Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Eastwood Copse, just over the level crossing.

In my day if you failed Latin O level that totally ruled out Oxbridge. As far as I remember the school Science Dept were very proactive in getting me a conditional place at London University, and an unconditional place at Liverpool. Since I underachieved massively in my S levels, getting worse grade...

...CH now is a totally different type of place from CH in the 1950s.... Britain in the 1950s was a totally different place. The tabloid headlines of 1953/4 - BUGGERY BEAULIEU splashed across the whole front page, made it quite clear even to an 11 year-old how post-war Britain viewed institutional s...

Personally, I'd opt for the Pierrepoint solution. Quick, Simple and cheap. One of the great benefits that you have received in this place is that I had the sort of career where got to spend an hour in a TV studio where Albert Pierrepoint was interviewed in depth about his life as Britain's judicial...

Martin wrote: ↑Wed Aug 08, 2018 7:52 am...whatsoever things are impure, unjust...

HLO Flecker's resonant oration of Philippians 4:8 from the HM's stall at the other end of the chapel still rings out clear in my memory - as it must have done for Buck - so I can still spot the misquote even at a distance of over 60 years.

I do not share the view that because it was the ‘norm’ it was ok. If anyone has put forward that opinion on the forum I, like you, do not agree with that view. It is never ok. On the one hand life in the school was (in 'those' days) systematically 'abusive'. On the other certain picked-upon individ...

...for getting middle class children used to their roles as colonial administrators. The whole school (seniors anyway) took a view on that when the ever last Empire Day was celebrated in May 1957 - the year after Anthony Eden's Suez invasion debacle. Empire Day had been traditionally celebrated by ...

Were there cases of senior boys who, for whatever reason, were never appointed as a monitor? Yes - in part. For spending a balmy summer Saturday night at Horham fair trying to chat up a girl from Broadbridge Heath who had a Saturday job in Woolworths, on my return (at about 11.30pm) I was given 6 b...

I come to appreciate the merits of CME Seaman all the more. My time at CH came to an untimely/premature end, with Seaman reading the leaving charge to me on my own in the chapel midway through my last summer term. Though CMES didn't do much to alleviate my mini mental-breakdown he certainly didn't ...

Myxomatosis did for the rabbits (for about 18 months there were festering corpses all over the countryside) so that put an end to the grey gristle-strewn rabbit stew that was a regularly featured item on the table in the era of rationing. So I suppose the food did get gradually better in MacMillan's...