Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

In viewing recent videos of CH on the Internet I noted changes of Housey clothes that have been introduced in the last few decades. Can someone explain what they signify? There may be other changes which I did not see and could also be explained. Of course if they can be illustrated with an image th...

An innocent pastime of some of the most junior boys in the years after the war, was Book Cricket. One opened a book at random and noted the letters in sequence, using a code to play a game of “cricket” (eg ‘e’ was a ball bowled without result, ‘x’ was LBW, etc, etc). These juniors would make up fanc...

I have just joined this Forum on the recommendation of a friend and find its content immensely varied. Are all final year pupils now called g----s? Surely not, even if many university degrees and other things have been devalued in the last few decades, the term g---- an has retained its esteem. Woul...