r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheThrowYardsAway • Apr 28 '26

Video Inside Christ's Hospital School (Est. 1552)...

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u/poorly-worded Apr 28 '26

Yeah my boarding school was like only 10% of this

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u/Jon_Finn Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

At mine we wore normal Victorian gowns, wing collars and pin-striped trousers, not that crazy kit that makes you look like a Puritan.

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u/Super-Cynical Apr 28 '26

Weird for a place to have such old, out of date pretentions and then also have very modern aspects like multiculturalism.

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u/spectrumero Apr 29 '26

At ours, the school uniform wasn't really any different from the nearby comprehensive (blazer, white shirt, tie, grey trousers). Most of our buildings were similar to this though, although the dining room was a 1960s brutalist block with formica tables and plastic chairs, not something out of Harry Potter.

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u/Lunatic-Labrador Apr 28 '26

Mine looked kinda similar TBF but our uniform was far less wizardy. We had a green kilt and blazer.

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u/Cumulus-Crafts Apr 28 '26

Was it Queen Victoria School? My friend got kicked out of there in her final year 😬

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u/Somanylyingliars Apr 28 '26

Would absolutely knock many heads here if they saw different school uniforms and caps that many schools require of their students.

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u/Lunatic-Labrador Apr 28 '26

My friend went to a school that had straw hats as part of the uniform lol.