Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

The only terrifying thing about being a squit in those days was the announcement passed down the Prep B house table a few days after first arrival (we sat in houses in Dining Hall in those days and this is often how official messages were promulgated!) that "tomorrow all new squits have 2 teet...

it was reported that some folks were messin around in Mab after lights, and shouted 'KV' when they heard kemp approaching, who dutifully told them: "Come on now chaps, you know it's pronounced cave" I can confirm that this certainly occured during my days in MaB! CHK would probably have r...

Mr O'Boyle - yeah (at the end of every sentence) Mr Grimshaw - 'ere chaps I'll never forget the morning at shoe inspection (how lame was that!) that he said " would the person who wrote KHG is a sh1t on the toilet window see me afterwards!" He was so calm and collected. Good housemaster, i...

What a fantastic idea!! I wish I had thought of that! Do they still have that retarded system of signing books out? It's such an "honesty" based system that they must lose hundreds of pounds worth of books every year. (Obviously I'm not a firm believer in the moral integrity of blues) lol...

JTaylor wrote: On the subject of chemicals, anyone else remember when we had the bomb disposal guys turn up, to remove a bottle of TNT from the chemistry labs?? Builders were moving a cupboard, and found a bottle behind it. On inspection it was clearly something which would have turned into TNT (su...

I remember going down there once and we were pretty sure that we ended up at the old sports centre. We came up in a room that was full of wierd machinery. I know we started at Dining hall and headed in that direction, but maybe we were mistaken.

Does that sound familiar?

setting the boards... what a memory! It was always fun to lampost someones bed too!

I may be going way out here, but does anyone remember or, dare I ask, have a copy of the housey rap? It seemed so funny at the time!

OK, so I am at grad school here and might not be too helpful for undergrad admissions (although I could certainly find out..)

I can definitley tell you about what an undergrad degree here involves though or what grad school is like.

What I really want to know is - is the 'Chelsea' still there? I think by '97 it had become a little worn out. And how did it get that name?