Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Jude wrote:were you allowed your own pj's???? (see dodgy hygiene practices!)

I only remember people wearing those vile flowery nighties. I'm presuming from that that we were not allowed our own pjs as surely no one would have chosen to wear the nighties! We did wear our own at Horsham though.

Ya know, Hertford sounds like it was a riot! God I wish I had a sister so I could have had regular updates

soc wrote:Ya know, Hertford sounds like it was a riot!

lol - anything BUT a riot I would say Looking back I don't know how we put up with it to be honest.

So which was more fun? Horsham or Hertford? Or were they too different to be able to compare?
I dunno questions questions

soc wrote:So which was more fun? Horsham or Hertford?

I don't remember having much fun at Hertford but i do at Horsham

They were very different I would say - the whole atmosphere at Horsham was so different - more laid back. And apart from that, Horsham was vast. Hertford was a pretty small site really - and we were fenced in by barbed wire and broken bottles on the surrounding wall Say no more.

I would imagine far to diferent to compare!

I remember sewing in the nametapes for my son when he went to CH - along the long part of the Y front pants - up til then he had never worn Y fronts - we soon moved over to boxers though and we still has some of those on the go (yes even now 9 years later) with the CH name tapes in!

Hertford was very frumpy really. Home clothes got worn after school on a Sat and after chapel on a Sun - I think we had evensong as well - so ew had to change again!

Help! I am going mad!

englishangel wrote:When I was there, Judy Furnival and Gaye (Rosemary) who seems to have disappeared again were the only ones who COULD climb a rope.

Thank you Mary, thank you .

While at CH my self-esteem was so low, even lower than my level of fitness, that I believed (and still did until I read your post) that I was the only person incapable of such a deed.

Maybe I'm not the failure I think I am .

We had the jumpsuits. I think they came in in about '69. They were sort of stretchy towelling and so tight as to be indecent. OK if you were a size 10 I suppose, but as I was a well endowed 14 they weren't MY fave item of clothing.

We also had blues and blue (not yellow) aertex shirts.

Caroline, there was no way I could climb a rope, but for some reason I was very good at vaulting (the leapfrog sort) and can still vault the bollards in Tesco's carpark (if no-one is watching).

Jude wrote:Hertford was very frumpy really. Home clothes got worn after school on a Sat and after chapel on a Sun - I think we had evensong as well - so ew had to change again!

You were lucky - home clothes were worn for the Founder's Day Dance (no boys there - you had to sign up to dance or sit out with staff members) - and that was it until the day you left school.

And there was me thinking we were under a repressive regime!

I wish you would all stop posting about those b****y ropes! To my dying day I will remember the sheer horror of standing on the high box and having to jump off and catch a rope being swung towards me.
As for wearing our own clothes a) we still had clothes rationing and b) I never had many clothes anyway so I was glad we all had to wear uniform, even for the Founders Day dance (and if you haven't had to do the programme for one of the more unpopular members of staff you have no right to complain about anything EVER.

i was there with Hannoir, dont recall faith being any issue except most seem to have no faith rather than any form of it

midget wrote:I wish you would all stop posting about those b****y ropes! To my dying day I will remember the sheer horror of standing on the high box and having to jump off and catch a rope being swung towards me.
As for wearing our own clothes a) we still had clothes rationing and b) I never had many clothes anyway so I was glad we all had to wear uniform, even for the Founders Day dance (and if you haven't had to do the programme for one of the more unpopular members of staff you have no right to complain about anything EVER.

Too true!! I can't remember when the dance ended, but it was during my time so not many here will remember it!

Midget mentioned the dance once before, I had wondered when it stopped.

We didn't do anything special for Founder's Day AFAIR.

These dances you ladies mention, were they formal affairs?
I remember Miss Gracie, our house matron, offering to teach me to dance, I was the fastest lad in school that day!