Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I agree with the previous comments.

A quick review of the staff list shows two masters who joined around 1982/3

Frank McKenna Manual School
Sean O'Boyle Maths, Assistant Head

Both are thoroughly decent men.

I suspect their length of service is heading for one of the all time records.

https://nowmynews.blogspot.com/2020/11/ ... s.html?m=1

Not dormitories but study bedrooms these days.

Could one of the more enlightened members of this forum please explain to me why they are so confident that with current safeguarding it couldn't happen again?

Going back to Roger Allam, as I started this detour(and I agree with all the previous comments and concerns, just don't have a thank button available): The only reason I have ever heard of a number of these famous OBs (Magee etc)is because I was at CH, otherwise Roger would never have been on my ra...

Going back to Roger Allam, as I started this detour(and I agree with all the previous comments and concerns, just don't have a thank button available): The only reason I have ever heard of a number of these famous OBs (Magee etc)is because I was at CH, otherwise Roger would never have been on my rad...

harryh wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 10:56 pm

Avon wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2014 2:50 pm

fra828 wrote:CH is described as a charity school.

Well, when he was there - it was.

Still is

Presumably there is a tipping point for the Charity Commission?
I don't know what that threshold might be for the percentage of full fee payers?

Uncle Vanya: Will Gompertz reviews Chekhov's play on film ★★★★★ - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54518134

Our lot certainly weren't evangelicals

kerrensimmonds wrote: ↑Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:13 pm He's still got a beard. A very formal and upright character. He is Chair of the Caledonian Old Blues and I met him at their Founder's Day Lunch last month.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... whole.html

A DISUSED part of the route connecting the North and South Downs has been reopened. The missing section of the Downs Link on the old Guildford Railway Line between Mill Lane and Christ’s Hospital Station near Horsham is now safe to use for anyone wanting to travel off-road. Upgrades to the 1.4km sec...

A section between the North and South Downs has been restored from the CH station to Mill Lane on the Guildford branch.
Partly financed by the school.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1873293 ... al-school/

Quick update:

Webb: March 11th 2021
Martin: July 2021
Burr: May 2022
Karim: April 2023
Dobbie: July 2024
Husband: December 2026

And another one.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-53681417

Interesting to see that Hove Crown Court is open, as there is some doubt as to whether Webb's case will proceed on schedule at Lewes.

Little did I think when I innocently started the Politics site all those years ago that 78,000 people would come to view it, and that it would run to 48 pages (although of course some of that would have been fleshed out by the labyrinthine ramblings of Banker Brown). Ant and Dec would die for such ...

Ignorant, racist, both or neither? I very recently attended a chinese burial in Harlow for a friend who was born and bred there. Like all his siblings and cousins, he had been fluent in chinese and spoke english like any person born here. "We was going to go to the seaside but it rained" ...

Ignorant, racist, both or neither? I very recently attended a chinese burial in Harlow for a friend who was born and bred there. Like all his siblings and cousins, he had been fluent in chinese and spoke english like any person born here. "We was going to go to the seaside but it rained" I...