Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 13:34:09 -0800

It is still a school and it is the school that I attended in the UK!
It is a 'blue coat' school. Founded after Henry had dissolved
the places occupied by large collections of clergy. 
Every year there is a city of London parade for the Lord Mayor
of London and the Christ's Hospital boys march in that.
It is a tough, old school! A kind of poor person's [charity] public 
school, which in Britain means a private school....

Your Coleridge signature reminded me of school days.

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 94 13:39:27 -0800

On Christ's Hospital - they just taught sadistic bullying in my day, no
poetry sadly. You would like the uniform, though. That is pre-Coleridge-ian.
[And to this day it is worn!].

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 94 18:07:48 -0800

Some other famous old boys...

Leigh-Hunt
Maine
Barnes
[And Barnes Wallis!]
Lamb
Coleridge
Middleton
Thornton

and Peele

...

I am quite pleased that I can remember, if not spell them, at all. They 
are now the names of the 'houses' that the boys live in.

The boys wear 16th century uniform: Long dark blue coats, breeches,
and a 'bib' [called bands]. The boys and girls school recently merged
[long after my days there]. At the time of the merger the girls were 
dressed in 'modern' [ie. non-16th century uniforms]. For some bizarre 
reason the governors decided to dress the girls in blue coats like the
boys [probably to save money]. Now to someone who spent a good portion
of their youth dressed in those weird clothes that looks like
some weird form of transvestitism.... It would probably look that way
to anyone from the time when those clothes were more common.

...........recollections...... !

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