Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

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Munch, I've sent you an e mail, I hope. Can you let me know here if you haven't got it.....

If the photo is the one I'm thinking of it has Anne G, Linda Gamlin and me walking away from the gates, in blazers, summer dresses, short socks and sandals, past a bus stop posse of miniskirted dolly birds, as my father called them. It was published in the Hertford Mercury as part of a big article a...

That's right. Brenda Griffith Williams came straight from Oxford in my last year to teach French- she was only a few years older than us, and would have liked to be friends had the conventions allowed it. I did get to know her a few years later when I started work in London - she had left CH and tea...

It is Mrs Lewis. All I remember of biology is sitting on the back bench with you Munch (and Susan Parkin?), exchanging notes and generally not doing any work.

Thanks Jo. Yes, Mrs Worley, of course. Definitely an old 7! I'd forgotten Lil was head hm... a role I think I associate with Miss/Mrs Houghton of 8s, who had real style.

Having just joined, I can fill some of the gaping void that is 3s after 1952. Not sure when Mrs Norris left but she was followed by Miss Lilian Thomson (no p), always known as Lil. Thin and white haired, she looked like a "typical" housemistress in shapeless skirts and jumpers and flat sho...

Ah yes, Sunday. I got into serious trouble in my last year when Lil had left and we had no housemistress. Other houses had "running tea" on Sunday which meant you could go and get it from the kitchen and have it where you liked, but 3s had always had proper formal sit down tea. So we decid...

I've enjoyed this thread so much. WWWWiW and HDSummers are so much a part of my mental landscape, not to mention truncated spurs, drumlins and terminal moraines. I always loved physical geography, especially glaciation, maybe because the theory and the reality matched so perfectly, unlike most thing...

I think you mean toenail slush..... I hate to be negative, but all the Sunday puddings involved the curdling effect of fruit juice and custard, which I still don't care for. Friday puddings - now they were something else again, particuarly treacle stodge, and the chocolate one that came with chocola...

Going back about 2 years on this thread, 3s went to chapel in an order prescribed by the mons at the beginning of each year, designed to ensure that you didn't sit next to anyone you might want to talk to... or anyone who might make you misbehave (it was a difficult design exercise, as I recall from...

Between 1964 and 1971 there was roast dinner on Sundays at Hertford - and for one house a week it would be "our roast" which meant (hooray) roast not boiled potatoes and Yorkshire pudding. But if it was the (approximately) one Sunday a term there was pork not beef (they were all "flat...