Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Definitely girls in the band from the beginning. I thought Dave Elliott saw this as a 'must'.

Certainly when I was in the band there were loads of girls in it.

jhopgood wrote:Certainly at the last Speech Day there were a good number of girls in the band. The lead trumpet was a girl and very good too.I have proof as I videoed some of it to show my village band what a real band should look and sound like.
The village band age spread is about the same as CH, 10-21, with me being the exception.

............ and I'm told she was a pretty good trumpet player, as well, John !!

On a serious note ---- Look at the still existing military bands. LOADS of serving female service staff these days.

Great Plum wrote:

jtaylor wrote:Girls in the band from 1985, the year of the merger, my first year at CH.

*snipity snip*

Only girls can play the cymbals. The band captain on my year was a girl! There have been lots of girls in the CH band for as long as I remember...

why???

I refuse to get into the male v female debate. I don't understand sexism and I never will, or racism come to that.

Maybe it's because the term OB to me means Old Boys........ think about it - We girls wre never Old Blues we were Christ's Hospital Old GIRLS Association - hence teh problem in my poor dememted brain....

see other threads - am having a slight p[rob with MS at the mo - things are going adrift in my brain as well in body!

When I first visited Horsham there was a huge emphasis on the BOYS Marching BAND - so I have probably pulled that forwards and not left it in the past - I'm sorry. Anyhow, I would have thought any large breasted girl might have problems with teh cymbals - I think I would end up wuith a tit sarnie - copper plated!

I''l stick to clarinets, trying to remember souza's march and getting hte right foot in the right place!

englishangel wrote:I refuse to get into the male v female debate. I don't understand sexism and I never will, or racism come to that.

.... or ageism, or any other ism which impinges (including pingeism of which it is an anagram) on me or any of my friends (John's Hog at Guildford only excepted)

ok - so instead of Olb blues, old boys whatever - we should in fact rename ourselves as






OLD B*****S!

argh I got censored...


old

bu g ers!!

Jude wrote:argh I got censored...


old

bu g ers!!

Surely the only acknowledged old bugler around is JR

'OGS perhaps?? .... that would cover Hogs and Dogs as well as any Old Girls.

by the way - what was the question to the poll?????


(yes I know, I'm a little hard of reading at present!)

the boys all call themselves old blues so that's good enough for me.

Of course. No gender issues whatsoever. I thought all CH female alumni were Old Blues anyway

yes but an old blue is an older policeman.....

men in blue????

The school has traddition of longcoats of bluecoats - so sureley they should be Old long coats or old blue coats

OLC / OBC /

Why can't we be CH'ers?

Millfield has old Milfieldians
Wycliffe has old Wycliffians
Old Chirst hospitalians?????

I'm happy to consider myself an Old Blue, and have done for years. I prefer it to Old Girl. Are the alumni of any other school known as Old Blues?

When I was in the VI form we creased ourselves with laughter at the headline in a Sunday paper of a rugby report: Old Blues are Fast and Persistent

Wow - what at????!!!

I'm not fast at anything - maybe persistant though!!