Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

How about a contemporary list of CH celebrities? There's Jason Flemyng, who left Mid A in the mid-80's and is quite an accomplished actor with many films and TV under his belt (e.g Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrells, Snatch, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Primeval etc etc) :) Two others who've...

Do other people know about this blog about Old Blues?

http://trongon.blogspot.com/

Author's identity fairly obvious, I think, but he asks us not to mention his real name, so I shan't. Hopefully anyone who comments here will show a similar restraint!

Have a look though - interesting…

Dear Lillian,

Another option might be a picture by Charles Brierley-Howes, a former Christ's Hospital master who has invented a technique for deriving paintings from photographs and has 35 such images of CH for sale. Go to http://www.hybrid-artworks.com and click on "Christ's Hospital".

In my time (early and middle Seventies) the rules were carefully concealed. When I was a junior, a rather selective document called 'An Interpretation of School Rules for Use in Junior Houses' was put in the junior house Quiet Rooms. Apart from that we were kept in the dark throughout our careers. T...

Nearly eighty in all, and quite a range:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:C ... _Old_Blues

postwarblue wrote:Both Massen and van Praagh had been away in uniform for the War - were either there before 1939?

Yes – Massen was appointed in 1928 and Van Praagh in 1933.

Katharine wrote:Why was she honoured?

For charitable services (she was Director General of the Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales for sixteen years).

That obituary is a condensed version of this one, which appeared in The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/st ... 49,00.html

Mid A 15 wrote:Wasn't there an Old Blue who became President of the MCC now I think about it?

Yes - it was the above-mentioned Dennis Silk.

He also chaired the TCCB. See his Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Silk

Interesting to see it was T N Pearce (MaA 17-22, Governor), captain of Essex, who recruited Dodds for that club.

You could probably reach him c/o the Redbeck Press, publishers of his recent book A Different Kind of Smoke, whose address is 24 Aireville Road, Frizinghall, Bradford BD9 4HH. Tel: 01274 498 135.

J.R. wrote:Does that prat wearing glasses still stand at the front, conducting ?

I most certainly do, yes. And how dare you call me a prat??

kerrensimmonds wrote:It's hard to see how anyone could blame CH for their overspending in later life.

If I remember rightly, Leigh Hunt did.

Pete Hayes (Maine B & Mid B 1967-?73) lost some toes in Alaska, says Howard Holdsworth on this page:
http://www.chforum.com/php/viewtopic.ph ... 118914473f

Sounds adventurous. What's the story?

also another David whom was at CH at least part of the time I was there. I only knew him by sight as he was in different forms and houses. I vaguely remember him being in Coleridge A. I also think he became known as Tewson - Kenworthy. Memory could be playing tricks though. This was David Hope Telf...