Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Ah, yes, Field Day. One in a brickfield somewhere with all the potatoes used up as missiles. Field day stew, everyone bring a can of something and chuck it in (opened before you ask). Pumping a primus to make it go - a thin fountain of fuel shot out an duop and soaked all the bread. Escaped to the ...

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Sillett did the same in LHB, they were built in the summer of 83 just in time for my LE and were basically a zig zag of vertical wooden panels sat on the big tables so if viewed from above they would have looked like a square sin wave. Each LE had a recess with 2 shelves and a flat vertical panel t...

Richard Ruck wrote:

blunzn wrote:We also had a very pretty au pair in Ba... van haagh or something?... `nuff said...

Caroline Wiegerinck, assistant matron?

Piccy from 1973 here : http://www.chforum.info/pictures/BarnesA1973.jpg

I couldn't help noticing: what is the bush growing at the right of the picture?

There is some evidence that one of the reasons British officers in WWII treated POW camps as a challenge, rather than prisons, was their experience of public schools

englishangel wrote:My sons know Big Boy
and the Little Boy as well,
the bombs to end wars!

The code names for the bombs were 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man', not 'Big Boy'

Cold, hungry. Rain dripping
Running in thick clay. Reward?
Marmite fritters.

For the scientifically inclined: http://improbable.com/

As far as I know, I was the first OB to attend Bangor 61-65. Certainly when I showed up for my interview in uniform it created quite a stir. I loved it: in large part because with two teachers colleges and a nursing school, there were a lot of women. Coming from seven years at CH it was an eye-opene...

The only name that comes to mind is Steggles, but I couldn't guess which ones .

I have a feeling he was attached to 'Special Services' for a time, possibly immediately after the war or at the end of the war. In a conversation with him, many years after I left, he talked about working behind enemy lines in Burma. He never explicitly said which branch of the service he was in, b...

While we're on the subject of rugby: is there anyone else who was at CH for 8 years and never managed to get even into the 5th XV? Rugby was hell on earth, especially on a cold. wet Saturday afternoon. Curiously, though, I thought 7-a-sides was quite fun. But I suppose it wasn't "character bui...

Round here he will be mainly remembered for his philanthropic work. Just a few miles from here is the first of many Hole in the Wall camps for terminally ill children which was one of his first major contributions. Since then his Newman's Own food line has donated over $200 million to various charit...

Received this via Facebook today: Guess I won't be drinking Starbucks anymore!! ! Recently Marines in Iraq wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to let them know how much they liked their coffees and to request that they send some of it to the troops there. Starbucks replied, telling the Marines t...

Rene Descartes walks into a bar and the barman asks "would you like to try the house wine?" Descartes says "I think not": and disappears