Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Does anyone else remember the compulsory cold baths that were de riguer in Prep B in Mr Pink's reign? ..... after prayers and nose-blowing at the end of the beds, the queues of shivering little boys that were required one after the other to plunge right into a bath fillled to the brim with ice cold ...

er .................................... what's a bocker, please?

As it is now exactly 50 years since I left CH, I think things may have changed a little e.g there were no "New Deps" in my time. My son, Jonathan, is starting as a New Dep in September and is very much looking forward already to his induction in the Summer (tickets for travel have already ...

Yes Finney was a great and much feared fotcher when I moved from the Prep into Middleton A. Also thrashed juniors with a platted girdle - a truly terrifying presence!

In 1947 I was a Prep Squit aged 8! The only terrifying thing about being a squit in those days was the announcement passed down the Prep B house table a few days after first arrival (we sat in houses in Dining Hall in those days and this is often how official messages were promulgated!) that "t...

going back to late 40s/50s (!!!!) "kiff, crug, flab, squit, quis, ego", all used. Also: "skiffage pie" (delicious!), and another name given to a heavy duff that came looking like it had been squeezed out of a toothpaste tube ( i can't now recall the name. "Swabs" (fags)...

Did anyone see the article in last week's Times Ed Sup? It can be read on the web but without the pic of the Devil-painted Simmons in the original article. It seems that rock stars are able to teach self-confidence to Blues - but what's all this about CH being a fee-paying school where students have...

Well done Julian! I wish the forum every success but at present can think of nothing useful or significant to post. Will go out to catch/eat fish in order to improve brain power.