Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Norman Wisdom's biographer (Norman Wisdom, A Career in Comedy, T C Farries & Co, 1991) is an Old Blue, Richard Dacre (BaA, MdA 1961-67).

Now where's that recent photo of Richard Ruck? There's no call to get yourself all impatient and flustered, Master Bingo. Here it is, a mere six months after you demanded it: http://web.archive.org/web/20071016135122/http://www.chassociation.org/img/board/richard.jpg Doesn't this prove once and for...

The Yorkshire Post report is here:
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArt ... ID=1321914

According to the British Columbia Founder’s Day report in The Old Blue, their senior member Douglas Brodie (PeB 14-18) celebrated his 103rd birthday in October.

I think one of my (near) contemporaries was at Horsham for a while. She was a Doctor, whether she was the Doc there or married to a member of staff I don't know. Her name was Deirdre Pallister at Hertford, but I have no idea of her married name. Deirdre Pallister (2's 1969-76) married Michael Overe...

I'm afraid I always thought he was a sinister character. He used to give boys electric shocks and show them frightening photographs of Hermione Gingold.

"Governors' nominees" is a new one on me. Surely Governors didn't nominate, they presented? Hence "Governors' presentees". In my years at CH (1960s/70s) the Almoners' Nominees were the pupils who had not been presented - whether by Governors or by organisations with presentation ...

That photo appears at the foot of this webpage, with the caption: "MR BARDOU IN A BERET HA HA x :0P now this was funny!"

It's high time someone answered this question. Has anybody actually seen any of the Old Blue Vets since their foolhardy journey to Esher? I tried to stop them going, really I did.

Spoonbill, as you know, men and women are, well, um, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, they have one or two ingredients that perhaps don’t always, er, I expect you’ve scratched your head from time to time about how mummies and daddies, or possibly you’ve been in the show...

The smells of CH always bring back memories for me. Visited the Counting House earlier in the year, and that distinctive smell brought memories back. The smell of fresh polish on the long wooden dormitory floors always said start-of-term to me. Funny how smell brings back memories of feelings so mu...