Sorry to learn of the death from cancer of the distinguished organist Catherine Ennis (6's 1965-71; later a member of the music staff at CH Horsham until 1985), President of the Royal College of Organists from 2013 to 2015:

https://www.rco.org.uk/news_displaystory.php?newsid=340

There's a ...

Our former director of music, now "one of England's outstanding headmasters", will become principal of Rugby School Thailand next year:

https://ie-today.co.uk/news/staff-appoi ... uary-2021/

…who taught the piano at CH for three decades or more, bowing out in 1991:

https://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/pe ... th-3042205

I have a feeling that his CH dates are incorrect. I remember the name and according to his dates, he would have been on my year, but he was not in any of my forms. Given that he received a First in 1968, he must have been at least one or two years before me, probably one as I will be 73 later this ...

…summarised in an article marking his retirement:

https://www.shropshirelive.com/business ... fty-years/

"Widely recognised as one of the best minds amongst his contemporaries":

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obit ... 02833.html

Sir David Norgrove (Thornton B 1959-67, Senior Grecian) , chairman of the UK Statistics Authority, omits to mince his words in a letter to the Health Secretary about the inadequacy of the government’s stats on coronavirus testing:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52889103

Hugh Pym of the BBC ...

Judging by the small print on the cover, it looks as though last month this magazine included an illustrated write-up of the Tube, in its various ramifications:

https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/100545174_3136589733051272_1466330602545348608_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_oc ...

More tributes here:

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/ ... le-2855309

…who was in Leigh Hunt B and Lamb A between 1968 and 1975:

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/ ... er-2854343