Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Beyond satire??? That's 'post-satire'... Francis Fukuyama's influential 1989 essay 'The End of History?' announced the triumph of liberal democracy and the arrival of a post-ideological world. As another writer put it: "The modern age was a time when human beings, alone or together, could sculp...

This picture (just pre-WWII?) is as I remember it:

From today's CHOBA News:
THOSE OLD BLUES WHO ARE NO LONGER WITH US

...Wendy Fryer CH Infirmary Nurse 52-53

You will see that there were many convictions (i.e. involvements of the police) throughout the 20th century: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0046760X.2016.1177122 And many cases of non-reporting: '...in the years 1954–1956. When it came to independent schools, however, the advice to re...

Respect, Rob.
So, trying to interpret the list, only one of the four listed Education Committee members (which deals with 'welfare' amongst other things) is an Old Blue (1973-1980 approx).

I too was immune to that epidemic, but I suspect Peele A was too far from the centre of things for me to be involved in the care of the infected.

My father's number was 5. He had a phone because he was a country vicar, and the 'exchange' was in the village shop, with a jack-field numbered 1-8. Everything had to be put through by Mrs Shopkeeper - she could, of course, listen in as she chose. We had no mains electricity or water...

...Dr Scott had no such psychiatric experience or knowledge. My personal view of 'Tommy' Scott was, "I can cure illnesses and warts, but I don't do 'personal problems'"... "You have personal problems ? Then sort them out yourself !" That was CH in the late 1950's. After my AWOL ...

You and I were in Prep A at the same time and in the upper also at the same time but I don't remember your name; possibly you were one year ahead of me. I was known as Chicken. If you remember me it might be for the occasion I nearly blew housemaster Pop Beaven out of his house concocting a phospho...

I attended CH during St. Clarence’s twilight years. He was like a bewildered time traveler from a former age. That was an accurate description of 'The Oil' Flecker at his end. The extreme in-house boys-boy sadism and gang-bang squit initiation degradations ceased (in Peele A) with Seaman's arrival....

@Robert Totterdell I am sure all here touched by these matters offer our heartfelt respect to you for taking on this 'spokesperson' role. Thank you. As someone who has been affected (long-term) by other aspects of my life at CH - not entirely the school's fault in my case - I sincerely hope you can ...

...No head teacher of any school in the 1950s... I just don't think things are as different now, especially compared to the 1980s-90s when many of the cases occurred, as people are saying. I don't think people who grew up after the social revolution of about 1963-68 have any idea how different thin...

sejintenej wrote: ↑Mon Aug 20, 2018 9:27 pm Was that the MOBAT...

That sounds fun. No Uncle's one was more like this - an M20: http://modernfirearms.net/userfiles/ima ... 229055.jpg

Uncle Kirby, who was commissioned into the Royal Signals during WWII, spent the aftermath of the D Day landings wandering Gold and Juno beaches collecting abandoned ordnance and radio trolleys. He then shipped them back on an unladen landing craft back to CH. He also came back from a summer CCF camp...

Bishbashbosh wrote: ↑Fri Aug 17, 2018 12:17 pm ...through Bluebell woods (I don't know if that the official name or just what we call it), then over a hill...

Sharpenhurst Farm was over that the hill. There were several farm buildings in various places 'over the hill'.