Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Can't remember To Kill A Mockingbird or Catcher in the Rye either - but Alex, thanks so much for reminding me of that beautiful Hardy poem.......it was one that I returned to tearfully several times in later years after disastrous love affairs!!

I still also love Under Milk Wood. And Paradise Lost ...

Hi Katharine - yes, he was - in an austere way. Have to say I had a bit of a thing for him myself. I have just watched a re-run of Jane Eyre on ITV3 (great channel!) with Ciaron Hinds as Mr Rochester - and in terms of looks, Fred wasn't unlike him. In terms of personality though Fred was as unlike ...

I know we all fell in love with Mr Rochester and we started calling the school surveyor (?) Mr Rochester! He was a mysterious man who appeared now and then, who looked at the buildings.

Hello Katharine. Better late than never (as I said, I don't visit the site as often as I should) but I thought ...

Angela - thanks so much for the recipes. I feel an afternoon of pure nostalgia in the kitchen coming on.......!
Julie
Sevens 65-72
Was Bennett now Hope

How very sad - I don't visit this site as often as I should and when I do, it always seems that yet another familiar name has passed on. My abiding memory of Miss Taverner is of Carmina Burana - which I think we "did" for Speech day. Everyone knows it now thanks to Classic FM and Old Spice but at ...

I remember Miss Champion (on anothr thread) wrote that I had terrible handwriting, very childish. My dad had to ask me to decipher it as he couldn't read HER handwriting.

I remember her handwriting being pretty awful 8)

As I mentioned, I was looking at old school reports the other night. Miss ...

But as for Heroes through the Ages - Mary - I honestly have no recollection whatsoever!! Were there any highlights I ought to remember?(was I even in it?)

Juli/Juliane (Bennett Sevens 65-72)

Kay Scorah was Heracles (smallest girl in the class) and I was her "Never fear Mummy's here" (biggest ...

I think I was also confusing Miss Mercer(History) and probably before my time with Miss Marter (later Mrs Roxborough). in fact I know I was wrong because I went to check my old reports. I also mistook Miss Rutherford, who taught me English in about Year 8 (sorry 2nd form) with Miss Riddiford, the ...

>>And just to round off teachers beginning with "R". Who remembers Deaconess Ridsdale? A much more rounded approach to religious education than just the Epistles of St Paul.

Thanks Juliana, there's one I remember. Great huge clanking cross round her neck but she was kind and very interesting as I ...

I think Champo taught English and Scripture but then we had Miss/Mrs Crutwell for scripture at some point. Didn't Champo also teach "geogo" to the first few years? :?

From what I can recall, Champo basically taught every subject to the Third Form - you only got the "specialist " teachers in the ...

I think I was also confusing Miss Mercer(History) and probably before my time with Miss Marter (later Mrs Roxborough). in fact I know I was wrong because I went to check my old reports. I also mistook Miss Rutherford, who taught me English in about Year 8 (sorry 2nd form) with Miss Riddiford, the ...

Miss Champion was third form form mistress in 1965 when I arrived - but I seem to remember that she left the School a few years later to "go and help the earthquakes in Latin America" as someone put it - translated I guess this means voluntary work!. But she was on a sabbatical I think and returned ...

I remember Judy Furnival wanted to be Prime Minister. I see from FRU that she is a social worker.

Judy could successfully argue that black was white (and this was before Miss Mercer's Logic classes) and yes, she did want to be first woman PM. In fact thinking back I am amazed how politically ...

Alex - you are amazing. Not only do you remember my proper name, you spell it correctly as well!! Something Dot never managed to do. When I left, she spelt it differently in my Bible, prayer book and Holmes Principles of Physical Geology (Wilcox Gift for Geography - who exactly was Wilcox?!) And all ...

Hello Mary

Sorry - I am still finding my way round here! As I said in my last message, I don't get the opportunity to visit that often and with the variety of memories and messages here I am never too certain which topic to add my two penneth worth to!

Anyway it is good to re-establish contact ...