Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I've always really appreciated the fact that I was awarded one of the RAF Benevolent Fund scholarships and still have the plate I wore. I also met pilots and crew from 617 squadron when they visited the school and they gave me a 617 lapel badge. By the time I arrived at CH (1959) fathers of RAF scho...

I've told the story here before of getting into trouble for talking to Randall Cousins when he came to Hertford, he'd stayed with us several times in school holidays. I don't think I had any idea that you were only supposed to speak to a brother. I was certainly aware of Hertford while I was at Hor...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned 'Scratch' the vicar of Itchingfield in this thread. He used to teach me RE and had absolutely no classroom control. One of our favourite tricks was to get a mirror reflecting the sun and lower it down the wall above his head with the aim of getting it to reflect of...

I do recall one sort of incident back in the 60s. in 1965 Geoff Russell (Maine A?) and I managed to find ourselves two local girls as ‘girlfriends’. We used to ‘entertain’ them in the back projection room in Big School as I used to do the lighting for the school plays and had a key for the very cram...

I’ve read with interest the information of the plates that some of us wore (on the left breast just below the shoulder) when we were at CH. I still feel very honoured and grateful to have been the recipient of one of the RAF Benevolent Fund scholarships. I arrived at CH in 1959 and can remember John...

Good pictures and write-up in this week's Radio Times too.
What with Bob Dillon's 'Judas' concert on tonight - I was there at the Albert Hall a few weeks after I left the school in 1966 - it is a good week for nostalgia!
Geoff

A house photo of Barnes B from the summer of 1961. Click on image for larger version:- http://www.chforum.info/pictures/BarnesB1961Small.jpg (Photo added to webserver and hosted, to be added to gallery once established - JTaylor) Back row (L to R): M.J. Hillard, C.A. Perdue, P Chapman, P.S. Ledeboer...

Lots of talk about showers but in my first few years I seem to remember we had a 'trough' which would take about six people (usually all covered in mud) all scrunched up in a long line. No swimming costumes then. I do remember Chris Miller taking a photograph to aid the publicity to raise the funds ...