Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

On another point, someone asked about Sir Barnes Wallis Way. I believe that you will find that it is in a small estate of very modern houses in what used to be a farm, alongside the old swimming pool/gym/armoury and opposite the former Post Office.

David

I asked about Barnes Wallis Way as I ...

This morning we had a visitor in church, she signed the visitor book with an address in Barnes Wallis Way, Christ’s Hospital. Over coffee I introduced myself, assuming she must be connected with the school. It was obvious she didn’t know what I was talking about when I said I’d been at Hertford ...

I’ve just bought it for my kindle, £3.00. We have far too many books in this house!


I have just started reading the book and have already met Miss Dorothy East the headmistress of a girls school. The first anecdote about her is one I may have posted myself about our Miss West here, not one that ...

This time it's The Observer and it didn't go in. But I print it here for the interest of my older generation. It's replying to a female writer in the Guardian who had been to her first rugby match and found it inexplicable.

"Marie Le Conte needs to understand the history of rugby union. Before Dr ...

I’ve just bought it for my kindle, £3.00. We have far too many books in this house!

Interesting that our Headmistress was in the mix.

I don’t often pay that much for a book, nowadays!

Chrissy, you’ve missed a few, I can add a suspenders belt, swimming costume and face flannel. We could also bring a pot of home-made jam and some sweets, both of these being locked away most of the time. I think we also had a pair of tennis shoes.

I do remember my father giving the Lenten addresses ...

I hadn’t thought about blue dye being cheapest. I know that woad and indigo were often the earliest developed dyes in many parts of the world - except Borneo where they developed rusty reds instead.

Thanks, you could well be right! I hope I will learn, and her opinion on the place. The interview was online not face to face so she hasn’t been to Horsham yet.

Does anyone know what a student on a year’s placement would do as Designer in Residence at CH? A friend has just told me her daughter doing a Computer Aided Design (?) course at Loughborough has got her year out placement at CH. My friend didn’t even know I had any connections with the school!

There’s a paywall to the Telegraph, but I found this about her when it was her 100th birthday https://www.hertsad.co.uk/news/21732049.supplying-secret-agents-headmasters-secretary-patricia-celebrates-centenary/

There’s a bit more here https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/britishmilitariaforums/pat ...

Another advantage of keeping your UK passport is that there is an agreement that Commonwealth countries allow all Commonwealth citizens to use their embassy in an emergency. E.g. a British person in an emergency situation in Burkina Faso, which has no UK embassy, can use the Indian, Canadian ...

Another advantage of keeping your UK passport is that there is an agreement that Commonwealth countries allow all Commonwealth citizens to use their embassy in an emergency. E.g. a British person in an emergency situation in Burkina Faso, which has no UK embassy, can use the Indian, Canadian or ...

Pupils of my generation will be aware (as were the individual pupils involved) t hat housemasters could and sometimes did read personal correspondence.


Did you have to leave your letters open? We did, we had letter writing on a Sunday when we were all supposed to write home. We then left the ...

That’s right sejintenej, you can get an Irish passport provided, of course, you have the documentary evidence. Your daughter can too, but for her the first step is to be registered as Foreign born Irish. As you’ll need some of the same certificates for a passport for you and registration for her, I ...