Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Near Strasbourg, working as an au pair between CH & Oxford. I was very unaware of everything about the World Cup. I can’t remember a TV in the apartment. The children’s grandfather rang to tell me the result, knowing his son wouldn’t be interested and wouldn’t know! I thought that a very kind ge...

Thank you for telling us, I remember her posting here, but not from her time at school. She arrived in 65 and I left in December that year.

Sadly, he died last month after 45 years as Earl Baldwin of Bewdley. He was a master at CH Horsham from 1970 to 1974. The Telegraph sums him up as "defender of his grandfather Stanley's political reputation and advocate of complementary medicine". Unfortunately you'll need to be registere...

As a Brit abroad myself, both as an ex-pat and on operations, tea (along with Marmite and a few other products) was one of the things I always brought out with me. I therefore sympathise with 'time please' but would suggest that, when the opportunity presents itself, he changes from PG Tips to York...

My condolences to you, and all who knew and loved your brother.

Thank you for that, not that I knew either of the OBs, but my grandfather, also a cleric, retired to the same place, College of St Barnabas, Lingfield. it was good to learn it is still going, as my grandfather died in the 60s

Thank you, Otter, very interesting. I see my son could claim Pakistani citizenship, I don’t think he has any plans to do so!

My mind boggles at the very thought! I presume the boarding houses were locked at night, but I can’t honestly remember.

Did anyone else sign up for any of the CHOBA webinars? I've enjoyed two of them, Bletchley Park and today on the Welchman-Turing Bombe, used to decode Enigma messages. I learnt a lot and may well sign up again if something catches my eye.

At the time I was in the far north of the country, close to the border with Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso. The tribes there were vey fragmented and definitely not Akan.

As to tribal markings, I used to be able to recognise the local ones, they varied a lot in number and depth of cut.

Welcome George. I left Hertford in 1965, in 69 I went to Northern Ghana as a VSO, but I don’t think I can have been as beautiful as the wife in your book title! A chief only offered Four Cows and Seven Goats for me. He had 16 wives and 42 children already, but I’d have become number one wife, or so ...

For some reason I’d always imagined her as a much younger woman when she went to Horsham. I remember my brother talking about her. She is possibly the only one of his teachers whose name and subject I remember!

I agree with you David. In the Book I quoted only one former monastery was quoted and that wasn’t for a school.

While temporarily distracted from work (I have no idea how that happened...), I came across Old and New London vol. 2, by Walter Thornbury (Originally published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London, 1878). Chapter XLVI is devoted, in considerable detail, to CH. I'm sure it's known to many of you...

Thanks for bringing it to our attention. That bit about our founder goes against everything we were ever told. I wonder whether there is any corroboration of the statement?

I’ll check whether it’s referenced in the 1953 book, I have my father’s copy.