Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I suddenly remembered over the weekend that Burr called the woodburning stove in his narrow boat 'The Very Sod' - as in Good King Wenceslas, 'Heat was in the' etc. etc.

Now THAT is a double entendre, good and proper.

95% sure Simon Wilson (? son of Roger Wilson, Staff) got a Blue in goal for Hockey for Cambridge in the mid 80s. Given how inept we were at men's hockey it isn't a surprise our only Blue in living memory was a keeper - he'd have had a lot of practice...

This is simply incredible; I don't know what to say. We learn yesterday that Webb had already been convicted and done time for an offence committed against a CH pupil. I may have missed it (I can't imagine how I could have) in which case I apologise, but I can't remember any communication from the s...

In 1979 at university I met a fellow undergrad who had been at the school Burr taught at after he left CH. His unprompted concerns at Burr's behaviour there echoed the rumours that circulated CH during Burr's time at Horsham. This has worried me greatly for nearly 40 years now - was Burr warned off ...