Welcome to the unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum - for discussing everything CH/Old Blue related. All pupils, parents, families, staff, Old Blues and anyone else related to CH are welcome to browse the boards, register and contribute.
Share your memories and stories from your days at school, and find out the truth behind the rumours....Remember the teachers and pupils, tell us who you remember and why...
jtaylor wrote: Computing was certainly regarded as a very very geeky thing - little did people know how important computers would become and how essential to most careers a basic PC knowledge is these days.
J
Not to mention being essential for slagging off everyone and everything.
huntertitus wrote: I well remember Torkington's first day
The first time we gave new teachers the eyeball was in chapel and as soon as we saw his odd gait and nervous attitude we knew we had a victim in our midst
The maniacal laughter when one term he came in.......with a BEARD!
I will never forget the derision - the hyena laughter
Poor man - I wonder if he ever recovered
When I was at C.H. last week I was surprised to nearly bump into him, cycling down the cloisters.
No idea - did you say CYCLING DOWN THE CLOISTERS???
That would have been a caneable offence in the good old days of corporal punishment, matrons baths, horsehair mattresses, bolsters, jolly good bullying, and a chilly march to breakfast to the bugle band whose players were executed by hanging if they got their hands frozen onto their bugles.
