Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Start of the Autumn term, 1954.

This must be our first day, with our "nursemaids" who have probably just taught us how to pin our bands.

Nursemaids at the back: Pearl, Ashton, Hawkins
Squits in the front row: Wexler, Liles, Blogg
That's what I wrote on the back of the photo at the time, but now, with an uncertain and fading memory, I doubt one of those names.

Paterson and Brown also joined Col A at the same time, but they were, I think, moving up from the Prep, so they perhaps needed no nursemaid.



For lots more photos from CH in that era, see https://flic.kr/s/aHsjtQd7FT - but most readers of this forum have probably seen them already.

Hawkins is one I don't remember.
You are right; if you came up from the Prep you were shoved in on your own and for you etc the nursemaids would have been pretty useless- indeed as Trades Mon I don't think I appointed any. In the Prep they were with you for almost a week. You are referring to Ken Brown - he was a year behind me.