Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Berlin. I did not know Mr Jefferis, but did serve in and visit West Berlin (as it then was!) and offer some comments on him being arrested and then released. Both the Soviets and the Brits understood the rules very well and, provided there was no over-riding international tension, there was a lot of...

Jonathan, Very good to hear from you - I trust that you and yours are well. I just did not know about 'StreetMap'. I was doing all sorts of contortions and calculations with Google Earth and getting nowhere. The answer is usually on the Web somewhere - it is just a matter of inputting the precise wo...

Ahem! Unfortunately that is what has defeated me and why I asked for help from someone wot is cleverer than wot I am!
David

Realising from the WaterTower discussions that there are many brains mightier than mine on this site, can one of them tell me the compass bearing (magnetic) of the straight stretch of the Avenue, please (i.e., from Thornton to Maine)? I should explain that I am doing some research on the C.H. site b...

Thank you both. That is really useful for some research I am conducting.
David

Does anyone know the height of the water tower?
This question was posed once before, but while it generated many remarks and reminiscences, not one answered the question!
So, to be specific, what is the height of the water tower (answers in feet or metres, don't mind which)?
David

Concerning the story about CH Horsham closing due to coronavirus - I wonder whether this is true, as it is given in just one local newspaper four days ago and has not been confirmed by the school or any other reputable source? There is a lot of bum information going round. Out of interest I looked a...

Have watched both parts - very disturbing. It certainly portrays the CofE in a shocking light, but judging by reports in other media, other churches - other religions, even - seem to have suffered from similar problems, including not just abuse, but also high-level cover-ups. One aspect of the progr...

Public beating in the quad? I was at C.H. from 1948 to 1955 and am positive that if such an event had taken place I would remember it - which I do not!
David

What about the campaign in Malaya 1947-59, in which many Old Blues took part?
David

I, too, remember Mrs Hurst and one lesson in particular. I cannot remember what the lesson should have been, but she broke off from the syllabus to devote the whole session to the invasion of South Korea by the North, which had just taken place (25 June 1950). She had one of those huge roll-up maps ...

"I believe the monks at Buckfast Abbey make their own tonic wine..." Indeed, they do - and it is very potent. It is the drink of choice in many bars in central Scotland, particularly Glasgow. Buckfast Abbey is just down the road from me and the monks are so proficient at money-making schemes that t...

I forgot to add that the former Abbot of Buckfast Abbey - also a Benedictine institution - was sent to prison for 15 months in 2007 for abuse of children at the abbey's prep school between 1971 and 1978. I take no pleasure in drawing attention to these events as I am a Catholic myself, but it does s...

https://www.iicsa.org.uk/key-documents/6583/view/ampleforth-downside-investigation-report-august-2018.pdf I have seen the IICSA report on Downside and Ampleforth referred to in passing on this site, but wonder how many have read it in its entirety (address above)? It makes for unpleasant, depressing...

Julian remarks that: " Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it....” (or something like that) ." True enough, although it is usually expressed as "Those who do not understand the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them." However, Old Blues have visited this topic before an...