Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

To give you a taste, the opening paragraph reads: ...nor can one ever pass a strapping young Grecian in the streets without feeling some veneration for the successor of Coleridge and Charles Lamb, Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt. This needs to be nipped in the bud! Hazlitt, although a well-known associate o...

Can you copy/paste the article for those of us who don't have a Telegraph subscription? btw ajarn; that would constitute breach of copyright. Sadly true, I believe - but the obit to which Sejintenej has kindly linked covers most of the same ground; indeed the Telegraph writer evidently drew on it h...

Sebastian Andrew 'Sam' Mercer (Barnes A 1939-44) gets an admiring obituary in the Telegraph:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/ ... -obituary/

One year on, and Houseyblog is back in action again at the same address: http://trongon.blogspot.com For the past five weeks I've managed to update it every day, and I'll try to keep going at the same rate, at least for a while. As before, I'd appreciate it if people could keep my real name out of a...

I may well have missed some posts but the last I read was that it was unclear if Taio really was an Old Blue or not. He is not an old Blue. A member of my family works with him and can verify that! Thanks, Ian. May I quote you on that when my blog's up and running again - and, if so, may I use your...

(N.B.: Taio Cruz later confirmed to NOT be an Old Blue...Mod, Sep 22) I may well have missed some posts but the last I read was that it was unclear if Taio really was an Old Blue or not. That was the line I took in this piece I wrote about him in late 2009: http://trongon.blogspot.com/2009/11/not-o...

Some of you have probably heard of Frankmusik (Vincent Turner - I'm guessing his years were 97-05) According to the CHOBA office, he did indeed arrive in 1997, but he left in 2004. Apparently he was in Maine A & Grecians East. Trongon: is there any way of downloading Mgr Bruce Harbert's piece? ...

Excellent idea, Matt. Good luck with it.

Meanwhile there are several dozen YouTube videos of Old Blues to be enjoyed at my blog: http://trongon.blogspot.com.

Forty years ago the census was run by an Old Blue:

http://trongon.blogspot.com/2011/03/rec ... umour.html

Just wanted to let you all know that my unofficial blog about Old Blues is up and running again at http://trongon.blogspot.com/. The links page needs extensive repairs, but these are in progress, and I'm gradually working my way through a hefty backlog of emails. If anyone wishes to comment on this ...