Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

AndrewH wrote: Did the barber have a wooden leg? I thought it was just some form of leg irons (Polio?)

You could be right. Either way he never struck me as a very happy soul, but I don't suppose there was much job satisfaction in carrying out 100 hair cuts every Tuesday.

Did CH have more than it's fair share of monoped employees? In my time there was Kit Aitken (from whom I learnt the correct spelling of that immensely useful word Eschscholtzia), the school barber (who at the speed he worked must have been paid per head), and the bokker in the wardrobe.

Since ...

Seeing Tony Blair at the Lord Mayor's banquet last night - on the News, I wasn't actually there - reminded me of sitting on the floor of the Egyptian Hall eating something called a packed lunch. So, does everybody still line so the Lord Mayor can present them with a 5p coin? In 1967 when I joined ...

Not smoking related but I was caught with 2 friends emerging from the tube which runs from the laundry to Dining Hall. One Sunday afternoon we were wandering past the laundry building next to the old gym and noticed the door was open. Just inside was a set of concrete steps which went straight down ...