Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Would seem from your punishments from two of the most admired of all schoolmasters in the history of our fine school that they were not the a**hole! In my time (70s) Bob Sillett was famous for being nasty, his tangents were a great talking point, meaning people were wary of him. He was said to have...

Play up Pompey, Dunc

Yes Andy, I can't believe we're finally rid of all the shysters, gunrunners, mafiosos and false sheikhs. Play up Pompey, in whatever division they happen to be. We've been in Div 4 before and had fun, I remember travelling to see them play at outbacks like York, Donny, Brentford, Charlton ( :D your ...

Personal choice. Yes, this photo brings back memories of long happy summer days. I'd actually just gone up to Thorn B so was a year above this lot but many names come flooding back. Phil Hughes, Harry Wooldridge, the Donaldsons, Johnny Walker, Ben Ramos, Sizer, McCurdie, Mckay, Hutchinson, Ward, the...

Donaldson wins in the hair stakes

I have just received my copy of 'The Blue - 2012'. The cover photograph makes me think that the school is ashamed of the 'Broadie Buckle'. Why is it being worn at the back? Why does the school not enforce a proper dress code? It really makes me angry... it is a nice buckle... and should be worn in ...

This thread seems to have been doomed from the start, hope it's not an omen for poor Pompey

Thanks AKAP and David. Is the hymn called Christe redemptor omnium?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kws0Gh683I Starts at about 8 mins 40 seconds. Thanks very much for that, certainly a lot better than the other version!! Actually, it never fails to bring a lump to my throat, and it's always been my favourite hymn (must have been the emotionally charged reception of...

Haven't got the leaving hymn have you? Sung by CH? Watching this put me in mind of it, but the only version on YouTube is dire - to put it politely. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu-InRyw4Ko Crikey, it's one of my favourite hymns of all time and you're right, that version is dire. So dire that I c...

3 of the 4 members of the band are YOBs http://www.nme.com/news/palma-violets/66762 Sorry, I might be being a bit slow here but do you mean they are young Old Blues or they are hooligans? YOB's is a shortening of Young Old Blues . On second thoughts................... Thanks JR for the clarification

Mrs C. wrote:3 of the 4 members of the band are YOBs

http://www.nme.com/news/palma-violets/66762

Sorry, I might be being a bit slow here but do you mean they are young Old Blues or they are hooligans?

time please wrote:lol! What about an index for us who hated the place and or where destroyed by being there. I cannot believe that being at CH was the best thing that happened for every pupil.

Whoever said it was?

I seem to remember in the late 70s that the whole school went up one year. Anyone with a better memory than me recall why? I have a feeling we were all given a coin by the Lord Mayor - the largesse) Some wag left a train door open on the way home and it was taken off by a train going in the other di...

Thanks