Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I had a pretty staggering co-incidence when I was a law student. I was working as a taxi driver to pay my way through Law School in the summer between the two courses, and I picked up a customer who took some stuff from a house to his market stall by my taxi. A couple of weeks later I was clerking i...

Jabod, a quibble: There ain't no such thing as 'accentless'. What you presumably mean is that your accent is that of your social surroundings, so it doesn't stand out as 'different'. What I mean is lack of recognisable specific regional accent. You can tell where I'm not from. I would describe my d...

Your video was interesting, and as one who was at CH around a decade before you, I am appalled at how it seems to have done nothing to improve after my time. I left the year before the Hertford merger and those (and by far the majority) of good teachers were going on about the new safeguards that wo...

Sounds like a pea-dough's dream.

'If you leave the building, I will report you for breaching the rules.'

Early 1980s: From the UF we could go into Horsham, and buy such exotic food as Pot Noodles, beef and tomato a real treat with the ketchup far less sour than CH's offering that went with the fish fingers on Friday lunch. The main ruse at around 17 was to go in wearing cricket gear (which was permitte...

I distinctly remember two identical twins at CH in the early 1980s, one of whom I believe was eventually a school monitor and his brother (a button Grecian) wasn't, and the only person who could tell them apart was their elder brother (also at CH). Memory is foggy but perhaps the surname was Moore, ...

I came to CH from southeast London in the late 1970s, by my Yorkshire relatives accounts I had a strong (incomprehensible) south London accent at that age (think Jim Davidson). I left CH with what many now regard as a 'posh' RP accent, which I have kept. I recall only a few boys retaining their loca...

Fertii wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:54 am I have a newspaper cutting but don't know how to upload it here...my bad. Says it was about money and admission procedures...

Yes, money, the cost to the School of owning up to a few of its employees' deeds (tarnishing the rest) and admitting what had gone on.

I have just seen this obit in the DT for an Old Blue of whom I am ashamed to say I had not heard, he pioneered work on steroids for treating asthma, quite appropriate really given the role CH had in developing my and a fair few fellow pupils asthma with its horsehair mattresses, but at least CH had ...

In my time, 1978-85, the 'academic' Button Grecians did read Grace, but thinking back less frequently than Monitors. There never seemed to be any particular order to it, and it should be noted that anyone getting their buttons and reading grace for the first time was always greeted with a cheer, an ...

I remember a Sikh chap in my year, who I shall not name in the age of traceability as he had quite a distinctive name and he got a lot of stick whilst at CH, although he was generally liked and respected for his intellect, when he got his buttons once in place of the grace pronounced something that ...

It is a certain irony that the predominant German terror weapon, which although directed was not guided and had an element of randomness (understood to be part of the terror effect) would land relatively harmlessly on the former school of Barnes Wallis, whilst his Tallboys and Grand Slams were bring...

I have never heard of this, having been at CH 1978-85, when some at the school (e.g. Mr Kirby) would have been WW2 veterans and might well have had tales to tell or re-tell. I am suprised it wasn't more of a story, it must have left some form of crater visible even today.

From memory, and I have wracked my brains over the years without success, but seeing this reminds me, I would remove 'that' after 'table'. I could recite the one for before without even thinking, but got a bit stuck half way through the second! I found this after a search here, but I'm not certain o...

How does CH split up as regards degrees? Is there a pattern here? Arts, Literature, Humanities, Classics, Modern Languages or the STEM disciplines? From my time, mid-1980s, I certainly felt that CH regarded the science A-levels (and science degrees) as rather unworthy, despite there being two scien...