Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Ah, yes, the 1970s: Golden Age of Senseless Violence. Try telling the young folk of today about it - and they won't believe you. Remember travelling by train on match days in London - all those bootboys, all that shouting, all those scarves tied to wrists so you'd know who was punching your teeth ou...

I dimly recall a bloke called Mel Batt (Mid B in the 1970s) who I heard (long after the event) had become a Mod during the Mod Revival of the early 1980s. Apparently the poor fellow got the crap beaten out of him really seriously by skinheads on one occasion - hospitalised with serious facial damage...

I utterly loathe and detest sport as the most moronic activity known to mankind. Even nose-picking is more constructive. Playing sport strikes me as totally and utterly footling (unless you can make loads of money from it), but watching other people play sport is the most preposterously pointless ac...

I've actually seen A.B. (from a distance) a few times in recent months, wandering around Horsham. Never knew him well enough at school to go up and say hello, though! So the renowned Chilly Alf is still in circulation, then? He's a geezer I'd often wondered about over the years. Has anyone else che...

Anyone know what became of the upright, forthright, black-and-white, iron-fisted (and occasionally sanctimonious) persons who were big wheels at the CU? Are they deeply corrupt, drug-addled smack-dealers and gun-runners these days? Did they take to burning down churches at the dead of night? Do they...