Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

"We know about Barnes Wallis and the Royal Mathematical School, but can CH match any of these other schools for Bizarre Bursaries?" First, there are no bursaries associated with the Royal Mathematical School. There were at one time, but it stopped sometime in the middle of the Nineteenth ...

Katharine, I accept that Hertford girls do not have a physical school to return to. But the boys of the pre-1902 period did not have a school to return to either, after the move to Horsham. These things happen. I also hope that you do not feel that Hertford has been forgotten. I know of one male Old...

Good old rockfreak, so consistent, always someone else to blame. Yes, I did watch the Radley series. I also visited Radley and met Dennis Silk on several occasions. Why rockfreak should cricise Dennis and wife for watching TV to see the election reults and Thatcher winning escapes me - after all, th...

Rockfreak must be in his seventh heaven this weekend with the publicaton of a new book which not only seriously opposes public schools, one of his favourite topics, but also cites, as a symbol of all that is wrong, no less a person that Dennis Silk - Old Blue, Senior Grecian, first-class cricketer, ...

During two tours in Singapore I never went near Bugis Street - not even once out of curiosity!!
David

During my time PINK was the senior housemaster of Prep B. He was certainly there in 1948-49 but I had no interest in Prep after I went to Lamb B so don't know how long he remained.
David

Katharine, A good guess concerning the abacus, but as LongGone has shewn this little machine had a different genesis. But I do agree with you about the speed of skilled abacus operators. I well remember the Chinese shopkeepers in places such as Change Alley in Singapore who were really, really fast....

Mike,
Many, many thanks. That is EXACTLY the information I was looking for.
I can remember being very envious of a contemporary who owned one of these.
David

I am researching the development of handheld/desktop calculators and would be grateful for any help on an unusual mechanical device I remember being used by some boys at Housie during my time there - 1948-1955. I have searched Google but cannot find it, but a keyword would help. It fitted into the h...

There are numerous 'odd' bursaries at CH, mainly associated with the City of London. One that isn't is the Oliver Whitby entry which is limited to two at a time from the Chichester area. This dates back to a bluecoat school in the Chichester area which became too expensive to run (I think in the 194...

"Emil Zatapek? Anyone remember him?"

Can't remember him, but do recall a chap called Emil ZatOpek. He won the 5,000 metres,10,000 metres, and Marathon at the 52 Olympics and by all accounts was a thoroughly nice man.

David

SamT says: "under the watchful eye of our host, an OB senior officer (whose name unfortunately I can no longer remember)."
Probably either Mickey Jarret or John Newman, or, possibly, Ray Bell.
David

sentinejej, You write: " There were no movie ratings.... " Are you sure that is correct? I seem to recall that all films were seen by the British Board of Censors, who then classified them into 'U' (=universal; i.e., could be seen by any age)); 'A' (adults; i.e., over 16 (maybe 18); and I ...

I have to admit that you have lost me. You said "No more PG Tips to be found anywhere". A positive and seemingly all-embracing statement, to which I replied that there are plenty of PG Tips on sale here in Devon (including half a shelf in Sainsbury's Newton Abbot at 1105 this morning - I c...

time please says: "No more PG Tips to be found anywhere!"

Not sure if this is meant as a joke or not, but I was in two supermarkets in Torbay this morning and they had absolutely no shortage of PG Tips.

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