Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

If it is roughly 95-96-97 maybe (I think he skipped a year due to illness) have a pretty good idea of who this is, I think I know them fairly well.

I remember the bandmaster "elopement". It was referred to in a certain school satirical magazine of the time... Thinking back on it now, I bet there were also some issues of sexual abuse with older boys pupils as perpetrators. I was in lamb A and there was a real weird Grecian who had a st...

It has been mentioned in another post on this forum that Dobbie, McCall and Patterson were close friends.

One half-term someone in Leigh Hunt B went to France and came back with a load of what we called 'French Bangers' (being then 2nd and 3rd Formers, no Sid James sniggers please), which were Chinese fireworks not available in the UK. Anyway, these were a great source of entertainment. Various uses we...

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Who are JAH and GWD? If the latter is GW Deakin (OB) I find this most strange. GWD seemed to have a very happy family life (including daughter nicknamed “Minnie”), did not leave suddenly but because his most important work (Engineering Grecians) was disbanded. Although he also directed the Manual S...

"Father Porteous" sounds like a character from Father Ted. I don't remember him from my time there. Perhaps his quirk would be denying everything.

That would be an ecumenical matter.

The 1970s school doctor published a paper in 1979 in the 'Practitioner' titled 'Collaboration between psychiatrist and doctor in a boys' boarding school' (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/482232) Hoskins was an Old Blue, of course, and familiar with boys boarding school matters and masters. It w...

richardb wrote: ↑Fri Aug 24, 2018 7:09 pm I am informed by one of Dobbie's victims that he was convicted of abuse in his flat in MidA.

Doesn't surprise me at all. This is very consistent with rumours I heard, which I thought were too unbelievable the time (1996), involving someone in Mid A

But there is no other country in Europe, and not many in the world, where cases 40+ years old could be prosecuted. There are various reasons for this (1. unreliability of evidence; 2. 'identity' of person now and person 40 years ago; 3. purpose served by punishment ('public interest') -- clearly it...

I remember Snook. He was an assistant Housemaster in Mid B. Always seemed in a bad mood and annoyed with the school (perhaps disgusted?) Maybe the reasons for his disgust were related to certain other teachers on the scout trips... Pure speculation though.

It's ludicrous to claim that child molesting was not considered an extremely serious crime in the 1990s. Perhaps a predatory older man exploiting 16 or 17 year olds was taken slightly less seriously, in that some of what Husband did would have been illegal now but was legal then, namely the 'consens...

Loads and loads of time then to acquire a dodgy passport and flee to South America !! :o I thought the current bolthole is Northern Cyprus. Pattaya in Thailand, coincidentally where Poulton's International School of Regents is located, is another wretched hive of scum and villainy where internation...

This is part of why I'm so pissed off with Poulton in particular. Several friends were instantly expelled from CH by Poulton for being caught having sex, and treated to patronising sermons about it. The entire school even had to endure one cringe inducing lecture in Big School where he talked about ...

They should reintroduce the bizarre medieval anchorite practice of sealing monks into tiny rooms without doors or windows until they die, that way the School would be safe from the Abbey.