Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Any idea to date? The skirts are far shorter than we were allowed!

Vonny wrote:

Great Plum wrote:AKAP - I think a 'young Old blue' includes those up to 30...

So am I officially an old old blue? What do you class those who are 50+?

Obviously we must be Ancient, but still got a long way to go before we match our RR & A Foundation!

palgsm93 wrote:

Katharine wrote:Especially when you misspell my name, John

I hope you're an executrice. This could be fun!

On another thread I have said that I can quell a class of teenage girls with just a single LOOK

Some years ago my son gave me a desk agenda called forgotten English, with a different word for each day. EG, Jan 24, CLOCK FACES A favourite name for the small circles of ice formed upon a pool when it begins to freeze over. (Frances Taylor's Folk-Speech of South Lancashire, 1901) The one for Kath...

englishangel wrote:Those I like John.

So do I, particularly the second!

There is a theory that girls do better at an all girls school, whereas boys do better in a mixed environment. This is of course an impossibility to achieve for everyone! Yes, I think we were confident young ladies about many things - but we really did lack contact with boys which made for some probl...

I loved the singing at CH and honestly find it hard to imagine that it could be possible to FORGET the tune to Carmen or the Foundation Hymn. I remember them all ( Hymns Ancient and Modern wasn't it ? ) including alto parts and descants . I also have the English translation to the whole of Carmen t...

Mrs C. wrote:Take a look here...

http://user.itl.net/~geraint/christshospital.html

You won't be surprised to learn that we sang only three verses, omitting the third for fairly obvious reasons!

When I was there we had James Blades a percussionist, I believe he mentored Evelyn Glennie, and it was actually him (a small man) who banged the gong on the Rank film titles. He was great he made music on all sorts of things, not just percussion but garden hoses and funnels and things. There was so...

I first came across sickle cell anaemia when some of my pupils suffered it, I was a VSO teaching in Northern Ghana. It gave some sort of protection against malaria, can't remember the details. In Sarawak I came across another similar disease thalassemia, the son of friends of us needed the monthly b...

My father was a contemporary of Sydney Carter at school, that's as much as I know!

Do you remember the other "Main School Hymn"????? The Churche's one Foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord; She is his new creation By water and the Word; From Heav'n He came and sought her To be his Holy bride; with his hown blood he bought her, and for her life he died.. Tune S.S. Wesley w...

I remember you Katharine :D .I think you had blond/gingery hair and freckles in those days and are quite tall (???) . You were a GA in sixes when I arrived , a skinny "new girl" number 6:17. What number were you ? ( I was responsible for hankies in the wardrobe room...so numbers are very ...

I know the girls' verse of the Carmen (theirs was Votum wasn't it?) which always caused confusion to the visiting Grecians and Old Blue Dads started Artes palaestrae floreant - may the arts of the gymnasium flourish. We weren't quite sure what the arts were though!

Some of these generosities come out in the book Half to Remember. I think she was a rather repressed person herself. There is no sign of any love interest in the book, perhaps there was something missing in her life. She was born in 1912 to an obviously well off family, but she does not remember eve...