Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

The painting has been mentioned in The Blue from time to time. Apparently there was a detailed account of it in the September 1963 edition (don't have a copy, unfortunately). At the Barbican in 1987 a not-quite-exact replica (painted by Tissot himself, and loaned by the Layton Collection of Milwauke...

Jo wrote:I wonder if it's possible to get hold of her original work - probably not if it's unpublished.

Apparently the manuscript is in Brunel University Library, Jo. Stephen Rose used extracts from it in The Intellectual Life of the British Working Class (Yale University Press, 2001).

I very much regret to say that John Ddungu (CH 05-07) was found dead in his room at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, on 27 February. His mother pays tribute to him in this press report: http://www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk/latestnews/Exclusive-Gifted-South-Norwood-student-dead-bed/article-749687-detail/ar...

Sadly Patrick Cullen (Horsham Staff 54-87) , one of the most amiable teachers at CH in my day, died in January aged 81. Reportedly there will be no memorial service at CH, but there will be one, to which everyone is welcome, on Saturday 18 April at 2.30pm in the parish church at East Knoyle, Wilts. ...

Good to see that overnight the number of signatures rose above 1,000.

This report appeared in the Hendon Times on Friday:

http://www.hendontimes.co.uk/display.va ... street.php

Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but I haven't been able to find any references to it, and time is now short: Last week saw the fifth anniversary of the deeply troubling death of Jerry Duggan (ThA 92-99) , so often examined in the pages of The Blue and The Old Blue over the past five years....

Just sent you a personal message, Chris.

Ian,

Hope to send you a pm in a day or two.

Rex

Thanks, cj - appreciated.

Yes, Julian, very glad to know you're all right.

Thanks, Andy. It's been an enjoyable couple of days, with various Old Blues mixed into the brew.

At 8pm Mark Thomas (ColB 74-81) exposes the misdeeds of Coca-Cola, and at 9pm there's a repeat of the rather good Time Team Special on the Gothic architect and designer Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (Non-Foundationer 1820s).

Charles Lynam, writer of the letter, went on to a notable career as an architect (and archaeologist, magistrate, alderman and mayor) in Stoke-on-Trent, living into his nineties.

http://web.archive.org/web/200302192313 ... harles.htm

Carl, I've just attempted to send you a pm. If it doesn't arrive, let me know.